When Angie Mason faced the life-altering diagnosis of Crohn's disease, she responded not with defeat, but with a fiery determination to reclaim her health and vitality through movement.
On our latest podcast, Angie, a functional movement coach, unfolds her narrative of triumph and transformation.
Her approach isn't just about lifting weights; it's about lifting spirits and rewriting the stories we tell ourselves about our bodies and abilities.
Join us as Angie demonstrates how she uses dynamic tools like the steel mace to empower women, grounding their fitness journeys in strength, balance, and holistic well-being.
Our conversation with Angie dives into the benefits of integrating mindful movement and nutrition into our everyday hustle.
We tackle the all-too-common obstacles women encounter when trying to prioritize their fitness, from the stress and time crunches of daily life to the guilt that often accompanies self-care.
Angie's wisdom extends beyond the gym, inspiring us to redefine success in terms of how we feel, not just the numbers on a scale.
Angie imparts an empowering nugget of wisdom: the significance of being "aligned and on time" in our personal journeys. Her words are a clarion call to all our future guests and listeners, reminding us to trust the timing of our lives.
We celebrate the strides of women shattering ceilings in every field, most especially women shattering glass ceilings with a steel mace!
Angie Mason:
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When Angie Mason faced the life-altering diagnosis of Crohn's disease, she responded not with defeat, but with a fiery determination to reclaim her health and vitality through movement.
On our latest podcast, Angie, a functional movement coach, unfolds her narrative of triumph and transformation.
Her approach isn't just about lifting weights; it's about lifting spirits and rewriting the stories we tell ourselves about our bodies and abilities.
Join us as Angie demonstrates how she uses dynamic tools like the steel mace to empower women, grounding their fitness journeys in strength, balance, and holistic well-being.
Our conversation with Angie dives into the benefits of integrating mindful movement and nutrition into our everyday hustle.
We tackle the all-too-common obstacles women encounter when trying to prioritize their fitness, from the stress and time crunches of daily life to the guilt that often accompanies self-care.
Angie's wisdom extends beyond the gym, inspiring us to redefine success in terms of how we feel, not just the numbers on a scale.
Angie imparts an empowering nugget of wisdom: the significance of being "aligned and on time" in our personal journeys. Her words are a clarion call to all our future guests and listeners, reminding us to trust the timing of our lives.
We celebrate the strides of women shattering ceilings in every field, most especially women shattering glass ceilings with a steel mace!
Angie Mason:
website: https://vinyasavikingfitness.offeringtree.com/offerings
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/AngieMasonMoves/
Connect with Valerie:
Website:
https://admin.stan.store/stores/?tab=details
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/hey_valerie_lynn/
LinkedIn - Valerie Lynn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/valerie-lynn-5aa73b1b/
Hello, gorgeous, and welcome to the Women on Top podcast. I'm your host, valerie Lynn, and with over 15 years of business experience, I became truly passionate about finding ways to support and hear from way more women, and what we know to be true is that women thrive when they are in their favorite position on top. On top in business, in relationships, in personal growth and on top in being real and authentic to who the hell they are. So I invite you to sit back and enjoy the Women on Top podcast. Welcome, welcome, welcome. I'm so excited to do this recording today for the women on top.
Speaker 1:So, for everybody listening, angie Mason is here with me through the virtual airwaves and I will let you introduce a little bit about yourself. But just for those listening, angie is such a badass. When I think about women who have really, like, commanded their life, taken things into their own hands and done things a little bit differently to like kind of reshape some narratives along the way, I really think about you because I feel like you, you've taken a lot of responsibility for your own life, for your own health, and it's not always been an easy journey. So, um, if you wouldn't mind just giving like a quick synopsis of some of what you do. I know you're a movement coach. You're like the ultimate hype woman cheerleader for all the women out there. But, like, elaborate a little bit for us please.
Speaker 2:It's true, absolutely Well, thank you. That is quite the introduction, but so I currently will reverse engineer a little bit. So I just recently opened up a studio here in Cache, oklahoma, tiny little town. We love it, and I am bringing functional movement training. So we're using steel mace kettlebells clubs, we're doing some heavy bag kickboxing and yoga, so all of these things yeah, that is quite the combo.
