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Aimee McDonald
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GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Master Trainer
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Hello 2025
Behind the Scenes of a Full Life Wow! 2024 has been a wild year! To be honest, it’s been a bit overwhelming. I’ve been struggling to...
Aimee McDonald
Dec 30, 20243 min read
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Elevating My Practice: A Glimpse into My Upcoming Studio
As much as I’ve enjoyed writing my blog in the past, I’ve had a difficult time keeping it going these past couple of years, mostly...
Aimee McDonald
Dec 13, 20233 min read
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Making the Movement Industry Work for Women
Making the Movement Industry Work for Women Recently a student and friend of mine went through a series of major life changes in a short...
Aimee McDonald
Oct 10, 20227 min read
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The Blog is Back!
It’s been a long time since my last blog post, over a year, and that’s partly because I felt there hadn’t really been much new to write...
Aimee McDonald
Aug 8, 20226 min read
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Your Path to Mastery
Most of us who choose a career as movement professionals don’t do so out of a motivation to acquire great wealth or power, and those who...
Aimee McDonald
Jul 12, 20217 min read
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Your Very Own Home Studio
In my career as a movement teacher I have worked in large studios, worked out of my home, owned a studio with 10 trainers, and now, after...
Aimee McDonald
Jun 9, 20216 min read
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Envisioning Your Post-Covid Movement Career
Part 2: Your Vision With vaccinations and the lifting of Covid restrictions it’s starting to seem possible to return to something of a...
Aimee McDonald
May 24, 20215 min read
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Envisioning Your Post-Covid Movement Career
Part 1: My Vision It’s early April, 2021. My parents and partner are fully vaccinated and I just have one more dose to go. Clients I’ve...
Aimee McDonald
Apr 7, 20215 min read
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When Movement Isn't the Answer
As a GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® teacher and a pilates trainer I’ve spent years helping my clients resolve their issues with pain and...
Aimee McDonald
Nov 10, 20205 min read
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Managing My Social Media Crash
It’s the beginning of November and I haven’t written a blog post since the end of June. For those of you who have followed me, you may...
Aimee McDonald
Nov 2, 20205 min read
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When it’s Time to Go Back After COVID Closures
It’s June 25th, 2020 and depending on where we are, we’re all in different phases of returning to in-person training sessions. Some of us...
Aimee McDonald
Jun 25, 20207 min read
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The Studio Fired Me and What We All Can Learn Part 3: Your Intellectual Property
As a GYROTONIC® and Pilates trainer I never put much thought into the idea of intellectual property, or how it might it might come into...
Aimee McDonald
Jun 18, 20207 min read
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The Studio Fired Me and What We All Can Learn: Part 2 Negotiate and Thrive
I readily admit that I am people pleaser, a good girl, and most definitely a conflict avoider. While these aren’t entirely bad traits...
Aimee McDonald
Jun 9, 20209 min read
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The Studio Fired Me and What We All Can Learn Part 1: Be Your Brand
For those of you who haven’t heard, I was very recently fired from the studio where I taught. The impact of this is deepened for me by...
Aimee McDonald
Jun 3, 20205 min read
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The Unexpected Joy of Online Teaching
Before COVID-19 shut down the studio where I teach I had never put much though into online teaching. I could imagine a few scenarios in...
Aimee McDonald
May 6, 20206 min read
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Streamlining Your Online Fitness Studio
Back when, what seems like years ago but was really just mid March, the studio where I teach announced they were closing for in-person...
Aimee McDonald
Apr 30, 20207 min read
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Lessons for a Movement Teacher in Isolation
At this point the studio where I teach has been closed for over a month and we’re about a month into a Stay Home order. My initial panic...
Aimee McDonald
Apr 22, 20206 min read
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Tips for Presenting Your Best Online Fitness Classes
As I’m writing this it seems most of us in the fitness industry have settled into our new routine of online teaching. A couple of weeks...
Aimee McDonald
Mar 31, 20208 min read
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Ethics for Fitness Pros During the COVID-19 Crisis
As I’m writing this we’ve had over a full week now of social distancing protocols, meaning the studio where I teach abruptly, and very...
Aimee McDonald
Mar 23, 20208 min read
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Zooming to Get Up and Running with Online Teaching
Those of you who know my teaching style are aware I’m very hands on. That combined with being only average when it comes to tech...
Aimee McDonald
Mar 18, 20208 min read
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