Spirituality of Strength Training

Listen in as Anna Willard shares how to mourn the Past, Present and Future during these times of COVID-19.  She also shares the importance of how to mourn well by living a life with passion.  The root word for passion is to endure well, to suffer well.

The psoas, (the muscle of the soul in Eastern Medicine) is the most intimately connected muscle to our nervous system.  ~ Drew Ragan

How to face and heal trauma vs getting stuck in “woe is me” When in the exercise zone, it frees your mind and physical blocks  Training with joy from the childlike spirit  Self - Judgement creates less energy and restriction  in body  How to have self-love without the other person and the importance of community  How to balance the craziness from news along with self healing, self-care  How to stay open to messages of love within the body

Trauma brings transformation. It is a choice how it will change you. It can destroy you, or it can create strength to love and live in the midst of hope. Liz Mullinar the CEO at Heal for life Foundation shares her wisdom and experience as a healer and psychologist.

Listen to this short solo episode as Anna’s is in complete flow with her thoughts giving you insight and wisdom to this new year and new decade.  Here are three simple things she talks about to help you accomplish things beyond your wildest adventures.

Letting go is an expression of grief, grieving is a process of forgiving. ~ Anna Willard  A new year, a new decade brings change and invites transformation and transitions within our life. For us to embrace the fullness of any type of change there is a grieving process of letting go of the past, good and bad, joyous and hurtful moments.

Silence and Solitude brings us to the wisdom of our oceanic cells and the deep desires of our heart's soul.  ~ Anna Willard

"Self-Forgiveness is accepting the reality truth of our failures, flaws, and imperfections" ~ Anna Willard  Todays Short Sweet Solo Episode Anna Willard talks about three simple steps to follow when practicing self-forgiveness. Acceptance, Daily Doing, and Positive Understanding.  Listen in as she shares how she too struggles with this practice of forgiveness.

From modeling, to stunt driver, to becoming a Hypnotherapist Belinda brings us to a entire new perspective within this practice of forgiveness.

All three of these women bring a broad and deep perspective to forgiveness and the intersection to mind and body within this practice.  In this episode you will learn different aspects of forgiveness like  How to have grace and faith  Develope a level of self-trust  How letting go is a step by step process Its ok to start small  Mindfulness within forgiving self  For the yoga therapy ball here is the link https://livewellround.com/?ref=e6wwg2ew7kq Use ironwilltrain and save $10

Anger is an empowering emotion, nothing is wrong with it. The danger with Anger is when it goes on for too long. ~ Marina Catacuzino  Marina started the Forgiveness Project out of anger during the time of the Iraq War.  Her passion to bring peace through this practice of forgiveness is compelling and transformational.

Jill Colman shares her story of forgiving her ex-husband who cheated for two years of their marriage.  In this episode she walks about . . Its ok to forgive without letting them off the hook  Forgiving self without repeating the same pattern Self acceptance is the key of forgiveness  How to ride the waves of emotions through forgiveness  Letting go while holding onto self trust  Control and trust are complete opposites  Body acceptance is key within the practice of forgiveness

Enjoy this short sweet episode with your Host Anna Willard as she reads part of her book: Spark Your Youth: A 21-Day Fitspirational to give you hope and the power to believe. She continues this theme of FEAR from the last two episodes and gives insight to what we may truly fear and the importance of living out our dreams.

"We fear the pain within our weakness" ~ Anna Willard  Todays Short Sweet Solo Episode Anna Willard talks about how to overcome our fear, how to deal with the pain it brings and the difference when we face our fears and weaknesses vs when we continually train our strengths.

Is Love over Fear a spiritual bypass of our fears?  Listen to Anna Willard as she shares from an athletic point of view how fear is very healthy.  She list when it is good to fear and it is not good to fear

Slow is the New Strong  To build a stable foundation of strength, it requires a slow approach.  Listen to another short sweet solo episode with Anna Willard as she shares the benefits of going slow when learning the kettlebells.  She list three simple benefits by taking things slow Self Awareness  Ability to self correct   Stay true to yourself Anna encourages everyone to not only slow strength training down but  all areas in life so that you will be able to stay true to you!

Death brings life, it is a transition stepping into the unknown to become open for a newness within life.  Listen in as Anna Willard gives insight to how she has recently been dealing with a death within her life.   How easy it is to bypass emotions,  How scary it is to lean into our emotions How healing our emotions can be.

When we live from a place of force, we are working against the flow of life.  Letting go is not completely in flow, there are times in life you need to hold on!  Listen in as Anna Willard shares three things to be aware of when forcing things in life versus being in the flow of the rhythm of life.

