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One Year and counting!
What a year it’s been. August 3rd, 2022 was the first day doors opened to welcome clients into The Chad Allen Method at 1608 Sawtelle Blvd. Two months later I enjoyed my first ever ribbon cutting ceremony and open house party on October 15th, 2023.
It has been an incredible year of welcoming long-time clients to our new playground plus introducing new clients to my Method. I have welcomed new affiliate instructors and their clients to the studio. This has truly been an unparalleled year of growth in the services, equipment, workshop offerings and life-enhancing tools at The Chad Allen Method. Virtually every aspect of TCAM has grown this year and I am thrilled and honored to celebrate all the incredible changes.
It all began before August 3rd and most have never seen the studio before it was the incredible space that it is now. I hope you enjoy the video of my first walk-thru and the gallery of before photos. Not unlike the work I do everyday with clients, it is still amazing and inspiring to see what was, and is, waiting to be experienced.
Here are some photos of the space before any renovations began. The potential was hiding among the many rooms and corridors, a labyrinth of possibility.
The ideas began. Then changed. Then changed again.
Then demolition and construction…
Bare walls and an empty space. The beauty of possibility!
First and foremost, the centerpiece…our beautiful custom sprung dance floor
Then the sign… it was official then.
And then, the ball just could not stop rolling..
The beautiful garden patio updates
Time to celebrate! Ribbon cutting, friendship, love and community!
And now, here’s a look at one year later.
Just a few things have changed.
I look forward to welcoming you to the studio!
Free 2 Be Me Dance™ - November 6th, 2022
Isn’t it great when someones asks about your experience? Every week we embrace the opportunity to ask, and to listen. Free to be me, outside of dance.
Some times the greatest obstacles to understanding are the unspoken and unseen ones.
However, as is ofter said, once you know, you can never NOT know again 😁. What can we learn from one another that will help us all better understand this life experience we call our very own.
This week’s window of wisdom question:
Free 2 Be Me Dance families, what do you wish others would ask you or, what would you like to share with those who want to learn about your unique life experience?
* feel free to use as many emojis as you like ✅
Free 2 Be Me Dance™ weekly conversation!
Learning happens on and off the dance floor. Whether we are the student, the teacher or an observer.
I believe that learning is a lifelong opportunity and especially learning from those in my community is one of the greatest gifts.
I am blessed to have met the beautiful community of the Free 2 Be Me Dancers and their families. Each Sunday they shine their light in the studio and radiate life lessons all around. This blog is an opportunity for all of us to learn and be inspired by their wisdom.
Today’s window of wisdom question: Families, please share one of the benefits that dance has brought to your child and family. (open hearts want to know!)
Just Breathe!
It sounds simple enough. If you’re reading this article you’ve likely accomplished this simple task some 20,000 times every day, drawing in 12 breaths a minute. All of this is required to complete one cycle of oxygenated blood around the body and back to the heart, which takes approximately 7 minutes.
Just Breathe!
It sounds simple enough. If you’re reading this article you’ve likely accomplished this simple task some 20,000 times every day, drawing in 12 breaths a minute. All of this is required to complete one cycle of oxygenated blood around the body and back to the heart, which takes approximately 7 minutes. And we’ll do this over and over again each and every day. At least, we hope we do. Beyond being the liaison between our internal and external environment, our breath is also capable of changing our state of being by speeding our respiration or slowing it way down, each causing a cascade of influence which ultimately we experience in our state, or mood. Deep breaths create a different mood than shallow breathes and the range between these two can be much bigger than you think. Our lungs are capable of holding up to seven pints of air on a fully expanded breathe but so much of the time we’re only holding about one pint of air. And this is only our lungs’ contribution to our breath.
Consider that the lining of our noses house 800 million nerve endings. Clearly an integral way that we relate to our environment these nerve endings are the gateway to essential oil vapors imparting their information to our entire nervous system. Did you know there is a lobe of our brain, directly influenced by these nerve endings, that only interacts with our sense of smell? And this lobe is our emotional control center. This might explain why some emotions cannot be transformed through mere words and intention alone. Smell is essentially vibration and vibrations are signatures, or keys. Each key fits a particular lock. Sometimes the journey is discovering the key for that lock, as we do in an AromaDome session. But essential knowing that the key is in the breath and the vibration of smell.
Influencing each of these nerve endings and our emotional center, deep breathing with essential oils is not only capable of expanding your oxygenation potential of your lungs and blood but to speak directly to our emotion control center. Not with words. But with your breathe.
Explore more about creator Julie Chetow’s own journey in her book AromaDome Changing Lives One Breath at a Time.
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Fascia is the New Black
Any professional in the fitness or movement world has read the defining book Anatomy Trains by Thomas Meyers, an incredibly in-depth look at the qualities, role of and behavior of fascia in the human body as well as the ‘lines’ that these pathways create. Not a leisurely Sunday morning read, this book has become one of the most referenced books for those exploring human movement and performance.
Fascia is the New Black
Any professional in the fitness or movement world has read the defining book Anatomy Trains by Thomas Meyers, an incredibly in-depth look at the qualities, role of and behavior of fascia in the human body as well as the ‘lines’ that these pathways create. Not a leisurely Sunday morning read, this book has become one of the most referenced books for those exploring human movement and performance. When Bob Cooley began to explore the role of fascia in human movement he also discovered another connection, that of the fascia lines in the body with the meridian system that acupuncture has referenced for millennia. As Bob began to notice that not only were individuals movement patterns beginning to change and expand, so did their personalities and emotional patterns, sometimes in the very moment of a stretch.
Sometimes answers are right in front of us, all while we inadvertently look beyond them, seeing what we’ve always been taught but missing the new information. In this case Bob looked head-on into the obvious. We all know that we feel better when we move. Don’t you want to just run around the block when you’re anxious or take a nap when you are emotionally avoiding something? We all know our bodies express emotion but we have a better understanding now of just where these emotions and personalities can be interacted with the most directly, the fasical/meridian connection.
In a culture that invents trends to avoid stagnation and repetition, like in fashion, there is a season for everything. The season of our fascia has arrived. It is indeed the new black and if you are as passionate about fitness as wellness as we are, this will change your life, and you look, for good. Explore Bob Cooley’s work at TheGeniusofFlexibility.com.