Description:
Allison is a former middle school teacher, turned Bar Method instructor, after finding the workout while attending grad school, in San Francisco, CA. She came to The Bar Method, looking for a way to get in better shape, but it quickly grew to be more. In Bar class, she found refuge from the stress of balancing grad school, city life, and teaching full time, in what was becoming an increasingly toxic environment. Eventually, she would quit her middle school teaching career altogether, and obtain certification to become a Bar Method instructor, sharing with others the greater love and admiration she gained for her body, through strengthening the mind-body connection.
More Topics In The Episode:
- Allison’s introduction to The Bar Method
- How and why going to class became her “place of refuge”
- Self-care that engages the whole body and mind, is effective stress management, and “addictive” in a good way!
- Career burnout. When the emotional and mental health toll of the “steady and safe” career path, became greater than the fear of the unknown.
- The “risk/reward” factor. Quitting her job in education, and becoming an instructor of The Bar Method.
- When you want to make your passion your career “path,” what to do first!
- The hard work of turning your “passion into your path.”
- How her career in education translates to fitness instructing
- The benefits of choosing an exercise practice you love, that can also serve as a form of meditation.
- Her thoughts on how “body love” flows from greater body-awareness
- When the communication between body and mind becomes stronger, the voice of self-hatred gets quieter
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