Dance is a form of expression and connection  Dive in with Hayley Shannon a healing dance practitioner as she shares many gold nuggets of truth from her experience as a dancer and now a healing dancer facilitator.

Have an open mind a willing heart to learn to love through our differences - Anna Willard  In less than ten minutes Anna shares from her experience how we can create a neutral ground within fitness and religion. She uses the analogy how different types of fitness can be beneficial at different times in life to how we can also benefit from different forms of regions and spiritual practices. Her main goal with this episode is to help us see how loving is learning through our differences.

Within this episode you will learn how magical water can be for our soul and heal our mind giving us the freedom to simply play and enjoy the beauty of nature. As you listen you will also here how she sees the interconnection of the spirituality of water as she touches on these three concepts:  How water can help those who suffer with PTSD How water can spark creativity, awe and wonder How water can be a hug from mother earth

Paige specializes in neurophysiologic therapy of Brainspotting to assist athletes in de-conditioning mal-adaptive brain-body neural pathways from perceived sports failures, sports injuries and surgeries.  She uses photobiomodulation-light therapy to assist athletes in healing their sports injuries and surgeries by up to 50% faster including concussion-traumatic brain injuries.

Awakening moments do not have to be a tragedy but can be from the beauty from life.  Our first international guest Ela Staniak give here wisdom and insight about the connection between mind, body, spirit within the fitness industry.  She shares her personal story that brought her to understanding the connection of spirituality within the physical from the death of her parents to living in beautiful Australia.

In this episode she dives into three key elements to maintain consistency, but first she explains the importance of trust as an undercurrent or a thread weaving these three concepts together. Discipline within the Daily  Persistence within weeks, months, and years   Patience within the process

As you listen to Angela explains these three types of doshas, you will gain body wisdom and knowledge to be more attuned with your health.  By understanding the elements of each one, pitta, kapha, and vatta, you will be given the tools to know how to improve your health to the exact needs of your individual body

In this episode she dives into three aspects how and when words take away from the wisdom of our body. Talking too much about the goal or decision tricks the brain to feel like it has accomplished it already Talking can take away from the time and space needed for practice the lessons learned from the discussions. Being over coached, mentored takes away from brain body connection and the wisdom from within our body  TAKING ACTION WILL ALWAYS BE THE KEY TO MOVE FORWARD YET THE MOST CHALLENGING

Alison Mattek is a postdoctoral research scientist in the department of psychology at the University of Oregon. She works in the Computational Social Neuroscience Lab, and received her PhD in the Psychological and Brain Sciences from Dartmouth College.

Three types of meditation concentration of the mind - anchor your focus on a certain thing, it is concept of being better control of your mind, tame the monkey mind contemplative practice - curate your thoughts into better thoughts, from negative to positive thoughts. Vedic - allowing your mind to meditate with a certain mantra, allowing your mind be in flow

Anna Willard shares what she believes spiritually and her journey struggling through this life learning the layers of love and embracing the spiritual through the physical. Join her today as she shared the key concept of believing in a greater power, an infinite and intimate power of love.

eam Wallace joins us for deep conversations and questions about religion, systems, and health, and much more! We jump right into depth with the trauma living in the Church and this was the game changer for Andy.

From starting a career in modeling, Troy Casey turned to holistic nutrition to help decrease his stomach from bloating. As he continued to understand more about nutritions he continued to broaden his knowledge about health and healing and is known as the Certified Health Nut.

Danny J Johnson is a bright light to this world with her smile story, and strength to move forward from the challenges in life. We start off with a deep dive into her story how she discovered she was pregnant as a teenage and the roller coaster ride of wanting an abortion to give her child up for adoption. During this story you will gain a new perspective and see the good in every situation in life and how you can  be the light in any circumstances

From the corporate world within the beginning days of Microsoft to Tarot Cards and Yoga.  David Flenniken shares his story how he managed his spiritual life living in the corporate world and what lead him to create his own Tarot Cards and to teaching yoga.

From back surgery to strength training, Pastor Shannyn shares her vulnerability of the life lessons with healing her body to be holy work.  After moving to Seattle, she hit rock bottom and rediscovered herself with again within fitness. Yet she had always been part of some type of fitness, listen in to how this time returning to health changed her.

Anna Willard jumps in with how using the phrase of "my story" can cause more harm than healing.  She shares the importance of understanding the interconnection of our stories and how stories are to unite each other. When we hold onto the fact of "my story" we negate this connection and the invitation for all of us to heal. This is the strength and art of letting go and to become open to a deeper strength to move through us to heal in ways we never thought possible.

