Packrafting Workout is tomorrow! ☀️Build strength for backpacking & paddling ☀️Exercises for boating stability & muscle memory ☀️Nervous system training for working with fear on the water ☀️Mobility Track & modifications for those off-the-couch ☀️Optional up-levels for those who want a challenge 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 @𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭 →45 min all-levels Zoom workout →1pm AKST / 5pm EST →Link in my bio to join or get the replay via email Join us! And tag friends who are packrafters or packraft-curious :) Especially women & non-binary folks out there, would love to see more of you at the workout! 
I always try to time the start of Summer Strong to hit when spring breakup starts... today it's feeling like we should start up right away! The spring melt switch just flipped here in anchorage & things are melting fast. It's time to transition between winter and summer, and if you need a training program for that I'm here to help :) Summer Strong is starting on April 19th - two weeks from tomorrow. If you sign up this week, I'll email you two video workouts you can do this week. Or go find the free Complete Your Stress Cycle on my website - that's perfect for this week too. Then, next week, come to my free live zoom workouts (4/12 & 4/14, links in bio). It's all part of the on-ramp for Summer Strong: Online Training for Summer Adventures. We're building a community of down-to-earth outdoorsy folks (Summer Strong is a women-centered space) who care about the world and also want to have a really good summer this summer. And we'd love to have you! Tag your summer adventure pals: 
Summer Strength Workout 💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿 I'm so excited to be partnering with @SheJumps to offer an all-level bodyweight workout via Zoom! We're going to kick off the summer season in preparation for hiking/biking/boating/running season. If you're new to training with me, this is a great chance to try out my style of workouts & see if it's a fit for you. We'll cover: ➜Summer recreation-specific exercises to build strength, stability, and balance ➜Exercises to prevent knee injuries -- the most common sports injury for women ➜"Mobility Track" options for those who are off-the-couch or recovering from an injury ➜Up-level opportunities for those who are up for a challenge ➜Body-positive training focused on building capacity & functionality ➜Mindset & nervous system training to begin to tackle self-doubt, workout perfectionism, & weakest link syndrome Monday, April 12 at 4pm AKST / 8pm EST. Come live if you can, but if you can't we'll email out the recording to everyone who is registered. It's free! Follow the link in my bio to sign up. Would love to see you there! Tag a friend who might want to come too 🙏🏼👯♀️ 
I don’t always love decorations in the woods but today this heart was just what I needed. And maybe you too. 💜 
It was a sunny tank top-weather birthday ski! My brother @benhistand dropped off a b-day crown before we left for the day, the trail was smooth & fast, my body felt strong, and I soaked up every moment of it. This one really felt worth celebrating— we made it through the depth of the pandemic winter, the sun is back, and I’ve got some big intentions for next year. I love having a spring birthday- it feels like now’s when the year really starts up. way more than New Years. Thanks for being with me through this last year, and here’s to the next one!🥂🙏🏼✨. 📍Dena’ina lands 
beauty, sunshine, awe. Valdez has been showing off it’s spring glory for us ☀️ Happy Equinox! We made it. I’m celebrating all week. Tomorrow is my brother’s birthday and Friday is mine 🎉🎉 
Well, if you had a hard week you certainly weren’t alone. And you can always shake it off and walk off camera like nothing happened, or like you meant to do that. I’m taking it as a reminder that everything’s imperfect, messy, and sometimes upside down. And never stop kicking. 😆😆 thank you nature for the message! 📷: New Zealand DOC Royal Cam 
Ski Babes Spring Extension! Spring Extension is low-cost access to the Ski Babes program for Spring -- now through April 19. You don't have to be a current Ski Babes member to go for this, and in fact it's a nice low risk way to try out Ski Babes and see if it might be a fit for you next winter (or if Summer Strong will be a fit for your summer). In Spring Extension you get access to all three rounds of Ski Babes -- you choose which one to do. This year Balance Training is also included. Here's what I'd suggest for you: If you're brand new to training with me, do either Ski Babes Round One (if you're thinking of spring skiing) OR Balance Training (if you're thinking about summer adventures). If you're moving out of winter mode & ready for summer, do Balance Training -- it's a great pre-season training cycle before Summer Strong starts April 19. If you're in Ski Babes now & wrapping up Round One or Two, you can move to the next'mountain' and do your next round of training. If you did the full Ski Babes session & just finished Round Three, either take shoulder season off or move into Balance Training. And if you're planning a busy Spring with lots of spring skiing & time outside, you can use the Spring Extension to drop classes in anytime you need one, without following a particular program. Balance Training includes some yoga classes, and Ski Babes includes some Wild Soul Movement classes so there are great options for recovery days too. Feel free to share/tag friends who might be looking for a spring training option or were curious about Ski Babes but didn’t end up joining. Info is at the link in my bio! 
