At Passion Barre and Karingah, we developed the Transformation Challenge as a MAJOR boost to long-term results! Former challenge winners and participants have mastered new habits, lost 5-7 inches on their waist line, 25 pounds in one challenge season, gotten a bill of better health from their doctor, and beaten depression.
Featuring team support, mind-setting, goal-setting, nutrition consulting, resources, accountability, prizes, and oh yeah, you’ve given us permission to get in your business (:
Alternatively you can opt to join the challenge through attendance only – 24 times in 7 weeks, or “Twice is Nice” (commit to twice a week for those 7 weeks). Showing up IS half the battle.
So, the more you show up, the more you see results; the more is given and more captives get set free.
Prizes vary per challenge season, but oh yes, pampering is involved!
$25 commitment fee with regular Passion Barre by Karingah! class package or lifestyle membership.
Did I hear you say bring it on? Click here to sign up.
P.S. If it’s been too long or you haven’t had a chance to try our Passion Barre classes yet, we’d love to host you in class. The sweet after burn has been spreading like a wildfire since we brought the barre to Rancho Cucamonga! Click here to reserve your trial class, still complimentary this month.
In Southern California, we serve Rancho Cucamonga, Upland, Fontana, Ontario, Claremont, Montclair, Corona, Eastvale, Mira Loma, Riverside, Pomona and other surrounding cities. See you at the Barre 🙂
Engage with the possibilities today:
Erase, Start Over. …Now.
-Passion Barre
Laughter, that is. It simply is contagious, and one of my favorite things to at the barre during a workout 🙂
So we’d like to share a bit more on the power of what you’re experiencing and sharing when you laugh.
Humor is infectious. The sound of roaring laughter is far more contagious than any cough, sniffle, or sneeze. When laughter is shared, it binds people together and increases happiness and intimacy. Laughter also triggers healthy physical changes in the body. – www.helpguide.org
Many of us might be familiar with the quote from the book of Proverbs 17:22 that says “A merry (or joyful) heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones” especially as we discover more on how literal this is.
And as much as we appreciate the truth about it, what many struggle with is how to get that merry heart. I mean who doesn’t want a merry, healthy heart, and strong body?
At Passion Barre and Karingah! we sometimes talk about laughing at all costs, even when you don’t feel like it. During a Barre workout class, for instance, we might say, in the middle of a burn, “smile, instead of grimacing… it’ll send stronger signals that something good is happening to your body, haha!”
And in a Karingah! class, during all the shaking and sweating, we call it the Shake and Laughter theory: Laughing naturally causes your body to shake; and shaking on purpose causes the silliness to make you laugh – especially with a bunch of people. So you can perk up your day or moment by laughing on purpose.
But seriously, what happens when you’re really feeling down or neutral? The presence of those feelings could make it really hard to make that switch. The good thing to remember is that switches (changing your state) are very possible, but first with a value statement and focus. How important is it for you to feel better, be healthier, flourish in your gifts, or be the leader in the room that can bring a life-giving change to others around you? Also remind yourself that feelings are followers. They follow the strongest influence at the time. Influence is created by thoughts, decisions and actions. Are you willing to lead, change your mind and take action by doing something as simple as focusing on a new thought and smiling?
Another quotation on laughter infrequently used in this present context is found in the book of Ecclesiastes 3:4 “[There is] A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance…”
All things being equal, this line is quite self-explanatory… except for those times when it seems like weeping and mourning could go on and on; or some situations present no hope. So you can decide that although it doesn’t seem like it, it a time to laugh instead. You can start with a smile 🙂
Humor and laughter strengthen your immune system, boost your energy, diminish pain, and protect you from the damaging effects of stress. Best of all, this priceless medicine is fun, free, and easy to use. – www.helpguide.org
Do visit this page here for a list of benefits to your health when you laugh, and also a list of things to do, to trigger laughter.
And in the spirit of “sharing” and “like buttons,” go ahead and share good health, and laugh! it’s contagious.
