At the Core

As the creator of Prose and Poses, Leslie blends the power of yoga, writing, and the free dance expression of Qoya to help others heal, grow, and thrive.   The combination of external movement and internal wisdom help people unshackle their creativity, feel their bodies as allies, and cultivate more self-intimacy. Leslie’s journey started at age 17 after a traumatic injury caused her to lose her eye. She now lives with a piece of art in her body, and she’s transformed the original wound into a source of depth and beauty she shares in her teaching.   With her MFA from Purdue University, she’s a poet and writing coach, and her words are published in over 20 wellness and poetry journals. In her career as an English professor at California Polytechnic University, she helps her students tap into the wisdom of words.   00:00 Moved by Words and Music 00:28 Introducing Leslie St. John 01:54 Music and Emotions 05:40 Important to Face Our Shadows 07:02 Shake It Off 08:12 Overcoming Trauma 12:37 Cultivating a Relationship With Intuition 15:50 Benefits of Journaling 16:53 How to Start Journaling 18:50 Combining Words and Movement 20:58 Neuro Lightning Round 22:35 Leslie Final Remarks 23:36 Closing Remarks More about Misha:  Instagram: www.instagram.com/centralcorepb/ Website: www.centralcore.fitness Blog: mpspost.wordpress.com Streaming Workouts: core.streamfit.io CORE Instagram: www.instagram.com/mycorecrew/  Learn more about Leslie St. John:  FB: https://www.facebook.com/leslieyogaandwriting Instagram: @proseandposes Website: www.proseandposes.com

For aerial artist Enya White, the trapeze is her brush and canvas. Traveling with Cirque Du Soleil’s Luzia show for since 2015, Enya has learned not just highly refined trapeze skills. Her experience can teach us all about staying healthy on the road, being safe and creative while challenging our comfort zones, and returning fully to practice (mentally and physically) after an injury.   More about Misha: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centralcorepb/ Website: https://www.centralcore.fitness Blog: https://mpspost.wordpress.com Streaming Workouts: https://core.streamfit.io CORE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mycorecrew/  Learn more about Enya White: FB: https://www.facebook.com/Blacktrapeze YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Blacktrapeze Instagram: @blacktrapeze Website: www.blacktrapeze.com

Google search engine auto-complete for Jocelin is “Jocelin Snow Height.” Watching Jocelin, at 5’1”, command a 550+ pound adventure bike doesn’t seem possible. She can’t put her foot down, it weighs 5x more than she does, and yet she’s graceful, stable, capable.  In this episode, we'll explore how the mind is capable of altering confidence, balance, attitude and resilience, making this adventure rider one of the best in the world!  More about Misha:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centralcorepb/ Website: https://www.centralcore.fitness Blog: https://mpspost.wordpress.com Streaming Workouts: https://core.streamfit.io CORE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mycorecrew/  Learn more about Jocelin Snow:  Personal FB: https://www.facebook.com/snowjocelin Biz FB: https://www.facebook.com/jocelinsnow/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/JocelinSnow Instagram: @jocelinsnow Website: https://www.jocelin.com

As Head Mental Performance Coach and founder of Beast Athletics, Tuck Taylor built on his experience as a collegiate and semi-pro basketball athlete and channeled his passion for sports performance to create Beast Athletics. As his clients increased their physical abilities, he was puzzled why some of his hardest working athletes weren’t performing any better at their sport. With a growing understanding of neuroscience, he realized the vital role that the brain plays in sports performance. His more recent business endeavor, Neuro Beast, provides mental performance training to educate, engineer, and empower athletes to reach new levels of performance. In this episode, we'll learn more about Tuck's “wired to win” strategy that's proven successful for collegiate and pro athletes across a wide range of sports, from figure skating to race car driving to football players. More about Misha:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centralcorepb/ Website: https://www.centralcore.fitness   Blog: https://mpspost.wordpress.com Streaming Workouts: https://core.streamfit.io CORE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mycorecrew/  More about Tuck Taylor: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neuro.beast/ Book: B.E.A.S.T. Thinking

Get ready for a wild ride as we meet Dario Costa, internationally known professional Red Bull Air Race competitor, stunt pilot, aerobatic performer, flight instructor and paradropping pilot. Fun fact: he was awarded the Guinness World Record for the first and longest flight through a tunnel at 245 mph! We'll dive into his career challenges of high G-forces, incredible reaction times, preparing mentally, and life saving breathe work during aeronautic moves that would make the rest of us grab the air-sick bag. More about Misha: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centralcorepb/ Website: https://www.centralcore.fitness Blog: https://mpspost.wordpress.com Streaming Workouts: https://core.streamfit.io CORE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mycorecrew/  Learn more about Dario Costa: Instagram @costadario Website https://dariocosta.com/

You've heard about searching for the needle in the haystack. What about finding the sculpture in the eye of that needle? Dr. Willard Wigan, working between heartbeats and while holding his breath (so he doesn't inhale his artwork), creates works of art that he places in the eye of a needle or on the head of a pin.  In this episode, we'll explore how Dr. Wigan uses his used his exquisite control of his autonomic system and fine motor skills to create not only intricate, world-record-holding micro sculptures, but also show that dyslexia and Asperger syndrome do not define a person's abilities.   More about Misha:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centralcorepb/ Website: https://www.centralcore.fitness Blog: https://mpspost.wordpress.com Streaming Workouts: https://core.streamfit.io CORE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mycorecrew/  Learn more about Dr. Willard Wigan MBE:  Instagram @dr_willardwigan_mbe Website https://www.willardwiganmbe.com/