Have you been ‘resting’ but still aren't feeling actually rested? I love this framework, by @drdaltonsmith, for helping us expand what we consider rest to be, and find our rest gaps/opportunities: 𝐒𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐭 1) Physical Rest: Passive (naps) or active (stretching, gentle movement) 2) Mental Rest: Turning off your brain. Take breaks in the day to slow down. Write down your thoughts before bed. 3) Sensory Rest: Breaks from noise, bright lights, screens. Close your eyes for 1 min. Intentional unplugged time in the evenings. 4) Creative Rest: Free time for awe, inspiration, & flow. Nature, art, play, beauty. Ice skating on glacier lakes! 5) Emotional Rest: Time to feel your feelings & cut back on people-pleasing. 6) Social Rest: Engaging more with people who value you, and less with those who exhaust you. 7) Spiritual Rest: The ability to connect beyond the physical & mental, & feel a deep sense of love, belonging, acceptance, & purpose. Which of these feels like the most important to tend to for you these days? 📷 by @lucmehl 📍on Dena'ina land/ice #mentalhealthmatters #smhtraining #mindandmountain #alaska #wildice #nordicskating #nordicskates #yougotthis #sacredrest 
More super cool ice texture from Skilak this week. It snowed mid-week so this is probably buried now, but maybe it will blow off again! 🤞🏼 Part of the magic of wild ice is how fleeting the conditions are... I tried to soak in as much of this day as I could, like actually tried to soak it up into my cells, but still a few days later I’m hungry for more. :) 
Tbh joy has felt a bit out of reach lately. The combination of hitting the “pandemic wall” + seasonal depression that’s often a thing for me in winter but this year without travel to sunny places and all the extra isolation when I already have isolative tendencies... it’s, well, different. I have a bunch of tools and a great therapist and actually feel like I’m healing a lot these days which hopefully will make future years not as intense. But and also this week there was a window of incredible ice skating (lots of that in my story rn) on the Kenai. And maybe even more incredible than the gorgeous smooth turquoise ice was the feeling of joy & excitement that’s been elusive for me lately. Writing this not to worry anyone (but do check on your friends, y’all) but also to normalize the lows if you’re experiencing them too. These magical ice moments have been fun to share AND it’s so easy to think that that’s what we ‘should’ be feeling all the time — but in truth February can be a really hard month and you’re not doing it wrong if that’s reality for you right now. And I hope you are taking your vitamin D, getting support, and looking for your joy too. It’ll come back, if we keep looking 💜💜💎💎⛸⛸✨✨ would love to hear how your February is going, and tools you’re using these days 👇🏼👇🏼 #mentalhealthmatters #smhtraining #mindandmountain #nordicskate #seasonaldepression #alaska #alaskanwinter #seasonalaffectivedisorder #yougotthis 
@amandascgorman’s presence & words at the inauguration last week gave me so much life! And it’s true— there is always light, even on the greyest and darkest days. Here’s to seeing the light, and being the light! (Tutus always help too 😆) 📍on Dena’ina ice 📷: @lucmehl 
The sun actually felt warm today, first time since November. Marking the moment with a squinty selfie and an IG post for future dark times when it’s hard to remember that it will get better. 1.19.21. We’ve been through some hard times, friends... including the last four years of a presidency I hope our country never has to repeat. Here’s to making it through a cycle of darkness— and bring on the light! 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞 
Starting up a new session of Ski Babes today! This is our training mountain map - for this session, we've got people on all three mountains. Ski Babes is a periodized training program that gets progressively more challenging as we go. Folks joining up now for the first time will start with Round One workouts, where we build the foundation, check form & alignment a LOT. We're strengthening big muscles here, yes, but we're also re-training movement patterns, teaching the glutes to engage, building body balance & self-awareness, and strengthening the stabilizer muscles & connective tissue that contribute to our stability & injury prevention. Folks who have been training all winter or have trained with me before might jump into a different Round -- in Round Two we add more intensity and some brain games to help us be able to move with integrity AND think at the same time. Then in Round Three we keep practicing & putting it all together. There's a place for you here! Sometimes people worry if it's going to be too hard or too easy for their level, and the cool thing about the Ski Babe approach is that you get to adapt the challenge to meet your body, your goals, and your energy on that particular day. Uplevel on the good days, and take Mobility Track on the days you're not really feeling up for it but know it will be good for you to move. And THEN we do the work on mindset that helps it be okay to listen to your body and not have to go 110% all the time... that's part of the magic of sustainable & mental health-informed fitness. First workout is today & you get immediate access so follow that link in my bio if you're interested! #SkiBabesTraining #MindAndMountain #SMHTraining #SkiBabes #MentalHealthMatters #SheJumps #BackcountyBabes #SkiingIsLive #OptOutside #YouGotThis 
