Train for Life

Category: Ergonomics

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Heel Drops This practice relieves stress and anxiety by calming your nervous system while connecting you to the earth and your body. Here’s how! Begin standing, and allow your eyes to defocus. Rise up onto your toes and then let yourself thud back down to…

  • Wordy Wednesday

    I’m sharing more words from my word calendar this past week! 📚📓 Let’s learn some new words and enhance our vocabulary without the help of Chat GPT!  😂 How will you apply at least one of these words to your daily life? Conversations, workshops and presentations, and journaling and reflection, to name a few! *…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Rock and Tilt Create space and emotional release in your hips with this practice. Here’s how! Sit on the ground. (You may want to sit on a folded blanket to slightly elevate your hips.) Bring the soles of your feet together to touch and…

  • Wordy Wednesday

    I’m sharing more words from word calendar this past week! 📚📓 Let’s learn some new words and enhance our vocabulary without the help of Chat GPT!  😂 How will you apply at least one of these words to your daily life? Conversations, workshops and presentations, and journaling and reflection, to name a few! * PETRICHOR (noun)…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Jog and Fold This practice can help you to complete the stress response if you’ve been holding back anger or feeling anxious. Here’s how! Jog in place for one (1) minute. Stop. Inhale deeply then exhale into a forward fold. Hang like a rag…

  • Wordy Wednesday

    Let’s kick off 2026 learning a few new words!

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Feeling the Breath This is a breath awareness practice, which means we do not need to change our breath in any way. We simply observe our breath as it is, without judgment. Here’s how! Bring your attention to your breath as a whole for…

  • Welcome January

    This month, focus on what matters to you.

  • Happy New Year

    As we step into 2026, try making a New Year resolution to be a “compassionate mess”. This means that instead of focusing on getting it right, we focus on opening our hearts. It is important to try to alleviate our suffering by making needed changes in our lives. However, we can also fail over and…

  • Make Christmas Special for You

    Make Christmas Special for You

    Merry Christmas from my heart to yours! Spend the holidays the way YOU want to. If that means not going home, or eating pizza (or a vegetable frittata) instead of the ham (or turkey) everyone else always eats, whatever it is, just do what makes you truly happy. — A. Pawlowski Which tree are you this season?…