Speaker 2:Um, okay, keep going, I'm gonna get into the question but the road to get here was very like goes way back to my junior high years of doing taekwondo. So coming from a martial arts background, competing at a pretty high level teaching, and then right after high school I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. So that was a major catalyst to one figuring out how to have gone from being this high level athlete to someone who was sidelined. And now how do I take care of this body that is responding differently to things and getting sick when I didn't used to? And now what do I do? So I was definitely on the back burner as far as being very active and in the health and fitness world. I was just kind of survival mode and had a pretty just stressful twenties, had a pretty just stressful 20s figuring that out and just some personal things.
Speaker 2:And then stumbled into a kickboxing studio that my old coach from Junior Olympics way back in the day was running and I showed up for a class and basically never left and that was where we started combining modalities of kickboxing and strength working together but utilizing different tools like kettlebells and clubs and that kind of thing. So that combination came together. I basically took the keys, ran with it. A couple years ago I moved down here from Washington state, got the studio going and with that along the way got my yoga teacher training done and did a hundred hour steel mace vinyasa certifications. I'm a big believer in bringing strength and yoga practices together.
Speaker 1:So, okay, I have a lot of questions, but let's first like back up for the person who doesn't understand what some of the things you just said are um, such as I have. No, I had literally. When you said steel mace, I was like mace sounds to me like literally a can of mace that you like spray it. So I had no idea what a steel mace even was. So let's just like really quickly start there and then I'll get into some of the other questions. But what is a steel mace? Like a club sounds like I'm going to go have a fight with somebody. You know what are some of these things that you're talking about that you now coach with?
Speaker 2:Right. So steel mace it looks like just a round ball at the end of a stick and this is one of the oldest weapons there is. It goes back very, very far. It used to be called a gata and it really was just a rock on the end of a stick that and we've seen variations of the mace used throughout different cultures as well as part of their weaponry. So it's one of those things like you get a one object and a lever and you've got quite a bit to work with.
Speaker 2:Now, in modern day, what we are doing is using it as a strength building tool. So, as you bring in rotational movement and swings with this weight, where the weight is all focused on one end, that's a much different strength level than if you're taking an evenly weighted dumbbell as an example and just doing a straight up bicep curl, isolating a single muscle group, so it works the whole body in a different way. You have to be very focused, you have to know where your tool is going and you have to be connected breath and body, not just like, oh, I'm holding it here, so off it goes. When you have a heavy weight that's swinging over your head, you have to pull down. You want to match that breath exertion as well as the work of that movement. So when we do like, bring steel mace into yoga movement patterns, that's where we go with lighter weights. So you're adding a little resistance to a yoga move without risking the joint. We're actually building up that joint strength while you hold a pose.
Speaker 1:Oh, interesting yeah.
Speaker 2:So it works a little differently.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I had no idea where the steel macy bin came from. That was really cool to think about, how it was used in history and like really intriguing now Cause I kind of want to go look it all up, but that's a podcast for a different day. Um, so we can do a whole deep dive. What is the? What is the attraction? You know you're talking about, like you know, strengthening the joint and some of the movement with a kind of a weapon, I guess.
Speaker 1:I don't know a weapon like that, Not really, but like a piece of equipment like that. What is the advantage? What is the attraction for you as a woman and I ask that because I feel like this is a very different style of workout and it feels very and this is why I'm having on shows because it's a very like bad-ass kind of edgy, different than we're used to seeing and especially like the fitness world. So what is the attraction to you and why do you love teaching other, especially like other women, how to use equipment like that?
Speaker 2:Right, so so much of this is based on throwing and striking patterns? Right, because, again, at its core it was weaponry. And as we tap into that, that's a very empowering practice to have. I'm not just asking you to take a mace from down by your hip up to the other side of your body. That's an uppercut. You know that's an actual strike. And when you combine these movements with what their purpose is, suddenly you're way more tapped in. It's not just okay, well, I'm going to move this weight from here to there.
Speaker 2:It's like oh no, I need to actually like strike what I'm doing or block very purposefully, so it becomes this whole other expression of movement and it's really useful for tapping into, like flow state style training, where you know you're just singularly focused. It's this task at hand, breath and body are working together and it just it opens up this whole other world of training. And I think as you build those throwing and striking patterns, it's not always part of what we're brought up to do in more traditional fitness practices, right, it's. It's not like a dance based fitness necessarily you know which can be so fun, right.
