{"id":6181,"date":"2016-08-04T20:46:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T20:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/?p=6181"},"modified":"2024-01-06T14:49:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T14:49:41","slug":"rest-recover-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/rest-recover-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest, Recover & Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whew! July was obviously a busy month, as I notice I have had to stop, take a pause to rest, regroup, recover<\/strong>, refresh my energy more than once in the past 30 days. <\/p>\n

It’s noticeable how full the month has been, as my last blog entry was more than 30 days ago! Uh Oh! I know that if I don’t have the energy and enthusiasm to delight, excite and inspire my students, they will not get the best of my teaching and I won’t support them enough to have them feel the best about their own work.<\/p>\n

One of the ways I use to escape is to lose myself in nature and the visual, sensory delight it brings. It’s one reason my apartment is such a complete mess. I drop things at the door, peel off layers and toss them in a corner and keep running out the door – out and into the open. My attitude is the mess will still be there when I get back. The light, sun and colorful brilliance of the day will be lost in a few precious hours.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I jump on my inline skates with headphones on and ‘dance-skate’ and sing loudly. \u00a0Sometimes I jump on the treadmill and ‘rebound-run’ for a good 3 miles and sometimes I just ride as hard and as fast as I can trying to stay out of the way of the strollers out clearing their heads on the Riverwalk.<\/p>\n