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We’re Not Really Personal Trainers

Forest Coaching and Studio has a different approach to training
If you’re struggling with feeling like there’s something wrong with you because the countless one-size-fits all, “do-or-die” training and fitness programs or strategies you’ve tried over many years just haven’t worked… my trainers and I want to first tell you: There is nothing wrong with you. You are whole. You are capable. You are worthy,
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Forest Studio Can Help With Chronic Pain

Real soultions for neck pain and back pain
Have you ever been in a situation where you’ve suffered from chronic neck or back pain? Are you dealing with it now, or do you know someone who is? It SUCKS! It can be annoying at best or debilitating at worst. Really, not fun! Did you know that chronic pain actually affects more people in
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My Favorite Apps for Habit Change

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Life. For better or worse — I’ll rant about the glamorization of busy later — it’s crazy busy. (and I’m not even a parent. Seriously…how do you guys do that?) I know I tend to beat myself up when I set a goal and can’t even seem to manage an extra 30 seconds of breathing drills.
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Effortless Healing

Touching in with the heart of pain is incredibly powerful and necessary work. But we – as a healing society – have a habit of poking the bear sometimes… treating the site of pain over and over until we can’t see past it. What if you could change your pain, your heartache, your habits with
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Creating Emotional “Aspirin” for Pain and Anxiety

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Quick thought for the day … Sometimes pain (physical pain, metabolic dysfunction or anxiety for the purposes of this post) can manifest simply because our fear responses are outweighing our joy responses! I offer this: Today or tomorrow or this week, instead of focusing on healing modalities for the suffering (drills or exercises or diets…)
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State of the Forest 2018

Ya’ll (my mom’s from Kentucky, I’m allowed to say that)… I’m super excited for this year! 2017 taught me how to find joy laugh out loud and live unabashedly! I was able to break free of some deeply held beliefs about my heart, my business and how I relate to others, and I am so
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Make change and projects failure proof (or: why holiday binge cardio is stupid)

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for the past year, I have been playing with different ways to offer movement coaching online…PDF documents, a training library with a password, an online training app, teleportation or astral projection… and they’ve all been a bit of a bust for me. Pictured: my iPhone’s “PHOTOS” collection. You can see that it is full of
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Revealing the Person I’ve Always Been

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Something was wrong. Something big. And I couldn’t put my finger on it until I realized that I was hiding a big part of myself from the world and – really – from myself. My work, my life and my identity would need to be unearthed and rebuilt, and I had no idea where to
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I Believe In Singing

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“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.” ― Mary Oliver shorty blog update to let you know: a. HUGE changes coming to the website, coaching stuff and more! stay tuned… b. I’m teaching yoga again… schedule TBD but I’m SUPER excited. c. Last week’s playlist is below
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Advanced Practice: Dig Into Happiness

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We’re really good at going all Indiana Jones on our own suffering We’ll dig for months to pry out the reason for that prickle of anxiety or spike of sadness… (and that’s assuming we’ve moved past the “why did I do that dumb thing” into “oh. I feel that annoying thing again” which takes a
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Anne Forest is an SFG II Kettlebell Instructor, 200 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher, Certified Personal Trainer, and Certified Z Health Practitioner specializing in the neurology of pain and performance and the intersection of corrective exercise and neurological change. She works with people in pain, helps athletes with goals of all shapes and sizes, and trains Strong First candidates on their path to certification.

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