Speaker 2:But when it's like, oh no, we're actually throwing strikes and putting purposeful blocks out there it becomes. You have this level of serious, but also just like just very primal. So it taps into this whole other thing and as you have that singular focus, you also better your stress responses because of apply a certain amount of stress in an appropriate way and under conditions that are controlled, and you learn how to breathe into those things. It's like, okay, my heart rate gets up here, I'm doing this, I am purposefully working out at this level, at this intensity. The more you practice that type of thing, instead of just I'm going to do burpees until I can't breathe anymore, it's like why the of movement?
Speaker 1:I'm feeling as I hear you talk about this and I feel like other people resonate, but I'm like I need this in my life, Like in the sense of the control and the focus that you have to have because, like you said, it's a very different.
Speaker 1:it sounds like you have to have everything kind of in alignment. So let's like back up a step or two here. What has cause you started with martial arts when you were young? Um, what has this all done for you? You know, I feel like you've just built over the years. You now own your own studio. You're now doing the thing that you had always aspired to and dreamed of, but, like backing up to when you were young, what has this all done for you in your own life? Personally, Movement, what does it mean to you?
Speaker 2:Well. So that's the thing I feel like, no matter what any crazy chaotic thing could happen in the world, and a movement practice of some kind was always there for me, no matter what. Movement practice of some kind was always there for me, no matter what. So as a kid, you know those teenage years. They're a little angsty and you kind of don't know who you are or what you're doing and you're just doing your best and you have emotions that are all over the place and you don't know why, but you're just ah. So to have martial arts to go back to, that was something that for me, was an incredible outlet. That's good emotional regulation, that's good expression through body of success. You know I can measure that. I started at this point and now I can do this move that I couldn't the first time I came in here.
Speaker 2:You know you can see these progressions and I think that's an important thing, for you know younger folks coming up is to have these goals that are outside of academia but will help support the brain, body function as well. You know it's like you can step into these things, have this physical practice once, good stress relief, but to get that, you know the good mood hits as well. So that's a big deal. You get that entire bodies are happy. It's like you want to get to the end of your day and have sort of used everything at an appropriate level.
Speaker 2:Again, don't like exhaust yourself for no reason, but if you're having a tough time with sleep regulation as well, that's a really good thing. It's like, well, what's your movement practice look like? And if there isn't one and many people miss the mark on that, you're not going to sleep. Well, your body's going to have all that energy to race with whatever scenario at work. But if you can get some of that out, physically, express it, you will do much better with that type of thing, and good sleep will help with so many other things. So it's like the one is intrinsically linked to the other.
Speaker 1:You know what are some of the top. Like if you could say here's the top three things that women tend to struggle with when they come to me and they're like hey, I need to get back into some sort of movement because my sleep is crap and I just feel some kind of way what are the top three areas that you're like, okay, let's start here, here and here. What would you say?
Speaker 2:Stress time and prioritizing.
Speaker 1:Ooh, didn't expect the third one, right? I feel like a little like in my gut when you said that Right.
Speaker 2:It's so many women, we handle all of the things and there's a million things up in the air and we got it, I got it, I got you. No, it's fine, right, it's what we do. Put yourself on the priority list can be a scary thing because it feels selfish, it feels like I'm ignoring people at home, it feels like I'm not taking care of my job, and that's very important to me. But if you do not take care of your body yourself, that mind muscle connection, body yourself, that mind muscle connection, everything else will falter. So at some point it's either going to be you take an hour here and there, or even 30 minutes. It doesn't always have to be an hour.
Speaker 2:I think that's another thing why I say you know kindness on there as well. You do these things and it only helps you better support the other stuff. So it is not selfish to prioritize a movement practice. It is not selfish to have a little five minute meditation with your cup of coffee first thing in the morning. Those things are not selfish, and I think that is something that a lot of people struggle with is just putting themselves at the top of the priority list.