At age 20, Svetlana Basukinskaya was diagnosed with a brainstem cavernoma. These benign vascular lesions often cause no symptoms, but Sveta's was devastating. It bled into her cerebellum, affecting her entire autonomic system, vision, movement, balance, coordination, muscle tone, and much more. After surviving a six-hour brain surgery, Sveta's real work began. In this episode, we'll learn how Sveta's focus on brain-based drills and neuroscience not only helped her recover, but thrive, as she now helps young athletes with neuro training.   More about Misha:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centralcorepb/ Website: https://www.centralcore.fitness Blog: https://mpspost.wordpress.com Streaming Workouts: https://core.streamfit.io CORE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mycorecrew/  Learn more about Svetlana Basukinskaya:  Instagram @rookie_biatch  Instagram @neurotrainingfutbol_russia

You might know Tara Lyn Emerson as a popular fitness professional with a huge Instagram following and as a trainer for TRX Training Club, Popsugar Fitness, and more. What you might not know is that her lifetime focus on fitness and wellness stems both from her athletic childhood and her early diagnosis of a progressive neuromuscular disease. Far from allowing the disease to dictate her future and what she couldn't do, she chose to use the diagnosis of CMT to create a life focused on what she could do -- building on it every day and helping others discover how strong they can be. In this episode of At the Core, we dig into tapping the power of motivation, the vital role of nutrition, how mindset affects everything, and more. More about Misha:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centralcorepb/ Website: https://www.centralcore.fitness Blog: https://mpspost.wordpress.com Streaming Workouts: https://core.streamfit.io CORE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mycorecrew/  More about Tara Lyn Emerson:  Instagram: https://instagram.com/taralynemerson Pinterest: https://pin.it/18Pr87E YouTube: https://youtube.com/user/tarabeare

As a pro soccer player, Brett Johnson played in three states and four countries. After graduating with a neuroscience degree, he began combining both passions with the goal to help people around the world maximize their potential. The result: the SwitchedOn app he created is helping improve sports performance, enhance injury prevention/rehabilitation routines, and improve overall quality of life. In this episode of At the Core, we'll explore with Brett how the "Perceive. Decide. React." sequence is for everybody -- not just soccer players and athletes -- and we'll uncover how that SwitchedOn app helps not only with rehab, stroke recovery, and cognitive therapy, but with our real-life situations and experiences. More about Misha:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centralcorepb/ Website: https://www.centralcore.fitness  Blog: https://mpspost.wordpress.com Streaming Workouts: https://core.streamfit.io CORE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mycorecrew/  More about SwitchedOn:  Website https://www.switchedontrainingapp.com/ IG: @switchedontraining  TikTok: @switchedontraining YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3CnTmvZ3oL0tVkefF6l_GQ

Once a professional Rugby player for Argentina and Italy, Franco Pablo Lococo now teaches the power of training your brain to better process visual information. Good vision isn't about having 20/20 eyesight, although that's the standard most of us know. What's more important is processing what we see in the most effective, efficient way. For athletes, who make split-second decisions, this could be the difference between winning and losing. For the general population this could mean fall prevention, improved daily living,  improved reaction timing, and decreased pain. As the creator and developer of Elite Vision Sticks™, Franco trains the principles and techniques to exploit all the benefits that the visual system and executive brain function can bring to sports and daily life. More about Misha: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centralcorepb/ Website: https://www.centralcore.fitness Blog: https://mpspost.wordpress.com Streaming Workouts: https://core.streamfit.io CORE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mycorecrew/  More about Franco:  https://francolococovisualcoach.comInstagram https://www.instagram.com/francolococo_neurovisual_coach https://www.instagram.com/neurotrainingfutbol

When you hear the word "Parkour," what do you envision? Yes, the Hollywood version has actors jumping skyscraper rooftops and swinging down fire escapes while being chased by a helicopter. But the true activity of Parkour isn't just for stunt actors and young, super-fit adrenalin junkies In the next episode of At the Core, you'll meet Dan Edwardes, founder and CEO of Parkour Generations, a multi-award winning and multi-national organization for parkour. We'll learn more about his passion for safety and teaching this art, as well as how its mind/body connection and brain stimulation bring real benefits -- physical and mental -- for participants of any ages and athletic abilities.

On this episode of "At the Core," you'll meet Dr. Jacob Weiss, PhD., founder of HandEyeBody Academy. This social enterprise has the mission to help people learn how to move better, focus better, and function better. How? By teaching hand-eye coordination exercises --like juggling! -- that are creative, fun, and accessible for all abilities. More about Misha:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centralcorepb/ Website: https://www.centralcore.fitness Blog: https://mpspost.wordpress.com Streaming Workouts: https://core.streamfit.io CORE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mycorecrew/  Learn more about Dr. Jacob Weiss:  Website: www.handeyebody.com  Instagram: @handeyebody  Twitter: @handeyebody Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/handeyebody

On this episode of "At the Core," you'll meet Ricky Rhinehart, whose career includes the seemingly divergent talents of concert pianinst and national champion powerlifter. We'll talk about how these world might just intersect and the lessons we can learn from playing an instrument as well as tuning our body as a physical instrument.

On this episode of "At the Core," you'll meet Kim Moscatello as we talk about how she connects mind and body in her Pilates teaching through playful exploration, fall practice, and breaking away from exercise stigmas to better mental health and movement confidence.