Zen Barre® Spark
Ready to take a standard barre practice and kick it up a notch?
Mission Statement: The mission of Zen Barre® is to provide men and women the opportunity to pursue a career in physical fitness based on a mind-body connecting practice. This pursuit enables a sense of empowerment as well as financial freedom. Zen Barre® is a trademarked barre-pilates-yoga fusion fitness format that offers expansions to amplify or modify the workouts. Zen Barre® Spark may only be learned by and offered from a certified Zen Barre Instructor.
Course Description: Zen Barre® Spark is the perfect workout to burn a ton of calories, increase cardiovascular work, lengthen, strengthen and tone muscles, all in a short amount of time. The class format keeps the heart rate up, allowing for maximum results in a more compacted time period, about 30 minutes or less from warm-up to cool down, while still maintaining an emphasis on the mind-body connection.
INCLUDES:
A downloadable manual, study documents/guides, instructional videos, sample class and a Certificate of Completion.
Your Instructor
Jonelle is the founder of the Zen Barre® certification program and studio. Through the creation and practice of Zen Barre®, she fuels her entrepreneurial spirit and passion for human services. Jonelle believes the fitness journey empowers and inspires by connecting the mind, body, and soul. She utilizes this holistic approach in her practice, teaching and methodology of the Zen Barre®. When not teaching, Jonelle is a Speech-Language Pathologist.
I gave Zen Barre SPARK a try today and I'm glad I did. As soon as Jonelle explained how it worked, I realized I was really going to like the way the class segments were set up. You do everything twice, which is great on so many levels - if it's a move you are not so familiar with you can use the first time through to find your balance and let your body get used to the motion, and the second time through you can start to really challenge yourself and experiment with the more difficult modifications (or not, LOL). If it's a move you already know, you can go for the harder mods right away, knowing that if you tire out your muscles, you can always dial it down a notch on the second set. Also it's mentally much easier to know you only have to do each sequence twice - and then you are going to switch to a whole other set of exercises that target different muscle groups. So you are going to work hard the entire time, but you are never going to dwell on any particular muscle movement for long enough to overwork it. I was also impressed at how a 30-minute class can incorporate both the Yin and the Yang - some segments we moved quickly and I was sweating and my heart rate was up - punctuated by the classic yoga balancing poses such as Tree, where mental focus and steady breath is key. -Laura M