Speaker 2:It's like yes, of course I know your children are one of the most important things to you, but I also know that you want to be able to run around and do stuff with them and not be out of breath doing it. So it's okay to take that time and really it just shows them a positive relationship with exercise, where it's not just oh, I'm trying to do this because I need to get smaller. It's like no mom's working out because she wants to be strong and climb trees with you or whatever the idea is. But that's the kind of thing to model those behaviors in such a way that they have a different purpose to them. And again, it isn't selfish, it's just I lift this thing up so I can lift you up too. Well, that's so cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that prioritizing piece is big. What you know, I feel like there's so many health trends out there right now. There's all these different diets there's a keto diet, there's fasting, there's you know, I don't know what else tracking your macros and whatever what you know. Do you recommend any particular one of those? Where are we getting it wrong? Honestly, like in your opinion, because it can be. I feel like it can be hard and daunting as you start to look through all of the things that exist on the interwebs and the social media. So where are we fucking up?
Speaker 2:I'm not a dietitian. The thoughts I have on that are I don't recommend any one specific diet to anybody. What I do think works well is if you eat for your heart and you eat for your gut, and oftentimes that will lead you to real food very consistently lots of fruit, veg If you're a protein person, lean meats for the most part, not a lot of highly processed things and most diets. What you will find if you chase a diet and I don't recommend a lot of. I don't specifically coach weight loss on purpose. I made a very cognizant decision. Weight loss is not a major thing that I do. Most people lose some weight when they're training with me, but I want people to focus on performance levels how long the plan versus day one? So when it comes to the nutritional piece, what I have seen within every bad diet that's come through, where people are like I, lost 20 pounds, right away, it's like each one of those asks you to cut out processed food.
Speaker 2:The package stuff goes away. You're not drinking soda and you are upping your hydration, and so the things that are so similar across the board are the things that, to me, make sense.
Speaker 1:I've never heard it being referred to as eat for your heart and eat for your gut. I feel like that needs to somewhere go on a t-shirt. That you said because I can remember that you know, and I think that that's the other piece of why I'm asking you is because some of these you know, these trendy things, it's hard to remember. Am I doing this and how many things am I tracking and what am I doing? Um?
Speaker 2:so it makes it very, very all or nothing, right, and it's like, oh, I missed a day, so I broke the system and now I'm done. Well, you know you're going to have a birthday.
Speaker 1:You're going to have a holiday.
Speaker 2:There's going to be a night out with your friends at some point, but if most of your time is spent eating really well, getting good hydration, you're going to be fine.
Speaker 1:Is this something that you think that being diagnosed with Crohn's taught you? You know? Is this something you feel like you learned from the chronic illness?
Speaker 2:I think it helped a lot, because my relationship with food became what's going to feel good, what won't mess me up, won't put me in the hospital, and that was a big deal, and that's where I heard the phrase. So the one thing I said in there did come from I forget the doctor's name, so my apologies, I can't directly quote. But eat real food not too much. Mostly plants does come from someone else. Eat for your heart and eat for your gut is something I just tell a lot of people.
Speaker 1:Which I think is brilliant. So coin that shit.
Speaker 2:But it may be out there somewhere. I haven't heard it from anyone else. But the other phrase I just want to be clear that did come from someone else big in the vegan world. But that relationship with food for me came to be what is going to help me function, and so it's like I've tried so many of these diets and things to see what had the best benefit, so I do have quite a bit of familiarity there. The thing that I did for about six years when I was starting to have flare ups very consistently, was I did go fully vegan and like whole food vegan for about six years and that worked really well for me.
Speaker 2:After I did have surgery a couple years ago to remove a few inches of intestine because it was just so damaged, and since then I found that my body needed different things after that. So I still don't have dairy. That works for me. For some folks that's not an option. That's fine. But I've recently started adding in some seafood and that has been really good for me.
