Every September, my classes fill up. People come back from summer looking for something to anchor to as the weather turns and the school year starts and the year stops feeling endless. There’s a reason for this. September is the secret New Year for a lot of us — even if we left school decades ago, the body remembers the rhythm.

The technology is sophisticated. The service is exceptional. The natural world immersion is genuinely exciting. So why does the feeling fade so soon after guests return to their lives?

On March 17th, the American College of Sports Medicine published its first major update to resistance training guidelines since 2009. Seventeen years. That’s a long time in exercise science — roughly the same span that separated the first smartphone from the one in your pocket right now.

Here’s my little summary.

New Year's resolutions: about 80% of Americans make them, but only about 8% actually achieve them. That's not because we lack willpower or commitment—it's because we're setting ourselves up for failure from the start.

After 40 years of teaching movement and working as a behavioral change specialist, I've seen this pattern play out hundreds of times.

Here's something I notice almost every week in class: a student tries a movement, I offer a gentle tip to help them refine it, and they immediately apologize. "Sorry!" As if learning something new were a failure.

It breaks my heart a little, every time.

When people think of Pilates, they often picture slow, controlled movements. But here's something that might surprise you: in its original form, Pilates was fast, dynamic, and built for dancers, boxers and other athletes.

The path to habit change is not a beautifully lit straight shot, but it’s likely you are holding yourself back with this one self-sabotaging belief…

What if I told you that focusing on just four types of habits could transform your entire life? Not dozens of new routines, not a complete lifestyle overhaul—just four foundation habits that act as catalysts for everything else.

These are called Keystone Habits…