New: ALIGN audio available
By request we will be recording some of your favorite ALIGN fitness classes on audio. Not video? Well that’s an intense undertaking and besides, via audio we’ll be sparing you the crick in your neck trying to watch the TV during chaturanga and we will continue to encourage stepping away from technology during your moments of peace.
How will you get this audio? Over the next three months we will record one basics and one intermediate class each month. $10 will get you the access code to download our first audio class. $20 will give you access to download all three (one each month). You are welcome to buy one and invite friends over to take the class with you and reuse it over and over again! If you know you are already interested, we will have a order sheet and be accepting prepay during our Ocala ALIGN celebration class Monday. Order and payment is also available by mail.
A Letter of Gratitude to the community of Ocala ALIGN
Reflections of Love
I filled the subject line with “blessed journey” because I truly feel offering fitness classes with you has built and formed ALIGN into what I am proud it is today. You are some of the most gracious I’ve ever shared space with. You fill the room with determination, love, laughter, and the presence of your spirit fills the room with the light of the Holy Spirit reflected on your faces. I’ve enjoyed seeing those faces all scrunched up at times trying a new funky pose or flipped upside down smiling like we did just last week! And then calm and serene while joining in community to conclude class in the moment of centering prayer.
A Surprising Journey
This thought-filled reflection is one I hope isn’t new news to you! I’ve been gushing about how wonderful you are for months now J. We are at a junction though in the journey, and I wish I could talk to each one of you about it personally but my timeline doesn’t allow it. On Friday, I was offered a position in Orlando at an architecture firm. My degree and experience is in this field so I believe it is wise for me to take and I will begin on Tuesday.
We WILL have classes this Wednesday at PAC & a special celebration class next Monday at 5:30pm, more info on that later. This certainly doesn’t change how much I cherish these times together. I look forward to someday seeing you all drop by at my sometime-in-the-I’m-not-sure-when-future space in Orlando! Please pray I continue to find time and opportunities to share and express ALIGN fitness classes in the Winter Park area while I return to architecture work full-time. My heart absolutely loves sharing ALIGN! Many have already asked that I keep you posted on that. If you’d like you can help out now by going online to submit your recommendation!
Looking Forward
How will I continue to care for you? Well you bet I will! I wish I could have had someone trained by now to help guide you in future classes, but at this point there is not yet anyone in Ocala who has risen to offer this unique type of fitness classes with a Christian foundation. However, one of my training experiences was with the founder of WholyFit, Laura Monica, and while we are very different people, I can attest strongly that our time together was Christ-centered and her ministry focused. The movements of WholyFit provide challenge and spiritual encouragement many have come to love. Some videos you may enjoy are offered by WholyFit (I’ve done the Psalm 63 one and enjoyed it).
As you explore other options in Ocala, please make sure that you are sensitive and biblically discerning to very slick and clever deceptive philosophies. Many studios don’t even realize that is what they are sharing. Enjoy the movements, but protect your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. And when one day I get connected with a video set-up, YOU will be the first community to receive MY premier ALIGN video! Do you hear “group video class?!”
The heart of man plans his way,
but the Lord establishes his steps.
I pray you will continue well on your journey to living a life centered on Christ, that each day you find rest in His loving arms as you walk in His strength the life God has given you – wherever the road may take you as well. Keep me posted on how you are doing and where life takes you. If you ever want ALIGN at a women’s retreat, we’ve done those, so you know who to call!
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and
with all your soul and with all your mind.”
With love and abundant gratitude,
Becky
Refreshers
- Two classes available on Wednesday at PAC: 6pm Basics & 7:15pm Intermediate
- Let’s pack out the last few days and make it a celebration of the community that’s been drawing together for ALIGN fitness.
- Combined celebration of Ocala ALIGN (that’s YOU!) on Monday August 6th, 5:30pm. Including more t-shirt give-aways.
- If you have a Groupon please contact me regarding options for completing your redemption.
Set it aside and be still
Be Still … and Know
We deepen our practice in many ways. Some days it takes a lot to put down whatever task is calling our name to make it to class. We know that is one way we prepare for class, but what about all the other ways. We may slip an extra glass of water in during lunchtime to hydrate our bodies for our balances. Or tackle our list of phone calls earlier in the day, so we aren’t anticipating a call and rushing in the last minute before class, tension filling our shoulders.
But what if the best way to prepare is less about our hands and more about our heart? Perhaps the best most fulfilling way to prepare for class is personal bible study and prayer. Those cherished final moments of centering prayer are then fueled my our moving meditation. Which is in turn fueled by the very word that draws our minds into the Truth of God and our right relationship with him through the personal work of Jesus Christ. Just as we prepare our bodies to enter into stillness by working out and intensely diving into movement, we prepare our hearts and center our soul for a calming peace and surrender by diving into the Word of God in our time outside of class.
This can be a struggle at times, just as putting aside our to-do pile is to get to class. I know this at times just as much as the next gal! So I ask, what have you been reading lately? I’d love your feedback of chapters or books of the Bible and what you see in them that is powerful in your life lately.
-B.B.
Our last week of Summer
I hope you all make effort to attend class this week. It is our final week of the Summer Unlimited series and has been an absolute joy to see it so well received. Come finish this block of classes with a “bang!” Standard class rate and Groupons accepted as usual as well.
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