Welcome to

Live Fit Yoga & Fitness
 

Here is a bit about me: I, Sarah, started out work in my 20's, in advertising, in London. I worked for some good agencies as a creative, writing TV, Radio and print. Two of my favourite places I worked were Ogilvy and DLKW. After a number of years I decided to come back to Somerset with the idea of travel as I'd not explored this when I was younger. A good friend of mine had moved to Australia and encouraged me to book a ticket with the plan to have no plan and work and travel as I went.

 

I set off for Aus and visited some incredible places and worked on an epic cattle farm in Queensland. There are many stories, but I won't go on, here. I then backpacked Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand with my sister Lottie and popped over to South Africa for a best friend's wedding.

 

Coming back to the UK I decided that I couldn't go back into the advertising world, I had effectively been burnt out by it. In question, what should I do next? I will never forget the person who said to me, 'what were you good at when you were younger?', to which I said, sport. More specifically gymnastics when I was very young. Hockey though school and university and I have always been a runner. But for some reason, with the career choices I had made, sport had got lost along the way. It was time to retrain...

 

I started Personal Training in my 30's and worked at Frome Leisure Centre writing programs for all kinds of gym goers. I really enjoyed constructing a program that worked specifically for them whether it be they wanted more stamina for swimming, Or they were recovering from a frozen shoulder, Or they wanted ab exercises without getting on the floor. These are just to give a few examples.

 

As well as writing a multitude of programs I instructed Kettlercise. It was a fixed program but worked with a lower weight and the moves were complex and dynamic. I would teach approximately 15 people and it was important to have them all on form, this is when I began my experience of big group teaching. I had also qualified in Kettlebells, so it was good to get the experience of working with the same tool, but a completely different concept of how to work the body.

 

The other class I loved to teach was Circuits. This was an incredibly high energy class with a very competitive drive, which appealed to my nature. Here I really got a handle on body weight exercises and HIIT training. As well as being creative with the challenges, I was challenged by how to create a class that kept engagement, focus and a task to win.

 

After a couple of years of Personal Training I was self-studying a lot with ideas on dynamic body weight training. I kept coming across injuries and finding yoga body-weight work really useful. I decided to go and get a qualification as a Yoga instructor with an American company, Zuna, based in Bali.

 

On my return I moved to work with Sue Jackson, founder of  Balance Gym in Timsbury. I continued with Personal Training, Kettlercise and Circuits and started to offer Yoga and Gentle Exercise - for exercisers with specific requirements. During this time I qualified in Exercise Referral so that I could really understand what was appropriate and beneficial for people who needed very gentle work.

 

In a short space of time I had collected a wealth of information through working with all sorts of abilities and qualifying in a number of physical trainings. I founded this business, Live Fit Yoga and Fitness not long after. My direction has moved more into Yoga. But I work with several different methods; fascia rolling, Vinyasa dynamic flow, hatha style holding postures and body weight strength. 

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In 2021 my daughter, Olivia was born. During my pregnancy I trained in pregnancy yoga, initially to be able to continue teaching safely and then I opened a class for mothers to be. Currently I do not have a pregnancy yoga class open.

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Now Olivia is 3 I have been able to open some more classes and take some more Personal Training Sessions. We love doing yoga together, especially flying aeroplanes! (Olivia's choice!) And we are about to start gymnastics. 

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I still have a real passion for running, even though I do have breaks from it here and there. I started at Wessex Cannicross with my English Pointer in 2022. It is a fantastic sport that allows me to exercise at the same time as my dog. WIN WIN! He loves the pack running, adventures along woodland trails, mixing with other dogs, but feeling safe and pulling me along for the ride! Not only do we increase cardio and strength in the season, we have better bond with good habits and I can keep him in good muscular condition and balance. (Less free running slips in the soggy season.)

 

Please get in touch if you would like to come and try a yoga class for free to see if it is right for you. 

 

Thank you, Sarah