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Feels like we've been a little out of touch with each other lately, but I promise to stay in town for a couple weeks at least. The schedule has been pretty wild this month, not that I'm complaining. Not one bit. NOPE! Anyway, in case you haven't heard, the first ever PCC (Progressive Calisthenics Certification) Instructor Workshop last weekend was not only a ton of fun, but a great success. There's a blog post below that's the first of many recaps on the way. So please feel free to leave comments there for things you'd like me to cover. Of course I won't be able to grant all requests, but let's hear from you! While I'm on my way home from another event I happened to have a layover in Detroit where while checking email I happened to look up and see something unexpected...

The answer of course is a love of Progressive Calisthenics!   This past weekend was the first ever PCC (Progressive Calisthenics Certification) Workshop, and I'm still honestly just reeling in joy with how well it went.   We all had high expectations - as instructors, as participants etc.   But I can safely say that everyone's expectations were exceeded.   I was honored to be an instructor (as a PCC Team Leader) along with Al Kavadlo, Danny Kavadlo, and Steven Low.  When a workshop is brand new like this, you never really know how it's going to go until you start it up.  It was very clear as soon as we got going that this one was going to blow the roof off.  Al and Danny set a tone of friendly leadership that was so natural that it was a sheer joy to support them.  I told Al at one of our instructor meeting dinners (we may have collectively eaten a small farm over the weekend, by the way.  There might be a lamb shortage in MN for a few weeks) that with the leadership tone he set, helping to instruct the highly motivated group felt nearly effortless.   Order was easily maintained because everyone really wanted the info.  Not to mention all the highly valuable comments, cues, and experiences which were contributed by the participants themselves.   I'm confident to say that EVERYONE, myself included has come away from this weekend a better instructor than just a few days ago.

Yesterday's Primal Move workshop in Ocala, Florida was a TON of fun. We had a smaller group than some of the other workshops I've led before, but that ended up being just fine given the size of our location. Everyone who attended was very engaged, asked wonderful questions, and worked together as a great group. I'm curious to see what they come up with in their own training, and that of their clients.

Until now, only a few people know that some of my better small group workouts begin as ideas scrawled on the back of coffee shop receipts in a post-espresso maniacal blur.  Most of these ideas are legible only to other people who have terrible handwriting like me, and when I go back to review and refine them, it's not without some degree of amusement.  By the look of my terrible handwriting, I should have gone to med school.   The small group version of this particular workout was a little on the experimental side and uses a drill which I'm not comfortable sharing here yet (it's best described in person and is from a yet-to-be-published source).

It's no mystery that I like to think, and this means I really like thinking about thinking, and figuring out "why". Day after day after day I see a lot of stuff written and complaining about women's poor self image and how it puts them at a disadvantage for living healthy lives.  These negative mental patterns are also a direct threat to self esteem, implementing their own self-care and maintenance, and most of course, any "weighty issues." Lately, I've been trying to figure out why so many people were having hang-ups with certain things.