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The Benefits of a Mastermind

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MASTERMIND.

Here at VFit Studio we believe in health for the whole self: mind, body, and spirit. We deliver functional workouts over 70 times a week and these connect us with in real time with our team.

For an enhanced membership experience, to bring connection even further, we also have opportunities for our community members to join Mastermind groups. These groups are formed based on different program or membership experiences and help our members engage, learn, and lean on one another in a variety of program formats and options.

The Mastermind group opportunities we have for our members include:

  • VFit Connect – year round enhanced membership experience with includes 2 weekly community corner sessions a week, a monthly wellness workshop, and monthly manifest Monday meditation session
  • Ascent – a 100 day challenge that runs in the late winter/early spring that connects teams of 10-15 together with a wellness coach to work together to hold one another accountable in working towards personal goals
  • 6 Month Challenge + Holiday Hustle – accountabilty challenges based on either 6 months or from Halloween to New Years, that brings together small groups of VFitters along with wellness coaches to work on check in goals and team building. Spoiler alert … In 2022, we will host our first Holiday Hustle!

We continue to work to find new ways to bring together smaller groups of our community to foster more connections and bring together shared experiences.

Below, we have all the letters that spell out mastermind explained and use our CONNECT membership enchancement as a basis to give more concrete examples of how each part of a mastermind benefits the members that are a part of it.

M

MENTORSHIP –  Having mentors around you is going to keep pulling you upwards.

Each of us is a master at something.

During our CONNECT sessions, we we are able to share our expertise with one another and learn from others .

You can find a mentor in so many areas of life through CONNECT, and you can be a mentor to others.

Chance are if you are facing something big or small, someone on the CONNECT team has already navigated those waters and can help you learn from their lessons and experience.

A

ACTION – if you are not a part of a group aligned with similar values, chance are at some point you won’t take action and will get stale or stuck.

You need the right support team to be by your side to keep you in ACTION.

This is part of this year’s mantra.  Action.  Are you putting in the work for your goals?

Your CONNECT team is here year round to keep you accountable, taking action towards you goals and dreams.

S

SUPPORT – CONNECT offers a big added level of support and structure, that is consistently there year round to hold you up.

A mastermind is your safe place to bring your challenges and let others in to help you find solutions.

The support in CONNECT is through the VFit trainer team AND other members of this mastermind and something you can count on in this add-on membership experience.

T

TEAM – Take it to the next level with a smaller group that is your TEAM.  Your go-to group that you can rely on and know you can connect with twice a week, plus two live specialty monthly sessions.

What you get out of the team experience is what you put in!  This goes two ways.

There’s a huge benefit to leaning into teams and growing together.  A rising tide brings up all ships, and this team is your tide to help you up-level your health and well being all year round.

E

EXCELLENCE – We aren’t talking about aiming for perfection here, but honoring progress.

Continuing to work on yourself and honoring that work in progress you are.

Without being a part of a group who are sharing goals with each other, there’s a tendency for excuses to start piling up and many of us can slide back into old, familiar habits, losing ground on personal goals and development.

R

RESULTS –  A lot of the results and reward in working towards a goal are all those incremental steps you took to get there.

Think of hitting a large goal like running a marathon.  Don’t imagine and celebrate the end result of yourself just during actual race, but picture yourself pushing through each moment, each practice run, to keep going.  Even showing up on the days when you just don’t want to.

That push, those mini-wins along the way, all add up to your end result and those pivotal moments are all something to be celebrated as benchmarks you’ve set out for yourself.

M

MANIFESTATION – Whether you believe in manifesting and bringing your vision to life or not, hear us out.  There is real power in this – it’s called the power of attraction.

Our brains are powerful beyond belief and help you connect the dots once you start putting your dreams out there.  When we are in tune and alignment with our dreams, it’s 10,000X more times more likely to happen.

Having a group to support you, to share your dreams with, to push through with, to help you believe in YOU – is so important.

I

INSPIRATION – We all need extra inspiration at times.  Whether you have hit a slump or bump in your road, having people around you that can help you when you are needing the extra inspo is huge asset.

Looking for a new book? New job? Taking on a new project at the kids school? Getting through a funk?

Masterminds can help you grow your inspo tank as well, by bringing fresh ideas, support, and to lend a hand.  Share it and let your inspiration grow and take shape.

N

NETWORKING – Not in the traditional, salesy sense, but in working in a deeper level with people who have been through similar trials and tribulations you have been through.

Connecting through shared experiences to hep cope with grief, tackle the transition from working life to retirement, to the everyday demands of life.

