December News (2010)

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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Welcome Groupies!

By Patrick Przyborowski

November News (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 17^th. Thank you for continuing to support us; we couldn’t do it without you!

Coming up on November 21^st, 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 7^th. 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!

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October News (2010)

By Patrick Przyborowski

Dear Practice Friends,

Welcome to autumn! Thanks so much for your feedback about last month’s updates. People enjoyed both the Practice community news and social opportunities, and I plan to include them whenever there is news to report. We do have some class changes and more for October:

• Class changes:

• Joy’s Level 2 Hatha Yoga on Thursdays will now start at 7p.
• The Hatha Yoga Level 1 class on Tuesdays at 7p has been moved to Thursdays at 6p.
• The Thursday 11a TRX/Mat combo class has been discontinued for the fall. Please join us for the TRX class on Fridays at 11a instead!
• Kitty Snow will be taking over the Wednesday Group Reformer Class at 7p.

• Retail: We have a great looking half zip pullover as well as more of our long pants for the fall and winter; expect them on the shelves in approximately two weeks!

Practice Community News:

• A very special shout out goes to Skip Snow, Dayton’s rock star senior amateur golfer, who racked up three big wins (and another near-win) over the last month: Runner Up in the Senior Porter Cup in western New York; Winner in the Super Senior Division of the Senior Azalea Amateur Golf Tournament in Charleston, SC; Winner of his 20^th Dayton Country Club Championship; winning team (Miami Valley) of the Ohio Intrastate Championship at Firestone CC in Akron. NEWSFLASH: The new Golfweek Magazine Senior Amateur rankings are out, and they have ranked Skip No. 2 in the nation for the Super Senior Division (ages 65+). Congrats, Skip (and thank you for the update, Kitty)!
• Nancy Knickerbocker achieved a personal record of 2:59:46 in The Nation’s Triathlon in Washington, DC, on September 12^th, breaking the 3 hour mark for an Olympic distance triathlon for the first time since she began training in 2003! For an encore, Nancy will be running the Columbus Half Marathon in 2 weeks. Congrats and good luck, Nancy!
• The Bourbon Chase: Brent Johnson, Joan Wire and Patrick will be part of a 12-person team from Dayton participating The Bourbon Chase, a 200 mile relay race around bourbon and horse country in Kentucky, that starts on Friday, October 22^nd and ends on Saturday afternoon, October 23^rd. Wish us luck!

Social Opportunities:

• 2 fantastic plays at the Human Race Theatre Company: I have the good fortune to be on the Artistic Committee for the Human Race Theatre Company, Dayton’s only professional theater. We spend the fall and winter each year reading scripts and narrowing selections for the following season (a bit of trivia: I have a master’s degree in playwriting). I love the quality of the work that HRTC produces, and I’m especially thrilled with the choices that the committee made for this 2010-2011 season. If you’ve never had the opportunity to check out one of the real gems of our city, you now have two chances in October:
  • August: Osage County – ‘The saga of the Weston family of Oklahoma and its many issues – and, boy, do they have issues – won five Tony Awards and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and The Human Race and Wright State University Theatre are combining to make Dayton one of the first regional sites to present Tracy Letts’ masterpiece.” The show opened to wonderful reviews September 29^th and runs through the end of this week, October 10^th. This show is bring presented at Wright State University’s Festival Playhouse in the Creative Arts Center. See www.humanracetheatre.org for further info including show times and how to order tickets.
  • The 39 Steps – From the Human Race Theatre web site: “Combine the styles of two of the greatest British exports – Alfred Hitchcock and Monty Python – and set four performers loose to play more than 150 characters, and you’ve got one of the funniest shows to hit the stage this millennium.” The 39 Steps opens Oct. 21^st and runs through Nov. 7 and is performed downtown at the Loft. I’ll be there with Deb Thursday, October 28^th. If you get tickets for the same night, maybe we can meet up for dinner before the show. Again, see www.humanracetheatre.org for ticket info and directions to the Loft.
  • Masquerage 2010, October 16th: One of the best events of the entire year, Masquerage is a fantastic night of costumes, dancing and entertainment. See http://www.masquerage.org/ for details.