This conversation with Dr. Parker is rich, insightful, deep and will leave you with a greater wonder about god, religion, and spirituality. In this episode she gives her knowledge within history, the biblical text, and her own personal experiences as an Baptist African American women professor.

THIS EPISODE YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS!!! Have a playful spirit and accomplish your dreams, goals, and much more than you could imagine    Learn how you are creating a childlike spirit and incorporate a playfulness approach to any goal you have within your life.    You will learn how having a childlike spirit of playfulness will help you let go of . . . .  outcomes  other's opinions  failures

This episode is full women wisdom like: The mental game for Iron Maiden  The art of training pull-ups, pistols, and press  The importance of staying healthy while loved ones life is in a health crisis  How visionalization can assist the healing process How believing it is possible is a game changer  The struggle of training with the hormones with a female body  The bond between Mother daughter friendships  Body Image - The Struggle is REAL  How being easily offended is creating a weak char

Tired of workout out by yourself? You want to join a group fitness class yet you fear not being able to keep up with the group? Do you long to have some type of deep connection within your workouts with others and yourself? Listen to this episode and you will Learn the power of working within yourself along with a other to build a strong connection within your spiritual being.

Wisdom comes from being wrong  We gain strength through struggle  Being stubborn is being persistence  Power of group exercise  How to have courage in the presence of fear  Letting go of expectation is the art of coaching  How us as leaders and coaches need to guide vs direct  How aspiration can create body shame  The importance of working out alone  How perfectionism silence true strength How to avoid burnout within fitness  Strength to face our own demons and face trauma

The Struggle to embrace Self-Worth gives us the Strength to Love  - Anna Willard  Today's episodes is another short sweet solo session with your host, Anna Willard. Dive in with her as she discusses three hiccups that trip us up from living from our worthiness of love.  Labels Achievements  Push-back

From being a victim of domestic violence to becoming an author of 10 different books Laticia Action Jackson took focused action on her life and started to N-Powered herself.   She has three different degrees, with numerous visit on global television stations, United Air Force Ventrin and an Bodybuilder Fitness Olympia. Laticia shares her journey how she built health within, the struggles of being a women of color and racism and her love for others.

Ever wondered what it is like to work with Anna Willard? Listen to today's episode as she interviews her former clients Chandreyi and Ryan Davis. Learn how Chandreyi shares how she thought fitness was the one thing that doesn't happen for her and how this changed while training with the kettlebells!

Everyone has privilege. It is how we use privilege to create change? - Chrissy King  Dive in with Chrissy King on some of these important topics regarding the health of our nation From motivated to become skinny to become strong  Time, Persistency, Consistency, Patiences the four things to put into practice for any skill throughout life How fitness is still white washed and what roles need to do to create the change

"Become Empowered with the kettlebell instead of allowing the weight to have power over you" - Denzel Allen Denzel and Anna dive into their experience training for the Beast Tamer and Iron Maiden and the similarity their stories have with the physical and mental limitations. Listen in and learn how they broke through these barriers.They also share their story of how they both started surfing and what that has opened up for them mentally and emotionally.

Your worth is not defined by the number on the scale, the number of reps, the number or weights or the number in distance you can run, swim or bike.  To be able to accomplish anything within this world you must know first your worth, and allow this mindset to remind your body that it is already worthy.  Believing in your worth allows your body to step into is potential and achieve these goals.

"Have the courage to accept Love is our salvation"  - Gina LaRoche Gina gives her insight on the importance of Love, Hope, Dream, and our health.  She dives right in with the Seven Laws of Enough: Stories Matter I am enough (we do enough and we have enough) I BELONG No one is exempt  Resting is Required  Joy is available  Love is the answer

Today's episodes is the first short sweet session with your host, Anna Willard all about trying vs doing.  Trying eliminates our power and strength and takes away our ownership to the process of accomplishing our goals.  Learn how you are creating a mental and physical barrier when using the word try. Listen in to how you can replace this word with this empower phrase of "I am working on." She encourages you to practice this new phrase and be aware how it changed your mind and body.

"Fitness is not all lululemon and being a thin yoga model" ~ Allison Tenney After her own personal white woman wake up call after her first Ignited Womxn Summit event, Allison Tenney dove into the white privilege and started listening to the stories from women of color.

THIS EPISODE YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS!!!Kick start off the New Year with the right mindset for your biggest dreams. We have the strength to define what we find impossible to be possible. Enjoy this short sweet episode with your Host Anna Willard as she reads part of her book Spark Your Youth: A 21-Day Fitspirational to give you hope and the power to believe.