The more you think about it, the more it grows. Choose your focus. What do you want to grow?
1. Reduce processed sugars and high sodium intake, then load up on real vegetables with some fruit instead
2. Hydrate daily by drinking (water) half of your body-weight in ounces. e.g. If you weigh 160 pounds, you would drink 80 ounces of water- that’s 10 measured cups (a cup is 8 ounces, and tall dinner glasses usually contain about two actual measured cups).
Infuse with some mint leaves, cucumber slices, a squeeze of lemon or splash of organic Apple Cider Vinegar to help you enjoy drinking water and detox while you’re at it.
3. Eat more protein. A lot of women, especially, may not get enough protein in their diet. If this is you, start with half of your weight in grams. e.g if you weighed 160 pounds, start by consuming 80 grams of protein daily.
Top Booty Exercise #1: PLIES IN SECOND
A Plie is a “bend” in Ballet terminology. We can’t get enough of it’s simplicity in our Passion Barre classes.This is the exercise to add definition and shape to your butt, and narrow your thighs. Start by standing with your legs slightly more than shoulder-width apart and your toes pointed out to the sides. This is a called “second position”. For balance, hold your arms in front of you. While keeping your back and torso upright and straight (no leaning over or poking of the booty backwards) slowly lower your bottom to the ground until your thighs are parallel to the floor. Hold this for five seconds and stand back up. Repeat 8 times.
Now repeat the whole sequence, but as you hold your plié, add tiny 1-inch range pulses up and down.
Top Booty Exercise #2: HIP LIFT (BRIDGE)
A great exercise to work your glute muscles is the hip lift. To do this exercise, lie on the floor with your back flat, knees bent, and feet resting on the ground. While keeping your arms at your sides on the floor, lift your bottom and lower back off of the floor. Hold for a few seconds, and then slowly lower yourself. Repeat. To work your muscles even more, lift a leg in the air when you raise your bottom off the ground. Lower yourself and then repeat, lifting the other leg.
Now repeat the whole sequence, but as you hold your bottom and lower back of the floor, add tiny pulsing lifts. Ooh yeah!
Top Booty Exercise #3: LEG LIFT
To do a leg lift, lie on your side and prop yourself up on your elbow. Raise your top leg slowly into the air, as high as you can, so your legs make a “V” shape. Hold for a few seconds, and then slowly lower your leg. Repeat 8 times, turn onto the other side, and lift the other leg.
Now repeat the whole sequence, and add 1-inch range pulses to your lifted leg.
Top Booty Exercise #4: LUNGE
An amazing exercise that targets the muscles of your butt, thighs, and hips is the lunge. Putting one foot out in front of the other, lower your body toward the ground, keeping your abdominals tight and your torso straight. Lower until the front knee is bent at 90 degrees and not extended past your toes. Stand back up and then extend the opposite leg and bend. Perform 8 repetitions. For an increased workout, hold dumbbells in each hand.
Repeat and try these with tiny pulses as well.
Top Booty Exercise #5: BANDED SHUFFLE
This is a great exercise to get your heart pumping and work your buns. To do this exercise, you’ll need an elastic sports band. Stand up straight with your legs hip-width apart and tie the band around your lower legs. Squat down until your thighs are parallel to the floor, your back is straight, and your abdominals are tight. While in this squatting position, take several steps to the left, then several to the right. You may need to use your arms for balance, but your butt muscles should feel a workout.
ALSO, DID YOU KNOW?:
Running or walking outside or on the treadmill are other great exercises that work your butt while giving you a cardio workout to burn fat at the same time. Make it your goal to exercise 30 to 45 minutes at least three times a week, including walking or running each time.
Burn, Baby, Burn! Remember to stretch after doing these. There are more where these came from, but these 5 exercises are excellent ways to burn extra fat off the booty while adding the definition you desire. Not used to working your gluteal muscles? You’ll definitely feel the burn the first few days, but the end result will be worth the effort!
