We want you to stay fit, healthy and safe!With the current health concerns regarding COVID-19, we have taken the following steps to help keep you healthy, happy and safe while exercising at Every Body Balance. • We encourage you to bring your own fitness mat, blocks, bolsters and other props to practice if at all possible. Check out our guidance for the best eco-friendly mats, recently ad…Read More
Find community and commiseration at prenatal yoga! In part one (check it out here), we began to navigate the truths and experiences you’ll only find at prenatal yoga — the inclusivity and the encouragement from expecting mothers. At Every Body Balance, we offer yoga tailored to pregnant women and a myriad of other classes all in one convenient membership. Join us in part two, as we learn more …Read More
Prenatal yoga is a space for expecting mothers to find solidarity — and really a refuge to let their hair down and be with other pregnant women! When you are pregnant — anonymity is thrown out the window. As soon as you step out your front door you are no longer you — you are the “pregnant one” that everyone wants to talk to ask questions about your due date, the gender of your baby, and…Read More
How Often Should I Exercise? Whether you're new to Every Body Balance or have been attending classes for a while, you might have asked yourself, "How often should I work out?" It depends. Fortunately, the Centers for Disease Control, the Mayo Clinic, the American Heart Association, and fitness gurus provide some useful guidelines. If your goal is to start out and establish a reasonable level of fi…Read More
Flexibility. It’s a topic that can be more polarizing than most people realize. On one end of the spectrum, we have the double jointed people or people who can effortlessly do the splits, but who are more prone to sports injuries. On the other end of the spectrum, you have people who are in pain if they try to reach past their knees and who feel incredibly frustrated if they attend a yoga class.…Read More
Focus. Structure. Predictability. Routine. Raise your hand if you struggle with consistency. Yep, that’s most of us. It’s not that you don’t know you need to work out regularly, don’t want to be consistent, or don’t care that your fitness is going down the tubes because your life has gotten so chaotic. You DO know, care, and want to do it right. So why is consistency so elusive to most o…Read More
Raise your hand if you love living in the Metrowest area. If you’re like us, you love the rural, small-town feel of these communities, and you might sometimes take a step back and ask yourself if it’s really possible that this much peace, quiet, and tranquility exists this close to Boston. While it’s great to have all the conveniences of a major city within easy striking distance (major inte…Read More
If you’re new to modern fitness workouts, you may be curious about all the hype about training your core. If you think it’s just about getting a 6-pack, you need to familiarize yourself with the true value of training your core, because it goes far beyond just crunches and ab exercises. In this blog, we’ll look at the exercises that train your core and find out why it is it such a big deal t…Read More
Ah, how stereotypes abound. And while we applaud the strides that our modern society has made, there is still one fallacy that seems to persist. This is the attitude that “yoga is just for women,” and many men shy away from yoga, not because the benefits of yoga don’t apply to them, but because they don’t want to be “that guy” in a class full of women. Indeed, in 2012, 83 percent of th…Read More