Best wishes,

Patrick

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September News (2010)

By Patrick Przyborowski

Dear Practice Friends,

There is much to report for September happenings related to Practice, some inside the studio, and some out in the community. Beyond the usual changes in the calendar, this month I’m adding some kudos for Practitioners who made news in August, as well as two special invitations:

• New appointment and class reminders by email: Starting September 1, our online reservation system will forward you a reminder of your session or class, either by email or text, one day in advance. If you would like to have your reminders sent to you by text, please reply to me at pprzyborowski@gmail.com and make sure I have your cell phone number as well the name of your mobile service provider. Please remember that the 24-hour advanced cancellation notice is still the policy for our studio and is necessary to avoid being charged for any appointment or group class that you have reserved.
• Class changes: For the month of September we’re keeping the Level 2 Hatha Yoga on Thursdays at 715p; the Yoga on the Ball class on Tuesdays at 7p has been renamed Hatha Level 1 to indicate that it is an easier class than Thursday’s, but will still incorporate stability ball work; the Pilates Matwork class on Thursdays at 6p is discontinued. Finally, there will not be Pilates Matwork class on Labor Day, September 6.

Practice Community News:

• A special thank you is owed to Patty Zimmer and Kitty Snow for hosting the two wonderful (I wasn’t there but I heard good things!) baby showers for our Kerry Young. Thank you Patty and Kitty!
• Kudos to Judy Wyatt, who’s Whispers Home in Oakwood, has received Best of Intima’s 2010 Best Shop award. Best of Intima, an Italian trade organization, sponsors the event supported by 15 lingerie brands from around the world. The Best Shop Awards was created as an opportunity to honor and discover the best independent retailers across the United States. Congratulations, Judy and the Whisper Home staff!
• I am thrilled to see Vail Miller, Dayton CEO and Corporate Chief Marketing Officer of Heidelberg Distributing Co., on the cover of the August DaytonB2B magazine. When asked by interviewer Mark Fisher to offer some advice to other business owners on the subject of healthy competition, Vail encouraged business owners to ask themselves, “Does [my] Mission, Vision and Company Values support creativity, performance and a competitive spirit?” When I read this quote, I felt like Vail was speaking to me directly about Practice. Thank you, Vail!
• Dayton’s only James Beard Award winning chef, Anne Kearney, continues to garner attention nationally: the September issue of Bon Appétit magazine has listed Rue Dumaine as a spot for fantastic daily specials. I can confirm this, her daily specials are fantastic! But don’t believe me, find out for yourself. When, you say? How about a week from Saturday (see below)?

Social Opportunities:

• Come help me celebrate my birthday! I’m turning 45 on Saturday, September 11^th and I would love it if you would join me for a drink or something to eat. Here’s my cunning plan: My partner Deb Spiegel and I will be at Rue Dumaine, www.ruedumainerestaurant.com,  from 6p till the cows come home. We’ll sit at the corner of the bar for a while and then meander over to a table in the dining room for a great meal. If you would like to join us for a drink, stop by early and say hi. If you would like find out why Bon Appetit has named Rue Dumaine as a great spot for daily specials, then please stay for dinner! Chef Anne has implored me not to make reservations for twenty people to be sat at the same time as it will overload the kitchen. So as a birthday gift to me, please be so kind as to call the restaurant for a reservation (937) 610-1061. Even if we’re sitting a few tables away I promise to come visit you, especially if you order dessert!  
• His Holiness the 14^th Dalai Lama, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Gold Medal for championing the people of Tibet, will be giving a public address entitled “Ethics in a Modern World,” at Miami University on Thursday, October 21, at 2p in Millet Hall. In his commitment to the promotion of basic human values in the interest of human happiness and the fostering of inter-religious harmony, the Dalai Lama serves as a source of inspiration for people of all cultures. I know a number of people at the studio have expressed interest in attending, and I thought it would be easiest to coordinate tickets and transportation. Tickets are $25.00 and go on sale September 8^th. If you would like to join us, reply to me at pprzyborowski@gmail.com by September 7^th and let me know how many tickets you would like. We will likely leave from the studio around 1145 am on 10/21. I hope you can make it!

Whew, that was a lot! I hope you have a wonderful Labor Day weekend and I look forward to practicing with you in cooler weather in the weeks to come.

Best wishes,

Patrick

p.s. Here is the updated calendar for September 2010:

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Welcome Groupies!