The one and only way to reshape your body (and your booty) is with a combination of blast cardio exercises in a form you will enjoy, a healthy diet, and the right resistance workouts targeted for the butt and thighs like those offered in our Passion Barre and Karingah! classes.
Here’s a reminder list of 14 of the top reasons to exercise, whether it’s at the barre or elsewhere. Numbers 13 and 14 get us pumped! The good news is, a lot of these are not a secret anymore. You can find variations of these everywhere. So pull out this list and read it when you need a reminder of why exactly what you do is worth your precious time…
1. To Ward off Disease
Exercise has been proven to reduce the risk of just about every single health problem known to man, from stroke to heart disease to cancer and osteoporosis. Exercise is also a great defense against type 2 diabetes, which is one of the most widely growing diseases of our time.
2. To Look and Feel Fabulous
Exercise firms your body, balances your body composition, improves posture and even makes your skin glow.
3. To Lose Fat and Keep It Off
Exercise burns fat and prevents future fat storage. If you want to have a leaner, healthier body, exercise is the answer.
4. To Gain Energy
Anyone who exercises regularly will tell you that they are more energetic, less easily irritated and are more peaceful.
5. To Sleep Better
Exercise boosts energy levels, but also wears you out.
6. To Slow the appearance of Aging
You’re going to get older. This is a GOOD thing. But exercise is one of the most effective ways to fight the appearance of aging. When you age your body could lose muscle and bone density, but the loss of both are drastically reduced with regular exercise.
7. To Relieve Back Pain
In most cases, the best thing that you can do for back pain is to move and strengthen those muscles and improve your posture- and you know we won’t let bad posture slip in a Passion Barre class. Consult your physician or physical therapist for guidance.
8. To Ease Depression
Exercise has been proven to reduce depression. Just chalk this up as yet another amazing benefit to exercise. And remember those thoughts we share on the floor? Show up to learn what to do with toxic thoughts!
9. To Reduce Aches and Pains
By strengthening muscles around damaged joints you’re able to use exercise to reduce joint pain and overall aches.
10. To Sharpen your Brain
Exercise has been shown to improve memory and other cognitive functions, and seems to have a protective effect against dementia. A Harvard University researcher called exercise “Miracle-Gro for the brain.”
11. To Reduce Sick Days
People who exercise regularly are 50% less likely to call in sick to work.
12. To Boost Confidence
Being fit, feeling healthy and having energy are all building blocks to having great confidence.
13. To Enjoy Your Lifestyle and Fulfill Destiny
Whatever your passion is in life – your family, travel, sports, work, fashion—it is all more enjoyable when experienced in a fit and healthy body.
14. Particularly at Passion Barre and Karingah – to Stimulate Freedom
Regular exercise gives you so many amazing benefits, as you’ve seen from the above list. And how much more a Passion Barre class designed exclusively to lift the booty; firm up the abs; define the arms and thighs; and strengthen the heart and mind?
All this while making life changing connections with other great ambassadors like yourself; and making your freedom and attendance count toward the rescue of women and children from sex slavery/human trafficking. This just lights our fire!
If you’re in the area, come visit or get started on a program that will breathe life into you.
FRIENDS REALLY DO COME WITH BENEFITS, and working out with the people you love can be so much fun (:
We have exciting things going on this month with the continuing Dance Series, Throwback Thursday, Girls’ Night Out and New Trampoline class times to jumpstart (no pun intended) your energy and fitness level or weight loss. So it’s time to spread the joy.
Refer three of your friends, family and co-workers and get a complimentary massage when two of them sign up for a Membership!
So bring a buddy and you could enjoy a massage.
Current clients with Unlimited Memberships, bring one complimentary guest per class 🙂 Just ask us for your guest passes.
Click here to learn more about the benefits of an Unlimited Lifestyle Membership
GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT
Join us for a beginner Salsa class, live music, and a chance to show off what you’ve learned in the Salsa part of our current Dance Series. Meet us September 19 at the beautiful Cuban Cocopalm Restaurant in Pomona.