Speaker 2:But again, it's like you have to be a little open to listening to your body. You have to be open to listening to that and I think a lot of folks it's like your needs may change over time a little bit too, so don't be so stringent to anyone. So the keto thing in particular I get a little concerned about people trying to do very long term if they don't have specific medical conditions that support it. So with any of these, I would say check with your doctor, get some blood work done, make sure you're doing okay initially and continue to check it. And that's why, again, I say I'm not a nutritionist, I'm not a dietician, but these are just some things I have seen that have been helpful for people.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, well, I think it's good to hear from you. You know what has worked for you, and especially given. You know I don't want to keep coming back to like Crohn's, but I think it's important to address that, because a lot of people are dealing with something, whether it's that severe or not. You know it's probably varies on the spectrum, but you know, that's kind of the reason I was asking about. That is just some of that journey. And for somebody out there who maybe is like gosh, I don't feel like I'm a badass enough to get to the level that Angie is at. Um, I guess you know what would you say to that woman who's like I feel like I want to get healthier, but I am not ready to be thrown around. I don't know a steel mace or whatever other piece of equipment you like to use. You know I just need to start somewhere. What would you say to that woman?
Speaker 2:you can do whatever you want. You can absolutely do it if you want to. And I I think that that's a fear response like I'm not as badass as you, so I I can't. It's like I have had days I have been on the couch and needed help walking just because of severe pain in my side. So, like I, you can do whatever you want. And I think that that's a little bit of my hardheadedness that got me to where I am, where it's like, even at the worst, sickest times, I'm like I should be able to do a little more.
Speaker 2:And so, as people are starting out, I think part of the pause and the wall that they come up against is just it hasn't been an option before. So if you see something that they come up against is just it hasn't been an option before. So if you see something and you're like I would like to try that, please go try that. Coaches and trainers are there specifically for that and I'll help you reach out to me. But that's the kind of thing where it's like, once you get over the idea of like oh, that's for someone else, it's like it could be for you. Once we get past the idea, so much of what I have seen is a lot of women have been told that to lift or do some of these things is like, oh, you don't need to do that, go run or only do yoga or whatever. It's very cardio heavy, which is a very old idea. That tide is shifting for sure. Sure, a lot more women are in the gym and doing very cool things.
Speaker 1:I feel like there's a fallacy here that I mean, even I've been told and sometimes I felt it for myself which is you don't want to lift too big, too much, you don't even really want to lift weights at all because you don't want to get bulky. And so that continues to be something that I've heard and not just from, but from from men, of course, which is annoying as well. But I'm curious, like what, what are your thoughts about that? Because that's often a fear that women deal with is oh my gosh, I don't want to get muscly, I just want to like slim down and look better and also just feel better. So what would you say to that?
Speaker 2:Thankfully, I've been very blessed with some men in my life that are like no lift things. So I've had some good coaches that are into my boyfriend now it's very like, yeah, pick up heavy things, he's all about it, and so I'm very appreciative to not be around that mindset. You cannot accidentally you're not going to accidentally get a bodybuilder arm. Do you have any idea how hard bodybuilders work to get that muscular?
Speaker 1:It's insane.
Speaker 2:It's so much time. The concern of, oh, if I start lifting weights, I'll get bulky, it is like no, you won't, your skeleton will be better supported, you'll love that, and that's the type of thing that muscle builds, but it does not just expand overnight, right.
Speaker 1:So much to our dismay, my six pack hasn't arrived yet.
Speaker 2:You didn't get the two day shipping. It's not showing up.
Speaker 2:Didn't. Yeah, it's like the heavier you lift, most of what's going to happen and especially if you do it in a progressive manner is you may notice that as you build some muscle, you do lose a little body fat. So you may see a little more through the arms and the legs, which is fantastic. But again, unless you're done specific body building cycles and training, you are not going to get bulky. And if you're still lifting the same 10 pound weight that you started lifting with a year ago, it is time to up your weights. You need to build that strength but at the same time it's like it's not going to sneak up on you. You won't accidentally have massive traps or shoulders that look like you know it doesn't. It takes so much to build that muscle and most women are not naturally going to do that.
Speaker 1:You know, when we are looking at longevity, I feel like there's a big shift in how we're kind of seeing some of those trends and some of the things that the research that's coming out of health is. You know, how does this all play into longevity and why should we be thinking about it now, especially when it comes to mobility?
