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Aimee McDonald
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The Importance of GYROKINESIS® Classes for Older Adults
If you were to go online and search for images of GYROKINESIS® and GYROTONIC® training it would be understandable if your impression was...
Aimee McDonald
Mar 16, 20206 min read
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Finding Harmony in Your Fitness Community
Take a second and think about the other Pilates and/or Gyrotonic® trainers in your area, that is if you’re lucky enough to have a...
Aimee McDonald
Jun 18, 20195 min read
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How Fit Do You Need To Be As a Trainer?
Those of us who have chosen careers in the mind body fitness industry clearly have a passion for movement and wellness, and an...
Aimee McDonald
Jun 11, 20193 min read
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All Your Course Materials at Your Fingertips
As trainers we’re busy enough without having to dig out from piles of manuals and notebooks just to get to the studio. And while maybe...
Aimee McDonald
Mar 27, 20196 min read
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Teaching Your Fullest, Within the Scope of Practice
As movement professionals we spend a lot of our own time, money, and energy pursuing many facets of our own health. We may see...
Aimee McDonald
Mar 6, 20199 min read
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Is Opening a Studio Worth It?
As a Gyrotonic® Master Trainer and Pilates Instructor Trainer I’ve had many discussions over the years with new and experienced trainers...
Aimee McDonald
Mar 3, 20196 min read
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What Are You Wearing?!
About six years ago I had an intern working at my studio, working through her GYROTONIC® Apprentice teaching hours as she also learned...
Aimee McDonald
Feb 19, 20193 min read
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Weathering the Ebb and Flow of a Fitness Career
The working life of a mind- body fitness trainer is notoriously inconsistent. Sometimes we’re staying late to accommodate extra clients...
Aimee McDonald
Feb 12, 20196 min read
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My New Strategies in my Epic Battle for Work/Life Balance
Like many in the mind body fitness industry, I’m a classic over-worker. I take on too many clients, cram extra teacher training courses...
Aimee McDonald
Feb 7, 20195 min read
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Embracing Pain
We’ve all experienced physical pain and probably work regularly with clients who have pain. Pains can come and go, or pain can be chronic...
Aimee McDonald
Feb 4, 20195 min read
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Super Simple Taxes for Movement Professionals
It’s about time to start working on your taxes, and if you’re like many mind-body fitness trainers this might fill you with a sense of...
Aimee McDonald
Jan 31, 20195 min read
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The Sneaky Epidemic Effecting Mind Body Fitness Trainers
As a Gyrotonic® and Gyrokinesis® Master Trainer and a Pilates Teacher Trainer I have the opportunity to meet a lot of trainers, studio...
Aimee McDonald
Jan 30, 20196 min read
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Welcome to My Movement Blog!
I’m not so much the “blogging type”, whatever that may be, but it seems the time has come that a blog is the most efficient and effective...
Aimee McDonald
Jan 30, 20194 min read
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