Those with shared expertise or going through similar life events are a big component of the mastermind.  Connecting virtually or in person with one another is made possible through the group.

Networking together helps you know more people and possibly explore new places to build deeper relationships.  Whether it is new career paths, new friendships, or learning how to build stronger family ties.

This is a special network for you to be a part of and grow, to lean on if you need one, and to help you expand your comfort zone.

D

DEVELOPMENT – You are never so good at something, that there’s no room to grow and improve.

Working on personal development gives you something to look forward to and new goals to stride for.

Personal and professional development opportunities are part of the mastermind experience.

Monthly workshops are crafted to help you grow each month and weekly sessions provide opportunity for spontaneous sharing of resources and connections.

Sharing our expertise, giving you resources and material to help you grow and develop is at the heart of a mastermind.

First Friday’s Wellness Cafe Round Up: The Kinetic Chain and Posture, How to Stop Body Bashing, and Marma Points

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The Wellness Cafe at VFit Studio has been in full swing this spring with two excellent sessions held in May and June.

In May, Lauren and Maria hosted the Wellness Cafe with insights on the following two areas:

  • the kinetic chain and posture led by Maria, sharing insights on functional movement and body balance and imbalances and how to work to correct them
  • how to stop body bashing with Lauren with insightful prompts and tips on how to combat this negative self talk led by Lauren

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After the presentations, there was an excellent live session discussion focused on negative self talk, thank you all who attended for sharing and we will bring this topic back in the future for round 2.

In June, Shari led as a guest host in the cafe with a conversation and presentation on marma points. She led us through a thorough presentation and why these areas on our body are important then we went through the top 10 marma points together. This was an eye opening and powerful exercise and a great introduction to this concept which was new to many of us in attendance.

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First Friday’s Wellness Cafe: Special Guest Misa with 12 tips for raising healthy eaters

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For our April First Friday’s Wellness Cafe we had a special guest, VFitter Misa from New Hampshire, who shared 12 tips for raising healthy eaters. Misa is passionate about helping kids find joy in exploring eating a wide variety of foods and shared her personal story of what led her to create Misa’s Clean Kitchen as we began the cafe. Her youngest daughter was diagnosed with failure to thrive which led Misa down a path of exploration and deciation to better understand the impact that food choices made on our bodies. She went on to become a certified nutrition coach and open Misa’s Clean Kitchen to share her new knowledge with others.

We have the full replay below for you to soak in all the goodness of Misa’s 12 tips.

We also have the Google slides that Misa used for her presentation if you’d like to go through the slides to read through each of the tips! Click here to view the slides of the presentation.

Thank you again Misa for being a guest host in the Wellness Cafe! Join us next month as Lauren and Maria share live demos of tips and tricks that have helped their clients in reaching their wellness goals on May 6th at 8:30 AM PST.

First Friday’s Wellness Cafe: Ayruveda 101 with Lindsay

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This month in the VFit Studio First Friday’s Wellness Cafe with Lauren and Maria we were honored to let Lindsay M take over the cafe with a special workshop on Ayruveda.

As Ayruveda has helped Lindsay personally navigate the changing of seasons of life, she has put her focus in the Signature Series here at VFit with working one on one as a coach to assist those looking to deepen their understanding of their own constitutions and use yoga and Ayruveda principles to help restore balance and harmony in their lives.

Below, we have the full replay of Linday’s Ayruveda 101 Workshop in the Wellness Cafe:

Lindsay culled her own personal knowledge along with the following book as part of her workshop, Practical Ayurveda: Find Out Who You Are and What You Need to Bring Balance to Your Life by the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre.

Lindsay’s Slides are available here for viewing here.

To learn more or explore ways to work directly with Lindsay, her one on one coaching services are available through the VFit Studio Signature Series.

Join us next month for the VFit Studio First Friday’s Wellness Cafe when Lauren and Maria have guest host and VFit member Misa from Misa’s Clean Kitchen as she shares information on her specialty area of adding healthy food to kids (and OUR) plates, by providing strategies to make healthier food more appealing and fun for all.

First Friday’s Wellness Cafe: Revisiting Wellness Intentions and Mindset Shifts

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Tune in to the full replay of the VFit Studio First Friday’s Cafe with Lauren and Maria up above.

For the February installment of the First Friday’s Wellness Cafe with Lauren and Maria, the duo revisited the idea of setting intentions, goal setting, and mindset shifts from their January session.

