✨As 2020 comes to a close, we are so appreciative for the strength and support of our community.✨
When we first began this quarantine 9 months ago, we knew it would be challenging but little did we know just HOW challenging 2020 would prove to be.
We could not have predicted how our ONLINE studio would transform so many lives from people all over the world, offering them reprieve and a place to prioritize their health.
The mutualistic relationship with our community gives us the strength, stamina and determination to continue onward—they are bright lights for us during this dark time.
Andrea Fuller is one of those shining lights. At the onset of the pandemic we set a goal for our community to: COME OUT OF THIS QUARANTINE STRONGER, MORE AGILE IN MIND & BODY, AND EFFERVESCENT IN SPIRIT! Andrea was right there with us, encouraging us as much as we were encouraging her.
Though we just met in April, she has become a beloved member of our community. She has inspired us with her positivity, generosity, thoughtfulness and dedication.
Here's her story:
I have had many of the same challenges as many people around the world in 2020. I have an African American high school son at home, a new puppy, work, and I'm trying to keep us all safe and sane.
There have been times this year where I felt scared, shocked, sad, gleeful and grateful. I have sometimes felt I was becoming unglued because of the range of emotion, sometimes all in one day or even in one hour. I decided that if I was lucky enough to survive the pandemic, I wanted to come out of it better than when I went in. I'm on my way, thanks in part to the dedicated loving teachers at the Seed Center who kept me moving and gave me courage to overcome limitations.
I started taking classes, and I did some private sessions with Charley as well. What a transformation! I can bend! I can feel my entire body and am much more flexible.
I work with a partner to help run companies grow from $1M to $10-$20M in revenues. I am constantly thinking. GYROTONIC® helps me to get out of my head and back in to my body.
I felt a stiffness in my lower back after a childhood injury—I got struck rolling backward like a ball. It was not painful, but it felt like a section would not bend easily. I believe this injury determined a lot in my life. I was very athletic but I had a big limitation. This stiffness stopped me from fully enjoying and maxing out my physicality.
I've done yoga and Pilates, but nothing worked to help me stretch my lower back in the way that Gyro has over the last 8 months. I can roll like a ball. I can feel the articulation of my spine. I can do Bikram yoga moves impossible over the last 5 years.
I can really sit in my own physical essence and it feels amazing.
I love Charley's Low Back Release class, Nina's Psoas and Hips class, and Holly's amazing Pilates challenge. All of these sessions in combination feel so good and have helped to build my strength, both physically and emotionally. I am very grateful and really privileged to be able to move in this way.
Goodbye 2020, hello 2021.
Thank you Andrea, and all our beautiful movers who give us support and encouragement daily. We will PERSEVERE!