You don’t have to attend the Dance Series on Thursdays to come out with us, but you still can. They’ve been so much fun!
Our Girls’ Night Out is open to everyone 21 and up.
Time: 8:00PM;
To Carpool, meet at the studio at 7:30PM
Cost: $15 to get in. $5 Valet
Venue:1600 Fairplex Dr, Pomona, CA 91768
Shoes: comfortable shoes/heels with flex, that won’t slip off your heels; or ballroom shoes.
THROWBACK THURSDAY IS HERE AGAIN
As requested, join us on 9/25/14, the last Thursday of this month at Passion Barre for Throwback Thursday. It’s amazing what great music and memories can do. So come dressed in your favorite decade and join us in a blast from the past.
Here are links to our Passion Barre blog (https://www.passionbarre.com/) and Facebook blasts.
Be sure to snag a selfie in class and share your favorite moment.
Hashtags: #passionbarre #karingah #fitforfree #throwbackatpassionbarre
And no, you don’t have to be dressed up to attend class, haha!
Haven’t taken a class at Passion Barre yet? Try your first class for just $10, and give us a call at 909.276.5442 to get on a Passion Barre program that will breathe life into you. Or email us at inspire@karingah.com and let us know if you’d like us to reserve a spot for you.
THOUGHTS FROM OUR BLOG
Telling Tales and changing your story… read more
FUEL THE PASSION FOR FREEDOM
Click to learn about combating human trafficking. Learn more about one of our partner’s projects, and the powerful rescue stories.
VIDEO: RELEVES AND HOW TO GET A STILETTO LIFT
Enjoy this video and try it at home:
How to do a ballet Relevé properly in a simple sequence to get a low-impact, butt lifting and leg defining workout.
CLICK TO REFER A FRIEND
If you’re an ambassador and you’ve been meaning to introduce a family member or friend to your fav. Passion Barre studio, now’s the time to do it 🙂
So our ladies at Passion Barre won’t be second (I’m usually the first, haha) to hear this during our “Inspire” part of class. I couldn’t wait: I heard a man talk about changing your story to an empowering one, and I could barely finish listening to his sentence while these thoughts hit me.
There’s a story that plays in our minds. And for many, that’s really all it is. A story. But we’ve learned that whatever plays in our minds (our thoughts) is what we live out or find manifested to us.
The circumstances that lead to these stories are usually strong with great impression – especially the ones that our major influencers have lived out in front of us; or those proven to us by a scientific or doctor’s report.
But even during a barre workout this concept is played out in it’s simplicity. It’s delightful to propose a new move while many of my students whine under the assumption that they can’t do it – until they do (try), only to discover that they could. It’s the story that every instructor has magic kinesthetic powers and is so far removed from the realities of the average student. Hahaha.
But seriously, these stories develop over a long period of time too, and they become our identity. You hear it rehearsed often: “when I was young”… “well you know once you hit this age, you’re stuck”. But what if there’s something so amazing and stable about that age that gives the added advantage of stability and wisdom that we’re failing to focus on? What if the things that don’t lift and move like before have more to do with the lifestyle that led to that age rather than just a ticking clock?
So, what’s your story? Do you like it?
I remember, with a particular context in my life, I had a great story modeled in front of me. It should’ve been relatively easy for me to make that story mine. And it was until one with an impressive personality but no truthful productivity convinced me over time that my story had to change (the power of influence). So I changed it without knowing… And I did not like what it produced in me, neither did it make me more acceptable to my new storyteller. I fell shorter and shorter of the part I was being asked to play. But thanks to a loving influence with great productivity. I re-wrote the story, and made it better. Thankfully, it’s been productive.
So anyone, seemingly from the top, bottom, or in-between has a story, and they can rewrite it as many times as they need to see the right kind of fruit in their lives. It happens all the time.
What’s your new story?