By Patrick Przyborowski

Congratulations to you on your purchase of the 3 Yoga or Pilates Matwork class package 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:

Our monthly class calendar can be found in the top left corner of this blog page. Look for a button that says “Monthly Class Schedule and Rates.” Click on this and you can then download pdfs of the most recent class calendar and the 2010 rate card that lists all of the types of packages we offer at the studio. Check out the Pilates Matwork and yoga classes that are offered Mon, Tues, Thurs, Friday and Saturday. For your first class, you can call the studio to check on availability for the class you would like to take. Once you have redeemed your groupon at the studio and are entered in our system as a client with a paid package, you will be able to sign up for classes online via our internet scheduler.

For your first class, 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!

You can attend our Pilates matwork and yoga classes on a walk in basis, though our class size limit is 15 practitioners, so it’s a great idea to sign up in advance via our internet scheduler, Mindbody Online.  For step by step instructions on how to use the scheduler, go  click on the “Visit Practice Website” button to the lef t of this post, then click on “Getting Started” on the homepage which will walk you through the scheduling process. (Note: You will want to make sure that you have already contacted the studio once to make sure we have your groupon voucher number and name entered in our system before you can use the scheduler.) If you are not tech savvy, don’t worry, you can always call into the studio or email me directly with inquiries at pprzyborowski@gmail.com.

On behalf of the staff and the everyone in our community, welcome to Practice!

Best wishes,

Patrick Przyborowski

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August News (2010)

By Patrick Przyborowski

Dear Friends,

I’ve been happy to hear from our clients on vacations in Michigan, the Carolinas, Florida, West Coast and more that everyone is enjoying their summer vacations immensely and that’s great news! With the return of kids to school in the next few weeks our activity level will increase here at the studio so I’m passing a reminder to make sure that you’ve got your appointment and class times locked in for the fall.

Two weeks ago we had the staff of Up & Running over for a round-robin workout with our staff, a meeting of the body-minds for sure! I’m enclosing a photo of the group to share. As you will see, even after the workout, we are a happy bunch! As a really neat alternative to staff meeting, consider bringing them into Practice for a workout, followed by lunch from your favorite local restaurant:

• We offer a 60-90 minute session for up to 16 people at once.
• Your staff divides into groups of up to four people who will rotate through 4 separate stations, working with a different instructor on each of the following apparatus: Pilates Reformer, Pilates Stability Chair, Pilates Matwork, and TRX Suspension Trainer. We then offer a cool down session of yoga.
• We arrange lunch on your behalf from a local vendor.
• Contact me at the studio for pricing and scheduling.

For those of you who are burning up your treads on the hot summer asphalt, consider a pair of fall running shoes at Up & Running in Washington Square Plaza: www.upandrunningindayton.com

Here’s more updates for August at Practice:

• Groupon.com promotion – Groupon.com is a website where you can sign up to receive a deal a day from businesses in the Dayton area. The deal each day is for services or products at least 50% off. For new clients to Practice, Groupon.com will be offering a 3 Mat/Yoga class package for $21 this Thursday, August 5th. If you have a friend or family member who is interested in Pilates or Yoga and might like an inexpensive way of seeing if Pilates or Yoga is a good fit for them, the Groupon.com promotion is a great way to start. You can also buy the package for your family member or friend as a gift. The limit is one person, but you can buy more than one to give to multiple friends.
• In anticipation of increased traffic in our matwork and yoga classes, we are adding two extra classes in August: Pilates Matwork class on Thursdays at 6p and Hatha Yoga Level 2 on Thursdays at 715p (see attached class calendar for course description).
• We have one class cancellation, Joy Karl’s Friday Hatha Yoga class on August 20th. Yoga resumes on Tuesday, August 24th
• SALE: Our capri pants are 20% off! We have two models, Bella, and Alo, sale priced at $30 and $40 respectively.
• Congrats to Joy Karl, who passed her Apprentice Level 2 Exams last week!! Joy, Kitty and Leslie are now in the homestretch, studying for their STOTT PILATES® Certification exams this winter.

Best wishes,

Patrick

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June News (2010)

By Patrick Przyborowski

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Dear Friends,

Father’s Day is coming up in a few weeks, and Kitty reminded me to suggest gift certificates for Practice as a great thank you to dad for a job well done this year!

