Gratitude

Moving in Gratitude & some of my personal ‘GRATEFULS’

We are now really in the Metal Element season which focuses on refinement, breathe, and allowing what doesn't serve to fall away.

If you want to revisit the whole 5 Element wheel through the seasons check out this blog post here and consider how you connect in your workout practice (and whole life for that matter!) to the energetic shifts and movement of the seasons.

Our theme for the month of November (think of it as a mindful movement intention) is Moving in Gratitude! I am so grateful for you showing up to your CoreSelf practice each and every week, sharing your journey, and growing together. Most evenings around the dinner table my kids and I share our “gratefuls” for the day… and the gratefuls range all over the place honestly! But the ritual of pausing and sharing is the greatest value.

Some of my many gratefuls these days include:
- The use of the towel in the mat work (I’m just crazy about it!)

- The three potent phases of life transitions: true endings, the in between smooshy time, and then new beginnings.

- That I began CoreSelf & video creation long before covid/shutdowns/big changes. My original videos on youtube I made and put out there in 2010!, then launched CoreSelf in early 2018! I feel comfortable in filming, editing, sharing, evolving… I am so grateful for where I’ve been as a Pilates mover/teacher and also where I’m going…

- I am SUPER grateful that we, together, have kept CHISEL ALIVE! Chisel is nothing short of magic - for first timers and those who’ve been sliding planks with me for years. And Chisel really lights up in a full room of sweating, smiling people all moving together with music and big energy. The realities have changed, but TOGETHER we have kept the spark of Chisel glowing, burning, growing and lighting us all up from the inside out, through the screen connection, and in person in smaller numbers! So… thank YOU!

- I’m grateful that I gave myself permission to evolve and make the hard choice of closing Clasique. Clasique was another baby for me ~ you know all the birthing, supporting, growing, and finally releasing metaphors in there! Twelve years is so many to be enmeshed in a brand, a business, a role. And I can feel that it is always in me and with me. That entrepreneurial process has been so formative and exciting. And the connections we made in community will always be so genuine and meaningful. With all the love, I am also grateful I listened to my inner knowing and saw the truths that led me to let it go. Regardless of how challenging endings can be.

- I’m grateful for the flipping internet! Because it let’s us work together, workout together, whether we are east coast, west coast, europe, south america, mountains or oceanside. I love that we are all together, all over the world!

Alright alright, thank you for reading. What is one of your gratefuls?
Share with me, share with our community on the IG or inside the FB community. Much love y’all!
xo Brooke