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Beginner’s Workout #17: featuring Erin Sabin

April 17, 2011 by

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Here is a series of exercises using your body weight and core strength.  Perform all exercises in proper form with your shoulders down away from your ears, your spine in neutral and your core engaged.  Unless otherwise noted your feet will be planted hip distance apart and parallel.  Do 2-4 sets of these exercises, 8-15 […]

Body/Mind Perspective: Alternate Nostril Breathing

April 17, 2011 by

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ALTERNATE NOSTRIL BREATHING Alternate Nostril Breathing is a breath exercise (pranayam) that brings balance to both the left and right sides of the brain. It also balances out our emotions. Research shows that we don’t breathe evenly through both nostrils and this helps us overcome our dominance over one side. 1) Sit comfortably with your […]

Doggone Crazy!

February 27, 2011 by

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Michele John, certified Genesis Coach I used to read labels to see how many calories were in a particular food, because I was dieting and I needed to count every calorie that was consumed in a given day.  Now my world is about reading labels for the content of what the particular product has in […]

The Value of a Coach

January 30, 2011 by

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Courtney Townley If you are looking for clear instructions on how to take care of your body, you have, no doubt, found yourself thrashing around in a pool of misinformation and extreme dieting techniques. It often seems like a cruel joke that everything in your life has an instruction manual, except for the one thing […]

Jackson Hole ‘Magic in Support’

January 30, 2011 by

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“It’s a tried and true maxim of behavior that people support what they create”-Margaret Wheatley Jackson Hole Genesis Coaches Michele John and Jayne Ottman know that the best way for their clients to build ownership and accountability for their actions is to ask them to be part of creating their fat loss process; to experience […]

Doing This Thing Called Genesis Transformation

January 30, 2011 by

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Cary Jo Hofstad, Genesis Coach It has been said that the hardest step to take in a journey is the first step. In the past “going on a diet” might have seemed easy since in our minds it is a temporary adjustment in our life to get to the weight we have in mind. To […]

Client Story: Beliefs and Beginnings

January 2, 2011 by

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S.K. All of us have our own distinctive story and I have been persuaded to reflect on mine. Perhaps sharing my story will empower someone. I began working with Genesis Transformation a year ago. Prior to that I had taken a class called Women on Weights. I wanted to get stronger in my yoga practice […]

Put Yourself on Your To-Do List

January 2, 2011 by

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Cary Jo Hofstad, Genesis Coach ‘PUT YOURSELF ON YOUR TO-DO LIST’ I heard this somewhere and love it. How many of us have a list of things to do, people to see or call, and appointments to keep? Do we put ourselves on that list? I learned this the hard way a few years ago. […]

New Beginnings: The New Year’s Resolution

January 2, 2011 by

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Erin Sabin, Genesis Coach Welcome 2011! 2010 has come and gone and 2011 is laid out like a blank training journal. It is no surprise that as the New Year begins, we begin to reminisce on the days behind us and look forward to what is to come; hence NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS. I have always […]

Sheri’s Rants # 49: Deprivation and Perspective

December 28, 2010 by

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Folks with dieting histories tend to talk about deprivation quite a bit. That’s because historically diets are about eating a very limited range of (frequently non-) foods, and eating very little.   So between the hunger of a suffering metabolism and the limited range of food choices, all sorts of negative emotion comes up.   […]