“Just” breathing seems like a simple and obvious request. After all, breathing is automatic, we don’t even think about it. This automaticity allows us to inhale and exhale almost 1,000 times per day while performing […]

When I was practicing in orthopedics I deemed one summer “The Summer of the Foot.”  I was working outpatient physical therapy and seeing roughly 2-3 patients per hour.  An astounding 75 percent of […]

What’s your favorite song of all time?  Quickly, you only have five seconds…1…2…3…4…5…Do you have it?  Write it down.  Now think about what you were doing in your life around the time that […]

1. Everyone is looking at me, judging me.  Nope.  They are all focused on themselves, the teacher, the subject matter, or afraid you are looking at them!  So walk on in there and […]

  Beach Bum Exercises Mid-Summer Bum Workout from Mind the Mat Pilates & Yoga on Vimeo. Keep these powerful muscles toned and shaped all summer.  Glute strengthening will not only stave off low […]

Every summer my family has the opportunity to spend a few weeks in Boston. As many of you know, it’s very similar to Alexandria as both have deep ties to history, however if […]

It was a typical morning.  I had just dropped off my boys at school and pulled into the St. Elmo’s parking lot to grab coffee.  Once I park, I usually sit in my […]

The countdown to Well Ray 2016 in on!  We call Del Ray Well Ray because our Alexandria neighborhood is known for its abundance of wellness- and fitness-related businesses, from exercise studios to life […]

Smile ?.  It’s what you can’t help doing when you talk about the clients and teachers at Mind the Mat.  Although it’s difficult to describe the feeling you get when you enter MtM, […]

It has been written. For all workout and athleisure purposes, I LOVE lululemon athletica (see my post Anatomy of a Fit Life: My Style).  I am blessed to be a lululemon ambassador for the […]

I grew up a Navy Brat (or as my grandmother would always say, “Navy Junior”) and was fortunate to live in cool coastal places as a kid.  Looking back now I can’t believe […]

Thank you for all the great feedback about my last flat belly post.  The response has been unreal!  Unreal in that an Alexandria City public official approached me at Stomping Ground, plopped on […]

I’ve posted a couple times about flat abs and how to achieve them (click here and here for a refresher), but what if that little pooch is something else, something that traditional abdominal […]