ObnoxiouslyFit

Here’s a workout that yes… is for dancers.
But aren’t we all dancers in some way? Or at least wanting to feel a little more connected to our bodies?

This series focuses on deep core strength, hips, glutes, hamstrings, shoulders, ankles, and stability. The muscles that support posture, balance, coordination, mobility, and control in everyday life.

The bridge work fires up the posterior chain, the banded and ankle weight series builds control and joint stability, and the plank/tabletop work challenges balance and cross-body coordination.

Dancers train strength and mobility at the same time. That’s part of what creates movement that feels fluid instead of rigid. This workout is built for that kind of strength: supportive, adaptable, and connected. 🌀

45x15

Banded flex point in straddle
Hamstring bridge pulse
L sit banded flex point
Hamstring bridge hold

Ankle weight leg lift front
Hug a tree
Side leg lifts
Cactus rotations
Back leg lifts
Front, scap, lateral

Tabletop oh extension w leg hold
Side plank leg lifts
Bridge leg lifts
Hydrant and cactus arm

How many rounds can you get through ? 😅

There are versions of me I used to judge hard.
Versions that stayed too long, trusted the wrong people, ignored my body, overgave, shrank, pushed, numbed, performed.

I used to look at those versions like they were mistakes I needed to separate from.
Like I’d finally “arrive” once I outgrew them enough.

But the truth is… I am built from them.
Not in spite of them.

Every coping mechanism, every detour, every moment I wish I handled differently, it all gave me information. It shaped my awareness. It showed me what I needed, what I was avoiding, what I was ready for, and what I wasn’t.

Growth hasn’t been this clean, graceful unfolding.
It’s been messy. Contradictory. Sometimes slow as hell. Sometimes uncomfortable in ways I couldn’t bypass.

And still… I kept going.

So this version of me isn’t more “worthy” than who I’ve been before.
Just more honest.
A little more present.
A little less willing to abandon myself to keep the peace.

That’s the real shift.

You don’t need to erase who you’ve been to become who you’re becoming.
You just need to stop fighting yourself long enough to actually meet yourself here.

A few photos from my Shamanic Reiki Worldwide EV1 attunement ✨

My alter was altering 🤭 So many plant and crystal and shell friends held space for me. Then I took 1/5 of my Spirit Wand out to connect with nature (more on this later)! Nick and Faunt got to go with too 🤍

I want to age like sea glass. Smoothed by tides, not broken. I want the currents of life to toss me around, shake me up and leave me feeling washed clean. I want my hard edges to soften as the years pass—made not weak but supple. I want to ride the waves, go with the flow, feel the impact of the surging tides rolling in and out.

When I am thrown against the shore and caught between the rocks and a hard place, I want to rest there until I can find the strength to do what is next. Not stuck—just waiting, pondering, feeling what it feels like to pause. And when I am ready, I will catch a wave and let it carry me along to the next place that I am supposed to be.

I want to be picked up on occasion by an unsuspected soul and carried along—just for the connection, just for the sake of appreciation and wonder. And with each encounter, new possibilities of collaboration are presented, and new ideas are born.

I want to age like sea glass so that when people see the old woman I’ll become, they’ll embrace all that I am. They’ll marvel at my exquisite nature, hold me gently in their hands and be awed by my well-earned patina. Neither flashy nor dull, just a perfect luster. And they’ll wonder, if just for a second, what it is exactly I am made of and how I got to this very here and now. And we’ll both feel lucky to be in that perfectly right place at that profoundly right time.

I want to age like sea glass. I want to enjoy the journey and let my preciousness be, not in spite of the impacts of life, but because of them.

- Bernadette Noll