Wow! So here I am writing our first blog post... on our brand new
website.... for our beautiful new Pilates studio. THIS. IS. HAPPENING!
We have dreamed,
spoken of, written down, calculated, anticipated and fallen asleep
to thoughts of this day for much longer than 2016. This is been a long
awaited plan
in the making and we are so thrilled to welcome you to Inhale
Pilates. These are the moments in life we reflect back on, those big
events that get
your heart racing a little faster, the smile on your face increasing
and this giddiness of anticipation that starts to build inside you.
Don't get
me wrong these sorts of big moments in your life when you look back
on, and this particular one is no different, are also a hell of amount
of work,
stress, tears and heated discussions. But I think the defining line
is that these big changes make life better rather than worse and that
absolute
sheer pause of reflection to really think "Wow this is happening to
me, I am so freaking blessed!" are the defining difference between "hell
yes!"
and "mmmm no". At 28 years old, this is one of those big moments in
life for us. This truly is dream come true material and we are beyond
the definition
of the word happy to share this physical creation of our dream with
you, our community.
Let me also take a moment to verbally recognise that these big life
events simply do not occur because we put our heads together as a team
and came up
with a plan that we have now executed. They happen because a
community of people - our friends and family firstly, our clientele, and
our Kiama community
get behind us, they back us and believe in us and and therefore this
transformation, this growth of a business and the end result being a
stunning
community space to move your body in - is ultimately a massive
result of a much bigger group of people than just Mitch and I. So I
would like to thank
you all. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your love and
support. Not only within our community but across the globe! The
exceptional human
who built this website in Hawaii for us, built our Coming Soon page
on pure trust in a fellow human being. We didn't yet have the financial
position
we were needing to pay her for another 2 weeks and yet she put
together our page on pure genuine trust that we would pay her when we
said we would.
That in itself is truly special. The builders on site have lent us
tools, advice and a bit of humour when we have had questions a little
out of our
depth. Our family has held our hand and encouraged us through thick
and thin. And you our clients and community are on this journey with us,
as excited
as we are, and coming along for the ride. We are the definition of
blessed (there may even be a picture of us in the dictionary next to the
word!).
We recently went to a friends wedding the other weekend and the
speeches made that night genuinely stayed in my mind for days following.
I just kept tossing
them around in my brain and running over the words said particularly
by the grooms father. He stated something very obvious that we most
certainly
all know, but that we often definitely all forget at times - "When
you look back on your life it is the people that you surround yourself
with and
who you associate yourself with that make your life good or great".
It really got me reflecting on some things at this pivotal changing
point in our
lives and I started to look 40-50-60 years ahead and started to work
backwards in what I wanted to reflect back on as an 80 year old. For
this reason,
Inhale Pilates is not simply a business for us, we hope that it
grows to become a beautiful community space for people to not only move
their bodies,
improve their movement patterns and feel strong but also a
supportive space whereby people can speak openly, trust others, learn
and make lifelong
friendships in a sanctuary where you can unplug but recharge. Life
is short, lets simplify and reconnect.
Welcome home to yourself and welcome to Inhale Pilates.
Lauren x