Self improvement by means of setting intentions is a powerful activity, but is often challenging to achieve without support and a framework to work from. Throughout the Wellness Cafe session, we held an open dialogue about how our experience has been with setting intentions so far in 2022, and shared different resources that have helpd us.

Lauren shared that after the January session she revisited her feelings about walking and shifted her mindset of it being done as low impact workout or recovery exercise to getting in quality me time, outdoors, ALONE through her neighbhorhood. This mindset shift has turned this marathoner and HIIT-workout lover into a neighborhood walker and she’s now hooke on getting in her walking time.

Maria shared in the Cafe about how last year she focuse on two words as intention: flow and connection. Each of these words encompassed different areas of her life and actions she wanted to focus on and brought many of her 2021 goals to light. This year by leaning in on these two words again, while out with her sister having brunch, she was introduced to a home care cleaning and maintenance program that’s been really working for Maria to have a system for taking care of the house. It’s been a game changer for her, and a few other members were familiar with it – Fly Lady. Maria’s been using the Fly Lady app and following along with the morning, afternoon, and evening homecare habits along with the zone cleaning areas and it’s made a world of difference in her sense of peace at home.

Other members shared their power words and intentions for the year and took the opportunity to open up on goal setting and empowerment. Thank you to all who were able to join us and your continued support with the Wellness Cafe Series. We look forward to returning in March with more wellness goodness to share!

If you have any tips on setting intentions, goal planning, or would like to share your words or personal mantra for the year, we’d love to hear from you. Please feel free to comment below and share this blog and replay with those in your life who you think would enjoy this positive message of growth mindset, self improvement, and self care being critical care and not being selfish.

First Friday’s Wellness Cafe: Setting Intentions for the New Year

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We kicked off 2022 in the First Friday’s Wellness Cafe with Lauren and Maria focused on intentions for the New Year. With a focus on a short and long view for goals, our conversation flowed and worked on brainstorming personal goals and intentions, with a shift in mindset from a classic New Year’s resolution.

We have included the full slides that were used by Lauren and Maria during the session which include many prompts and brainstorming ideas for the upcoming year:

We also have below the full replay of the session below. During this 30 minute session, Lauren and Maria share ideas on the topic and there’s member engagement and sharing about ideas to set intentions for the year:

During the live session, a few other resources and comments were shared by members. We have them included below:

Sarah Z shared the following:

A good video to help you understand how to dig deeper and figure out why you want to do something….called 7 layers deep. It’s so good. I will share it here as it can help you with what Lauren is sharing:
https://youtu.be/Sv882g7UVQE

Kristin A shared a great New York Times article about our human desire to do an annual instinct to improve eating.

https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20220107&instance_id=49661&nl=the-morning&productCode=NN&regi_id=84225412&segment_id=78932&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2F24640e1a-d7a1-5738-b879-173bfe80fa46&user_id=dad5236cf145bc250375e6bb767b776a

Linda A shared a journal that has been working well for her called The 5 Minute Journal which has worked well for her to get into the daily habit of journaling.

For planning out the year with weekly and daily goal setting, many members have picked up the VFit Annual Compass Planner. For those still looking for a comprehensive planner these are still available for sale as a PDF download.

NorCal Mexican Quinoa Salad

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When VFitters get together, they bring the fun and the healthy food to share! This dish was part of the NorCal VFit get together and is a MUST MAKE! Chock full of nutrient dense and delicious ingredients, this is a real crowd pleaser and perfect to bring to a pot luck. Thank you Linda S for sharing! This is from the cookbook Soups and Sides by Catherine Walthers.

Dream Believe Do Repeat

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It has been SOOOOOOO hard keeping this in, but the time has finally come to share our 2022 VFit “Mantra of the Year!”

We do not take lightly to choosing these each year. After all, the powerful words we are called to set as out mantra, set the underlying tone for an entire year around here.

Sweat, Smile, Shine was one that would be hard to out-do and will be grandfathered in as a permanent tag line of VFit.

But as we head in 2022, nearly 2 years into a pandemic and where every single person has gone through some major life shifts and transformations, we have a calling to: Dream, Believe, DO, Repeat!

VFit is a one of a kind community, we need a one of a kind mantra!

In fact, we went back and forth many times on the trainer team, with many good mantra’s but none of them gave us the chills we needed!

Then Rachele hit to her 2021 vision board and there it was front and center! Words she had been staring out all year long, without realized the true power they held.

Dream

When we have dreams within our mind, body and souls, we are alive! Having dreams/goals gives us emotions, it keep us uncomfortable, it reminds us that we have more potential than we even realize in this life. It all starts with a dream within…….

