Mind and Body Fitness Connections

I am excited to say that I will be making my first trip back to the Washington DC area next week since I moved from there in 2003.  I have teamed up with some wonderful individuals here in Oklahoma City who are helping to bring the Active Duty Fitness For Women Boot Camp (ADF) that I coached in VA here to OKC.  I will be staying with my long time friend Dee next week when I am there and we will be getting up early each morning to attend the Reston, VA ADF boot camp which is held in a local park on Mon, Tues, Thurs, and Fri. mornings. 

Doug who is the owner of the business, who I worked with primarily when I lived there years ago, tells me that some of the same women who I coached at that site are still attending.  I’m so excited to go back and visit people that made such a positive impact on my life and to see how ADF has changed, grown and advanced.

I will be returning at the end of next week with a fire and knowledge base to get the OKC location up an running!  Watch out ladies of OKC you in for a surprise.  I guarantee you have never been part of such a motivating, well designed group exercise experience!  I will soon have a link on my website with the OKC info posted, but for now visit www.activedutyfitness.com to find out more about this amazing program.

Here are some fairly recent pictures. 

This one was at a family reunion on my mom’s side.  From left to right: My mom, me and Dylan, my brother in law, my sister  and niece

This was taken at the Oklahoma City zoo, my son and I went with my cousin’s wife and their son Easton.

This one is at the Oklahoma Science Museum (what I knew as the Omniplex when I was a kid).  We sat in on a live “explosion” show and this is Dylan and his cousin Trinity hanging out with the robot after the show.

Well I am excited to say that I have been seeing clients on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s out of Spirit House Yoga at 5107 N Shartel since the beginning of June.  Their website is www.spirithouseyoga.com.  They have a room that I have been renting to work on massage clients.    Now, I will also have an excellent location for exercise therapy working out of a personal training studio called The Obvious Group located within Northpark Mall starting the first week of August.  Their website is www.obviousgroup.org

Onther exciting venture I’ve been exploring is reconnecting with a business associate from the DC area where I used to live.  The plan is to start up an Active Duty Fitness For Women Site here in Oklahoma City sometime in the fall.  We are working out all the details now.  If you want more information on the women’s boot camp go to www.activedutyfitness.com and you will get an idea of how the program will be implemented here in the city. 

Stay well and keep in touch with questions and updates!

Time turns gray

And slips away

As shadows do

On a dreary day

The years pass

And the world turns

History being made

Leaving burns

From the dying rose

Silent anger cries

Just wilting lifeless pedals

Like an unhappy old man who dies

Without the love

We all must see

Unrest and madness

I fancy thee

The falling rain

Taps into pain

Yet for some

It keeps them sane

This world brings chaos

And turns us mad

Without our creator’s love

We will forever be sad

Jennifer Davis (1992; modified 2009)

Hi to all, it has been quite some time since I have written anything. Life has been hectic and out of the ordinary these last couple months. Unfortunately our family never got to go on the cross country adventure we had planned. It’s amazing the curve balls life throws at you. My husband, son and I all settled back in Oklahoma the first week of April and have stayed here since then, however we are living separtely and Dylan is with his dad one week and me the next. I know our family could use prayers from all of you that know the trials we have been through over the past few years. I do believe this will be best for all of us in the long run, however a transistion like this is never easy in the begining.

On a different note, I am starting my business back up again and working on getting my name out there both via the internet and through local professionals who can refer business to me. I am pleasantly surprised to see that the alternative health field is growing here in OKC. I think I have entered at a time before the market is saturated, however, the public has a growing awareness about alternative practices and is seeking services like what my business provides.

Here are a couple pictures that were taken before we left California that I absolutely love! It was my first time to try surfing (and to think I lived in CA 5 years before I took the time to try!) I will be back out there again though and I will definately give it another go!

Well things have been busy since we have been back in Cali! I am working a couple days a week and then meeting up with alot of clients and friends. I’m also working with a CHEK Practitioner and a Neuromuscular Therapist that I know as well as my NUCCA Chiropractor. Since I don’t have any of those types of contacts elsewhere around the country yet I figured I should take advantage of my practitioner’s services here.

My husband, son, the dogs and our roommates have been to the beach a couple times and it has been so relaxing and great. I forgot how much I missed the sunshine, holistic approach to life and the food- I’m not sure if there is anywhere else that has produce like we have here in So Cal.

I’ll post more later with pics! Take care, I’m going to finish up working this morning and then go enjoy the sunshine! May health and peace be with you always!

Wow what an exciting week.   I had some of my out of state family and friends calling because they heard about the torndado here on Feb 10th.  Fortunately we were out of the path of the tornado, but not by far (just a few miles).  Below are pictures of my cousin’s son (Easton) who turned 4 on Feb 7th.  His birthday party was at the Chucky Cheese that’s been all over the news because the tornado hit it.  Anyway, here are pictures of the party.

 Here are a couple of pictures of Easton with his cake.

My Cousin Brian and his Wife Shelby (Easton’s parents) 

The party table.

Dylan dancing with the mechanical Chucky.

This first picutre was taken at a restaurant with good friends.  A friend I’ve known for many years (Mark) had his birthday on the 28th, so Kinny, me, Mark and his wife Codi all went to eat.  You can tell we were bundled because it was in the middle of the nasty weather.  The rest of the pix were taken at my moms house in the yard with Kinny, Dylan the dogs and myself.  Then ironically enough another good friend of mine (that I’ve know since I was 4 years old) had her birthday on the 28th as well.  Unfortunately I didn’t get pics, but she lives outside of the city a bit and after the weather cleared a little, Kinny and I went over to their place for the birthday.  We talked until 5 am, slept till 11/12ish and then played rock band all day.  Kinny’s mom had Dylan and Deena and Johns kids are mostly grown and out of the house so it was a truely stress free time;  I can’t remember when I’ve had that much fun.

Left to right (Codi, Mark, me and Kinny)

Kinny and the dogs (Happy is the pit bull puppy (9 months old) and Onyx is the brindle boxer (10 years old).

Me with Dylan and the dogs.

Kinny, Dylan and the Dogs

One more of Dylan me and the dogs…. Dylan has seen snow now, I’m ready to head back to sunshine!!! Hello California!

My 7 year old niece is in cheer and they were competing last Sunday (on the 25th) so I went to watch.  Unfortunately it was pretty dark in the stadium so my pix inside didn’t turn out very well.  They did take first place in their division at the National Competition though so needless to say there was a lot of excitement surrounding the event!

During the performance

My sister had just bought her a rose after their performance.

Chey, me and Trinity at the stadium.