Who belongs in the mountains? Check out the images that show up when I search for "ski woman" in Canva. Spoiler -- there's basically NO diversity. Or even women who look like they know what they're doing and belong on skis - other than to pose with them look good. Now I want to make sure it's super clear that you don't have to be an amazing athlete or skier to recreate outside, or to be in Ski Babes (you don't even have to ski at all, actually -- we're about functionality & energy that reverberates to all parts of life). But it really does give me pause to realize how few visuals & role models we have of women -- especially women of color and women with bigger bodies -- actually OWNING their skills on the slopes. Taking up space in the outdoors. Teaching us. Modeling what's possible. If you struggle with imposter syndrome, feeling like you're not good enough, or that you don't belong in the outdoor rec world -- this is part of why. It's not just in your head -- there is a real lack of representation & acceptance of diverse ways of being outside. And systems that keep it that way (though these are changing 🤞🏼 ). I know it's just a collection of cartoon images but this is a demonstration of the larger issue. What we see shapes what we believe is possible. To end on a hopeful note: we can change this! Share your pictures, take up space, and support other women doing the same. We are the culture-makers, and the change starts with us. #mindandmountain #skibabestraining #smhtraining #backcountrybabes #shejumps #backcountryskiing #splitboarding #skibabes #diversifyoutdoors shout out to @kelly.diels for culture making language 
Ski Babes Jan/Feb Session starts on MONDAY! Check this out & see if it might be a fit you: 🔥Ski Babes: Online Training for Winter🔥 ➡️ Train from your living room ➡️ Get strong & prevent injuries ➡️ Discharge stress ➡️ Improve mood & energy ➡️ Have as much fun as possible this winter! 🤍 Online video workouts ⭐️ 3 workouts each week, all pre-recorded so you can access them anytime 🎁 Optional (but we'd love it if you could make it) LIVE ZOOM WORKOUTS 2x weekly ⏱ 35-45 minute each 🏂 Specific exercises for strength & injury prevention for outdoorsy folks 💝 Mental health-informed workouts help build nervous system capacity, grow self-awareness, & heal your relationship with your body. 🌱 Bi-weekly mindset & nutrition practices 👋🏼 My style is down-to-earth, body-positive, and mental health-informed. 👉🏼Check out the Complete the Stress Cycle Workout on my website to see if it resonates with you. 🐆 We start training Monday! Head to the link in my bio to sign up— when you do we’ll send you one of these stickers in the mail with your star chart! If you’re already signed up I’m curious, which of these components 👆🏼 was the big draw for you?? 💃🏼🍓❄️🖤🏂🤩⛸ #skibabestraining #readyforwinter #backcountryskiing #outdoorrecreation #winteriscoming #skiseason #backcountrybabes #mindandmountain #smhtraining #mentalhealthmatters #yougotthis 
New free workout for you! I've been feeling the stress in the collective these days -- and feeling it in my body too. How about you?? This ish is intense! Yesterday I got into action and recorded a new free workout that's designed to help move those damn stress chemicals out of our bodies! It's the combination of the Ski Babes/Summer Strong workout style + nervous system capacity building techniques I've been studying & incorporating into my life over the past year. These strategies have been critical for my sanity in 2020/21 and I'm excited to share them with you. After recording this I had such a buzz last night -- honestly, I hadn't fully realized how badly my system needed to dump those stress chemicals. And if that's the case for me -- and I'm studying & teaching this on a daily basis -- I'm gonna guess that it's the case for many of you too. I hope you give it a try this week & let me know how it lands in your body! If you have any amount of that full-body-energy-buzz that I had yesterday I bet you'll be psyched! Also, know this -- I'm incorporating these strategies into the live Zoom workouts that are a part of Ski Babes this winter, so if want more please consider joining up for the next session -- we start on Monday 1/18. ➡️ Link in my bio to grab this "Complete the Stress Cycle" workout for free -- and tag a friend or co-worker who might benefit from some stress relief these days (can't we all??) 🙏🏼✨⛸🖤❄️ #mentalhealthmatters #mindandmountain #skibabestraining #smhtraining #completethestresscycle #backcountrybabes #shejumps #nervoussystemhealth #yougotthis 
