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Making the most of the year ahead
How to stay motivated this winter and make important practices accessible.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2026
It’s the time of year where everyone is writing about their best practices for the upcoming year, how to stay motivated and how to reach your goals. While there are many tools out there to help the amount of advice can feel overwhelming. If this is how you’re feeling, please feel free to skip this! But, if you’re wondering how I stay consistent in my habits here are a couple from the best selling book Atomic Habits that I found simple and effective to implement:
Habit stacking: This is a strategy to build new habits by attaching them to existing, reliable ones. Easy ones that I have used over the past year have been things like before I have my tea each morning I will drink a big glass of water or after brushing my teeth I will do # of single leg calf raises. Integrating something new that takes about a minute is hard to convince yourself you don’t have time for it.
Systems over goals: This is one of my favourites as it doesn't put the pressure on us to achieve something in a certain period of time. It reminds us that real change takes an investment in prioritizing the process over the outcome.
Staying disciplined in my systems is more about thinking how my future self would feel if I skipped out of any of what I’ve built. Brad Stulberg has recently shared some of his systems that I feel inspired to recreate for the coming year. I encourage you to do the same. This is also an opportunity to realize that you’ve likely already made some pretty great practices for your mental and physical health that you can be proud of:
THE 100 DAY PROJECTThe #100DayProject is a creativity excavation. It’s about unearthing dormant or unrealized creativity by committing to a daily, unedited practice for 100 days. Creativity, like any other practice, is a skill. The more we practice, the more skilled we become. Practice takes time. Practice takes commitment. Through practice, we develop a habit. Through habit, we reconnect with and know ourselves again in different ways. This year we are starting our 2026 bookclub with tools that will support us through the process of creation. The Book of Alchemy is a collection of 100 essays, each offering a prompt to open up our creative outlet and our hearts to this deeply fulfilling new practice. |  |
 David Grey Workshop April | 2025 WRAPPEDThis year has been a continuation of the momentum that started to build in 2024. It’s been fuelled by the drive to educate my clients and community on their abilities (which are usually more than they believe) and my own unrelenting desire to learn. Here are my top three wins for this year:
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“I had never been able to continue doing any forms of exercises all my life until I started going to Natasha’s classes. My shoulders and neck always had issues because of my profession, but I learnt how to properly stretch and strengthen those areas and now I’m doing so much better. The class has helped me to learn and have a deeper sense of my own body - strengths and weaknesses, and habitual movements I tend to make. Natasha’s enthusiasm for keeping us strong motivates me to keep at it. Her ability to navigate the whole class with such positivity to make the very specific movements of our joints or muscles is just amazing! After every class, I feel more connected and in tune with my body’s movements (well because my muscles are burning?!) and my spirit lifted! It’s hard to describe what it is, but if you come to her class, you will understand! Sweat the Technique is truly it. It is something we can continue doing for the rest of our lives. Thank you, Natasha!”
- M. Tanaka
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