Speaker 2:So when you think about what you need to do as your body ages and aging is not bad, it's like we are privileged to get to do that. You need to be able to walk, maybe go upstairs If you have pets or a garden to take care of, that kind of thing. When you add a little bit of resistance, that helps you maintain that muscle, because muscle, if you do not use it, you will lose it Absolutely. And so the idea that it's like, oh well, if I just do cardio, it's like, well, think about what cardio is designed for. It is for your cardiovascular system. This is strength in your heart, right? So as we do those things, like, yeah, that's great, blood is flowing really well, which is fantastic.
Speaker 2:But let's say you have someone who's a little elderly and they fall and they've got no muscle to support themselves. They're stuck on the ground. And that same person has been lifting things and in rotational patterns, moving not just in a one dimension of a bicep curl or that kind of thing. If you're moving sideways, up, down and around, to get up after a fall is going to be like oh well, that hurt a little bit, I'm fine, you know, they can support their own weight. So I think to strength train at a level where you can support your own body weight in different scenarios. You fall on a trail and let's say you twist an ankle, can your other leg help you get back to the trailhead if you needed to and I hope this never happens to anybody, but army crawl your way to a safe spot, and that's the type of thing to consider is like how well can you take care of yourself if something does go a little sideways?
Speaker 1:yourself if something does go a little sideways and actually like this is a interesting relate that I just had, but I feel like for a lot of the independent girls out there, you're probably going to get really motivated by this episode, because this all comes back to how do you take care of yourself? Like and making sure that you can rely on not just your mind but your body, and like this vehicle that is getting you around and giving you the energy to do the things that you want to do. Like it's motivating me right now. I was like okay, I need to elevate my game in a different way because I really want to live to be 120.
Speaker 2:So right, and that's the thing, and that's when you look at the blue zones, right, the people that are living to a hundred, plus so many of them, they're moving, they're walking, they're carrying things and it's just more naturally built into their day-to-day lives. They are not sedentary.
Speaker 1:For you know somebody who's like, who's listening to this again and is like, okay, but I do have to be behind a computer. They're like me, right. Okay, I'm behind a computer nine to five and I have a family and I've got to cook and I've got to do all the things. What's a small way they can start to incorporate movement. That might just be something like very simple, that, okay, you just need to like block off your calendar, I don't know, for 10 minutes, like what is something that you have found like works for people, even if they can't commit to an hour long class of, you know, steel?
Speaker 2:mace or something like that. No, this is one of my favorite things. I love getting people started, because it often is like you see all the barriers. You don't always see all the green lights right.
Speaker 2:So, if you are stuck in a desk all day and I've been there, I have done office work Take your breaks, take your breaks and, as you can, take a walk. You are trading your time for money. You are not trading your wellness to a company. So if they are supposed to give you a break, you schedule it in and you take it. That is not. It's not negotiable. There are times you may have to shift it a little bit. If you have meetings, that kind of thing, I certainly understand that.
Speaker 2:But to do a lap around the building every now and then, I don't think is unreasonable, right? So that's a little thing. To start, if it's the family structure you're concerned about, turn it into a family thing. A group are going to go for a short walk or we are going to do this thing in the yard, if there's a yard available. You know, I know everyone's housing situation is different, but that's where you need to identify what are the things that are available to you. How can you include the rest of the family in it? And it may be hey, really quick, we're going to take whatever kiddos and everybody does 10 squats. Okay, now we're going to try 10 pushups.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Good job and now run down and back. You know like little things like that. It doesn't have to be complicated, right? So build your at home stuff. If it is just like, look, I've got 15 minutes to do a little something, start with a walk, especially if you're just getting started. Start getting walking Cause you do want again. That cardiovascular system has got to support the rest of the effort. So build that up a little bit, cause there's a lot.
Speaker 1:I feel like there's a lot of different pieces when we start breaking down, like I'm sure we could talk in such depth about health and how it relates to mindset and how it relates to relationships and business and all of that Because the more that I'm looking at you know especially especially the go-getter women out there who are ambitious and just have goals in general, generally speaking, there's some sort of wellbeing practice that they use. What do you think is your personal mission with all of this work that you're doing?
