By Patrick Przyborowski
Dear Practice Friends,
The holiday season is upon us! And my advice: enjoy. Too often, the holidays are experienced as guilty pleasure. Try this instead: For those days you have parties and family gatherings, mark them on your calendar as “free,” meaning guilt-free or care-free. And then moderate food and drink for the days you don’t have events. When you look at the page, you should see that the party days are the exception, rather than the rule. And if you actually have 16+ free days marked on your calendar for December, well….give me a call. I want to party with you, champ.
But before you light out for your holiday mixer, pick a day in early January and write “stop” in your calendar, which means that the holiday season ends then and there. Next month I’ll share some strategies for re-envisioning the New Year’s resolution!
Happy Holidays,
Patrick Przyborowski
Practice
Give the Gift of Practice
We have gift certificates available for any dollar value or package. For friends or family who have never been to Practice but are looking to make a positive change for themselves in 2011, may we suggest the New Journey Package? Only $99, it offers the new student three Pilates or yoga privates plus one matwork or yoga group class, and is a wonderful way to prepare for participation in small or large group sessions with other experienced practitioners.
Please email Patrick at pprzyborowski@gmail.com with the amount and name of the gift recipients. I’m happy to prepare them for pick up here at the studio or I can mail them to you.
Free New Year’s Matwork Class!
Get the New Year started right (or work off the grogginess from New Year’s Eve) with a free matwork class, Saturday, 1.1.11, at 10a with Patrick.
2Baby Update from Kerry:
Kerry has been bowled over by the kindness, care and support she has received from the Practice community and she asked me to share this recent photo of Henry & Quinn with you. Kerry says that they are doing very well, and that she has ”never been so sleep deprived and so happy.”
Retail Alert
We still have a few of the half zip pullovers that are perfect as a second layer for Pilates and yoga. We also have a full stock of the Pilates long pants that our female instructors wear. Perfect for winter, they look great, hold up very well, and at $48, are less than half the price of comparable product at Lulu Lemon!
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By Patrick Przyborowski
Congratulations to you on your purchase of 2 Pilates or Yoga Privates through groupon.com. We’re thrilled that you will be joining the Practice Community. To help make your first trip to the studio easy and fun, I’d like to share some information with you:
To schedule your first private appointment with one of our instructors, please call the studio at 937-432-9399. If you get the studio voicemail, please leave your name and phone number and let us know which days of the week and which times of the day work best for you and one of our instructors will call you back shortly thereafter to schedule your appointment.
For your first session, please remember to:
- Bring your groupon with you to redeem at our front counter; come in a little early so that you can fill out some necessary paperwork (I’ve added the client intake and informed consent forms as attachments below for your convenience; feel free to print, fill out, and bring with you).
- Bring socks with you (yes, comfortable pants and shirt are also required).
- Smile, you just made a great decision in joining our merry band of exercisers!
The studio is open for scheduled appointments Mon-Thurs from 7a to 8p, Fri. 7a through 2p and Saturday 7a to 12p. If you are interested also in our small group and large group classes, please feel free to download a copy of our monthly call calendar by clicking on the link of the upper left corner of this page.
On behalf of the staff and the everyone in our community, welcome to Practice!
Best wishes,
Patrick Przyborowski
Owner and instructor
practice client intake form – rev 8-2010
Practice Informed Consent – rev 8-2010
By Patrick Przyborowski
Dear Practice Friends,
The month of Thanksgiving, with its cooler weather and shorter days, also represents the beginning of the long spiral downward into holiday eating and the discontinuation of early morning exercise.
To combat this tendency, members of our Practice Strength support group made a pledge in October to finish strong, by eating well and keeping up with their practices so that they start 2011 on a better foot than they did in 2010. A wonderful goal! Even if we throw care to the wind on Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Years Eve, that still leaves us 59 opportunities to eat well and keep our bodies moving. This may rob us of an easy pick for our New Years resolution, but that’s still very good news!
Best wishes for a healthy and happy Thanksgiving,
Patrick Przyborowski
Class Changes
Here are our class revisions for November:
- Joy’s yoga classes are canceled for Thursday, November 4th and Friday, November 26th.
- The Jumpboard Interval Class on Wednesdays at 530p is discontinued for the fall season.
FREE YOGA CLASS! In honor of the election day, Joy will be offering a free mixed level Hatha Yoga class, on Tuesday, November 2nd at 7p. Go place your vote, then stretch out with Joy’s yoga before heading home to watch the results!
Community News
Get your Vote on: Tuesday, November 2nd is mid-term election Day. Please be sure to include some time in your schedule for Tuesday to place your vote.
Nancy Knickerbocker ran like the wind in Columbus two weeks ago. Brent Johnson, Joan Wire, and Patrick kicked it hard at the Bourbon Chase last weekend. And many Practice friends danced the night away at Masquerage, including Brent Johnson, Tim Farquhar, Juetta West, Jack Omer, and Michael Arthur.
Happy Birthday Practice! I’m happy to say our second anniversary is on November 17th. Thank you for continuing to support us; we couldn’t do it without you!
Coming up on November 21st, our very own Juetta West, a Ben-gal alumnus will be performing with 180 pat and present Ben-gals during the half-time celebration of the Cincinnati Bengals-Buffalo Bills game in Cincy. The game starts at 1p; come join us! See http://www.bengals.com/schedule/season-schedule.html for tickets.
Don’t be shy! If you have news you would like to share with the Practice community, please reply to Patrick at pprzyborowski@gmail.com; we’d love to include you.
Social Opps
The Turkey Trot in Miamisburg is a blast and one of the best ways to enjoy a guilt free turkey dinner. See http://orrrc.org/ for details and registration. This year the 5 mile race is limited to the first 7,000 runners, so be sure to sign up soon.
If you haven’t seen the Human Race Theatre’s production of The 39 Steps yet, you should! It is a wonderful comedy with 4 actor’s playing over a hundred roles. We were there last Thursday and enoyed ourselves immensely. This show is in the Loft Theatre, right next door to the Victoria Theater, and runs until November 7th. See http://www.humanracetheatre.org/ for details and tickets.
If you have an event in Dayton that you are organizing or are planning to attend and would love to see some other Practitioners there, please email Patrick with the deets!
Practice Calendar 11-2010