Additionally, we’re offering a free matwork class for Dad’s on June 19th (see below). And for the ladies, there’s fun to be had at the Dude Girl Run. Here’s what’s new in June at Practice:

• Special Father’s Day Matwork Class with Kitty Snow on Saturday, June 19th, 10a: Moms, bring your husband with you for free!
• Retail alert: We now have our capri pants in for summer! We have two models, Bella, and Alo, priced $38 and $50. respectively.
• Ladies, join us for the 2nd Annual Dude Girl Run on Sunday, June 13th at 9am at Sugarcreeek Reserve. Kitty, Kerry, and Patrick will be there offering post-run stretching for participants. Please see www.upandrunning.com for details.
• The Saturday TRX/Mat Combo class at 11a has been discontinued for the summer.
• Joy’s will be on vacation from June 26 to July 10: Yoga on the Ball and Hatha Yoga classe are cancelled during this time period (6/29, 7/2, 7/6, and 7/9)

A last announcement: Practice is now on Facebook! If you have an account, please become a fan of the studio. Look under search for Practice, or better yet, just cut and paste this link:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dayton-OH/Practice/241888812658?success=1

And if you do enjoy Facebook, please friend me as well: I’m under Patrick Przyborowski.

I hope everyone has a wonderful month!

-Patrick

May News (2010)

By Patrick Przyborowski

Hi All,

With Mother’s Day approaching our instructors asked me to remind all of our husbands and sons that a Practice gift certificate makes a wonderful present. You can call in this week and we’ll have them prepared for you when you drop by. Kerry and I have been to several continuing education trainings in April and have a number of new workouts to share with moms, including athletic conditioning on the reformer, stability ball challenge, jumpboard interval training II, and (for the dads) Pilates for men. Please join us!

Here’s what’s new for May at Practice:

• Special Mother/Child Matwork Class with Kitty Snow on Saturday, May 8th: Moms, bring your kids with you for free! (Yes, even if they are over 30 they still count!).
• Matwork on Monday, May 31 has been cancelled for the Memorial Day holiday.
• Joy’s Hatha Yoga class is cancelled for Friday May 28th only.
• The Tuesday Matwork class has been discontinued for the summer.

And a reminder about upcoming events at Up & Running (Washington Square) in which we are participating:

• Our yoga Instructor, Joy Karl, will be offering a post-run yoga class at the store on Saturday, May 15th at 830a for those runners participating in the weekly group run that Up & Running hosts. If you are interested please bring your running shoes and a towel as we will be stretching outside! The run start at 7a.
• Members of the Practice staff will have a warm up/cool down area at the annual Dude Girl Trail Run at Sugarcreek Reserve on June 13th. Details TBA.
• A number of clients have expressed an interest in purchasing their own TRX’s for home use. To make things easier, I’m including a link to the Fitness Anywhere website: http://www.fitnessanywhere.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=SFNT&Store_Code=buy-trx&AFFIL=practice

I hope everyone has a great Mother’s day, Cinco de Mayo and Memorial Day.

Best wishes,

Patrick

February News (2010)

By Patrick Przyborowski

Dear Practice Friends,

Our February Calendar is now out and you can now download it by clicking on the “Monthly Class Calendar” button in the top left hand corner of this blog page. Then click on the link to the pdf for the most recent monthly calendar.

February promises to be a busy months here at Practice. To make space for those who are making good on their New Year’s resolutions, we’ve added 6 more classes to our weekly schedule:

• 4 New TRX/Matwork Combo Classes: Monday at 1p, Thursday 4p and 7p, and Saturday at 11a.
• New Group Reformer & Equipment Class: Tuesdays at 12p
• New 30 minute Jumpboard Class: Wednesdays at 530p

Congrats to Leslie and Kitty for completing their TRX training! Starting in February, Kitty and Leslie will move to training in Cadillac Chairs and Barrels, and Joy Karl will start her Matwork training this month as well. A big congrats also goes out to Kerry, who passed her Advanced Reformer exam, and is now just one module away from being fully certified in Level 2 STOTT PILATES.

I hope everyone has a wonderful President’s Day and/or Valentines Day!

Best wishes,

Patrick