Speaker 2:I think it's to open the door. Yeah, my, my role is to open the door for people. I think one of the things I have seen very frequently is folks come to me thinking, oh, I need to work out. End, end of statement. Just, I need to work out, like, okay, what are we doing, what are we training for? And where the style of training that I do is very longevity driven. You know we're doing joint mobility, we're doing heavy bag kickboxing. You know you're getting that heart rate up, you're doing the strength training, but it's all again based around these functional movement patterns. It's not just single session. We're doing arms today. It's like, okay, that's a bodybuilder style of working out which, if that's your goal, that's fine, but I might not be the coach for you then Right. So most people are looking to elevate. They want themselves on a next level.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Let's build that. So my job is to open the door for how to do it, and that's where we do a whole lot of core work in here. And when I say core I mean everything that supports the spine, that whole lumbar pelvic hip complex. I don't just mean your abs lumbar pelvic hip complex, I don't just mean your abs. But but again, it's like to have a strong supported spine that just allows you to do all these other things too, right? So my job is to make your life easier by making a little bit of time in the studio Kind of tough.
Speaker 1:I like what you said about opening the door. It really does speak to all the work that you're doing and have done, and also just like what a testament you are to the fact that this like being of service to your body and, you know, of service to your mind. When you're doing this, you're really like contributing to your whole self. And look at the journey that you've been on, right Like. I mean, for those of you that don't know Angie's backstory, I have been fortunate enough to kind of be alongside and like get a little look behind the curtain. But she has moved across the country. She's overcome some other personal obstacles, health situations and like this I think has helped you. This has been like the thing that has really helped you go from like zero to a hundred in a way, and now you have your own she's our own studio and that only took you. I mean, you like just moved a year, just over a year ago, year and a half ago, two years, I don't know. It feels like it's two years. In just a few weeks it will be two years. Wow, that's amazing, but it's been so fast.
Speaker 1:I feel like that you got down there, got situated and then you have always had this vision of I'm going to own this studio and now I feel like we can connect the dots and just say, holy crap, this has served you in such a big way and I just love that. Like, I love being able to see that it really is so inspiring. That's huge, thank you, yeah, yeah, and you know what, like I feel like this episode really just having this conversation, I'm so excited to work on my health differently and the way that you talk about it, it's just so, it's so different, it's so grounded it. I love how much knowledge you have and how you can help us like understand how it's supportive of the whole body and not just in. Like you said, I, you know, don't work with just abs, I work with your whole entire core.
Speaker 1:I didn't even know that was a thing. Now it makes so much sense Like you're supporting the spinal structure. So I know other people are going to be feeling excited and want to, you know, reach out to you or just kind of find you. So where can people find you? What are you currently working on? Tell us all of the things.
Speaker 2:So you can find me on Instagram. I'm at Angie Mason moves. My website is vinyasa viking fitnesscom, and if you don't know how to spell vinyasa, I'm sure we'll have that link somewhere we will have it linked.
Speaker 1:Vinyasa Viking, what a cool name Anyway.
Speaker 2:That is, my studio is Vinyasa Viking Fitness, and I do have ways to work with me. If you are not in the area, that's totally fine. I am currently working on building out a 30 day very intro level program to yoga and steel mace practices.
Speaker 1:So if you're brand new to yoga.
Speaker 2:Brand new to steel mace. This is for you.
Speaker 1:We're like wrapping up here and, as a last question, not knowing who the next guest is going to be, and this is just kind of a fun thing that I want to start asking everybody but what just piece of advice do you have for her, whoever that might be? Like what one last, like whether it's just a quote that has been hitting you lately, or just something you feel called to share. What is that thing?
Speaker 2:Okay, so something I've shared recently actually is and it sounds so silly, but it's the idea of being aligned and on time, and I heard that from the speaker a little while ago. It's just kind of stuck with me and like whatever is happening, currently aligned and on time, you're exactly where you need to be.
Speaker 1:I feel like that's going to just be perfect. You know, these things are always so interesting because you know you'll leave that for somebody and then I'll share that with whoever the next person is, and somehow, some way, it's like going to be exactly aligned and on time right, like I literally am going to go back to that, I feel like, for whoever is going to be on here, they're going to listen to that and probably need to hear that in some way, shape or form. So I love that. I think that that's perfect. Well, thank you for just being a woman on top. Honestly, I love that. You know, our mission is to kind of shatter glass ceilings with, you know, stilettos or maybe a steel mace, and so you're you're helping do that Really.
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