What a year it's been already! So the next Ski Babes session starts on Monday, and while it feels strange to talk about it in the midst of so much other urgent stuff in our world these days I’m doing it because: -- this sh*t is stressful and it can help SO MUCH to complete your stress cycles with exercise. Exercise is the most effective way to move stress chemicals out of your body so you can get out of fight/flight/freeze and back to thinking clearly about the situation. -- we need strength, resilience, AND self-awareness to be okay these challenging times. This is what Ski Babes is all about, y'all! Not the "no pain, no gain" push-through kind of strength, but grounded, aware, listening, agile strength. PS this is the kind of strength we need for mountain sports! -- outdoor time is the other balm for wild times, and it's way easier to enjoy your time outside (& not get injured) if you've been cross-training. Living room workouts FTW! -- we have an incredible community of folks who are sweating it out, sharing our struggles & wins, working to build the world we want to see, and supporting each other through this time. If loneliness or disconnection is a painful part of this winter, come do Jan & Feb with us! The video cut me off at the end but the final message is this: We're starting up the last session of Ski Babes for this winter on Monday, January 18 & would love to have you. Link in my bio! #mindandmountain #smhtraining #skibabestraining #backcountryskiing #backcountrybabes #shejumps #splitboardbabes #skibabes 
In Ski Babes right now, it's Active Recovery Week. We're between sessions (next one starts Jan 18), and the timing of ARW feels perfect given how stressful & disturbing last week was. So I want to offer ARW to you all this week if you're in a similar place. It feels like we could all use an Active Recovery Week (from life!) this week. In Ski Babes & Summer Strong we take an Active Recovery Week at the end of every 6-week build cycle. We've been training, building intensity, adding challenge, getting stronger for six weeks and it's time to chill for a bit. Integrate the lessons, let the body & mind rest & recover without taking on more challenges for the moment. (Does that not map almost too perfectly onto the experience of last week in the US too? And/or the last chunk of weeks since the election??) So the goal of Active Recovery Week to R E C O V E R. And while recovery might (does) certainly include deep rest (rest is resistance, thank you @thenapministry), 2020/21 has made it abundantly clear that there is also an ACTIVE part to most complete recovery. Especially when our stressors are ones we can't directly, physically fight or run from. And if our stress responses tend toward freeze, even more so. We have to move the stress out of our bodies. And movement can help us feel our resilience, our sturdiness, and our joy. So this week I invite you into Active Recovery with me. Anything that feels good in your body counts. Some ideas that I'll be partaking in: ⛸play outside 💜do an embodiment practice like yoga or #wildsoulmovement 💃🏼dance it out 🍓eat amazing food & savor it You could even do a Ski Babes workout (I'll put a couple replays up for you to try at the link in my bio) with the intention of completing a stress cycle. There’s really no need to add more stress & challenge these days, BUT letting your body sweat & move through intensity can help us get to the other side. Keep me posted on how Active Recovery Week goes for you! And drop other favorite active recovery activities here so we can all be inspired 👇🏼 #mentalhealthmatters #skibabestraining #skibabes #summerstrong #yougotthis #mindandmountain 
Arctic Refuge solidarity + Stickers for Conservation — take an action in solidarity with Gwich’in & Inupiat leaders today & earn a sticker (swipe to see sticker draft by Gwich’in artist Amaya Kahlo). Claim your sticker at the link in my bio! Anchorage folks if you need a printer lmk, we can print extras. @silainuat @defendthesacredak @ourarcticrefuge @native_mvmt #standwiththegwichin #inupiatgwichinsolidarity #defendthesacredak #protectthearctic 
International Day of Solidarity! Banner drop on ice ✨⛸ Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandii Goodlit, “the sacred place where life begins” went up for sale today against the wishes of Gwich’in & Inupiat land & water defenders @native_mvmt @ourarcticrefuge @defendthesacredak @silainuat It’s not too late to add your voice to support these Indigenous leaders & protect this land for future generations. Print a banner at the link in my bio and/or share the image directly. We’ll send you a sticker as a thank you (link to claim your sticker is also at link in bio)