Believe

But a dream is just a wish, until we start believing in ourselves, in those around us and when we have that unshakeable faith that….

YES I CAN!

DO

DO = action! It means doing the things day in and day out that will proper you closer to the dream you believe in. It means that you are willing to show up for yourself on that days you don’t feel like it, that when you fall down, you

have built the tenacity to get back up.

DO is a sum of the choices/actions you make day in and day out, that make up the quality of your life.

Repeat

We say this often in classes… “repetition produces results.” You do not do something one, 2 even 100 times and become proficient in that area.

We are what we repeat, and repeating the positive habits in your life on a regular basis, WILL change you life for the long term.

Focus on your “best practices list,” meaning what are the actions, that when done on a regular basis, leave you feeling and living your best life.

If you fall down 99 times, get back up 100 and repeat the habit of not giving up on YOU!

While we know a new year will bring much that we didn’t plan for, or that is out of our control, we firmly believe the power of these words will keep us united as a community and #VFITSTRONG in 2022!

First Friday’s Wellness Cafe

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Mood Boosting Foods, Exercising in Cooler Weather, and the Eating Arch

The First Friday’s Wellness Cafe is alive and well here at VFit, with VFit trainers and coaches Lauren and Maria each take a stab at sharing some self care and wellness tips each month.

In November, the themes covered by this dueo was mood boosting foods, presented by Lauren and exercising in cooler weather, presented by Maria.

We have the full Google Slides presentation here:

Mood-Bboosting-Foods-Exercising-in-Cooler-WeatherDownload

Or, if you prefer to hear the full talk which concludes with a Q + A session with Lauren and Maria, we have the full YouTube Video recording here:

For the December edition of First Friday’s Wellness Cafe, Lauren and Maria presented the Eating Arch concept which encompasses the full cycle of eating and nutrition which they developed in partnership with Trainer and health coach Christine earlier this year.

To view the full slide slides and full YouTube replay below slides:

The-Eating-ArchDownload

And to view the full YouTube video of the presentation and Q + A:

We hope you enjoy takingin some of these concepts and topics. If you have ideas for future Wellness Cafe series themes, do not hesitate to reach out to Maria maria [at] thevfitstudio.com or message me on Facebook.

Also, if you’d like to dive deeper into any of these topics and work one on one, or in a small group, or in tandem with Lauren and Maria as part of the VFit Signature Series, reach out and we can help create a space and package that meets your unique needs.

Thank you again for supporting the First Friday’s Wellness Cafe series team!

xoxo

Lauren + Maria

  • The Benefits of a Mastermind

    The Benefits of a Mastermind

    For an enhanced membership experience, to bring connection even further, we also have opportunities for our community members to join Mastermind groups.

Why Real Connection Matters in Fitness

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Not getting the fitness results you want with yourself current plan?!

This may be why👇

A series of code isn’t going to help you get the fitness results you are looking for…

We’re seeing a big trend in infusing tech with at home fitness, by using AI and the celeb factor.

While that is great for a lot of things, it won’t work for most people to be successful and get the results they want in the long term for maintaing health and wellness. We are humans and are geared for REAL connection.

A real, authentic community is what really sets us apart from what’s out there in the marketplace as you shop around and consider what your next fitness program will be.

Since day 1, we’ve valued knowing our members names and hosting our live workouts on Zoom so we can safely guide our members through each class.We know our members kids and grandkids names, and have had the opportunity to watch many grow up through the last 6 years.

If you’ve missed class, we check in on you if it’s been a while to make sure everything is okay.

Our members travel with us and take us on vacations, that’s just how commited they are.

A true test of your fitness plan is if it “works” out when life is out of the norm. When you find a platform that works for you and helps you biuld that consistent workout habit, that’s what you do. Your entire lifestyle changes.

With our members rehabbing from injuries or coming back from maternity leave, our live instructors are there making sure to provide modifications for them to get in their workouts alongside the entire live team.

We celebrate our members birthdays and they get to coordinate with our instructors who host birthday celebrations in class. We truly know our members. You can’t replace that with algorithms and avatar stats.

We aren’t robots. We aren’t celebrities.

Right now, REAL connection and support is needed more than ever.

Our members keep coming back because of that human connection we offer. It’s heartfelt. Authentic. And not something you can code.

Your workouts can be virtual and from home, but if you wonder why “the glam and glitz” isn’t keeping you motivated – you may need to change your approach.