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| Address | Registration required. Please click here to register. |
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| Audience | Adults |
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| Language | English |
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| Summary | Yoga instructor and fitness expert Nicole Tsong will talk with Irie Love about a variety of fun ways you can add more movement into your everyday life. |
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| Description | The event is presented in partnership with Elliott Bay Book Company. This event is supported by The Seattle Public Library Foundation and author series sponsors the Gary and Connie Kunis Foundation. Thanks to media sponsor The Seattle Times.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Your body is made to move and is designed to adapt to a range of activity--climbing, sprinting, carrying heavy things, walking long distances. Yet today we move less than ever before.
Yoga instructor and fitness expert Nicole Tsong wants to change that. She has tried hundreds of different types of movement and in this new guide, she shares which of those are the most fun, accessible, and body-beneficial. Detailing two new activities for each month of the year, she describes her own experiences trying each movement, then lays out a road map for readers to embark on a similar adventure, starting at beginner level and moving up through "Reach" and "Adventure" goals. For example, readers can choose to walk 35 to 40 minutes twice a week for the whole month, or they can slowly increase mileage each week working up to a 10-, 15, or 20-mile challenge. Tsong also offers quick tips for getting started, basic gear needs and costs, and a "Discovery" section with questions, prompts, and journal space so readers can explore their own movement journeys.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Known for a playful, accessible approach to fitness, health, and wellness, Nicole Tsong wrote the popular column "Fit for Life" in The Seattle Times for more than six years and is the author of Yoga for Hikers and Yoga for Climbers (Mountaineers Books). She has taught strong, essential yoga classes for more than a decade and consults as a success coach.
Irie Love is a BIPOC, born and raised in Hawaii on the island of Oahu. She spent most of her life as a full-time singer, touring, traveling and living all over the world, since 1999. She moved to Portland in November 2017 to work at CycleBar as an instructor and then Seattle in November 2018 pursuing a full-time fitness career! Now a Certified Personal Trainer, RYT 200 Rasa Yoga and Cycle Instructor, she is still making music whenever she feels inspired.
Fitness has always been a big part of her life. Growing up, she competed in Canoe Paddling, Track & Field, Soccer, Basketball, Volleyball and even Powder Puff Football from Elementary school all the way through her College years!
Now combining her love of Music and Fitness to Inspire and Empower others to their highest potential. Irie Love's most current project is a collective and Podcast (WATR, getting to the root of it all; shifting the narrative for positive change) hosted alongside her fitness brother Earl Benjamin set to premiere in early 2021. |
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