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Christina Lynn McGrath

High Performance Coach | Ultra Runner | Creative
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Are you looking for something to transform your life and jump start your health goals for 2022? Swell Fit Living is all about enhancing performance, reaching goals and eating right to get there. I have been working in the health industry for over 15 years, specialising in Yoga and Food for the Athlete in all of us. I work with range of clients including professional and amateur athletes, snowboarders, skiiers, surfers and everyday fitness people. As an athlete, I understand the importance of balance and nutrition in everyday life. Fuel your body with exactly what it needs to boost your performance and increase your energy everyday! Always balance. Fit for life. XO Christina McGrath

29/08/2025

✨ Coastal Grit & Wild Light ✨

Tomorrow’s the day 🌊💙
The walls are alive with the ocean’s pulse, the Matakana Collection finally hanging in its new home at The Farmer’s Daughter.

Every piece carries the rhythm of this coastline — the tides, the trails, the light that shifts over the sea and hills. It’s been such a journey to pour my heart into this work, and I’m so excited to share it with you.

Join us for an afternoon of art, community, and live acoustic music by Chris Bates. Come feel the flow, the grit, and the wild light that inspired this collection.

📅 Tomorrow, Saturday Aug 30
🕑 2–4 pm
📍 The Farmer’s Daughter, Omaha
🎶 With Chris Bates

Can’t wait to see you there ✨

28/08/2025

✨ I can hardly wait to share this… ✨

This Saturday, the Matakana Collection will finally be unveiled — a body of work born from salt spray mornings, trail runs at Tāwharanui, cool surfs at Omaha, and the deep pull of this coastline I now call home.

Each piece carries the rhythm of this place — emerald tides, navy depths, sunlit sands — woven with movement, poetry, and flow. They’re as much about feeling as they are about seeing. About that breath between waves, the line we ride, the magic in connection.

Join me as I open this collection for the very first time at Coastal Grit & Wild Light — a soulful afternoon of art, music, and community.

📅 Saturday, Augus 30
🕑 2–4 pm
📍Farmer’s daughter, Omaha
🎶 With live acoustic sounds by

Come see, feel, and maybe even find the piece that feels like it already belongs to you. 💙🌊

26/08/2025

Exhibition time ✨
Showcasing…..

The Matakana Collection is a love letter to the rugged beauty and quiet magic of New Zealand’s east coast. Each piece is infused with the raw textures of wind and tide, the shifting dance of light on water, and the grounded strength of the land. Inspired by the meeting points where ocean swells kiss rocky headlands, and where soft dawns break over resilient shorelines, this body of work captures both the grit that shapes us and the light that calls us forward.

This exhibition celebrates the coastal spirit: bold yet tender, weathered yet luminous. It’s for those who have stood with salt spray on their skin, who have watched sunlight shatter on the sea, and who know that beauty often lives in the spaces where grit meets grace.

See you Saturday at

12/08/2025

🥶 Feeling stuck in winter mode?
Time to reboot your body + mind.

🔥 Winter Re-Boot — Sat 16 Aug
3 hours to:
✨ Build heat + strength with yoga
✨ Boost energy + immunity with simple nutrition + recovery hacks
✨ Reset your mindset so you finish winter strong

This isn’t about grinding harder — it’s about finding your rhythm, tuning in, and thriving this season.

Let’s do this team 🙏❤️
Link in bio.

11/08/2025

Thank you for the beautiful feature ✨
Feeling deeply grateful to be part of a creative community that celebrates the grit, colour, and heart of this place we call home.

The Matakana Collection is taking shape — emerald sweeps, deep navy currents, flashes of turquoise and amethyst. Each piece is an echo of the land and sea around me: the white sands of Omaha, the rugged edges of Ti Point, the rolling trail lines of Tawharanui.

These new works are a dance between movement and stillness, mountain and wave — lines carved like snowboarding down a static slope, and rhythms ridden like the ocean’s song. The kind of pieces you can look at every day and still see something new… not because they’ve changed, but because you have.

Here’s to the beauty of connection, the magic of flow, and art that feels like home.

Works can be viewed online to purchase - link in bio ✨

06/08/2025

Running barefoot.
Strings under my fingertips.
Wheels spinning.
Hands stained with resin.
This is the rhythm I chase.

There’s a place between breath and beat where I come alive —
In the salt of a sunrise run, the stillness between chords, the wind that carries me around another bend on my bike, or the fluid wave of colour spreading across canvas.

It’s not about performance.
It’s not about perfection.
It’s about presence.
About finding that thread where the doing disappears and being takes over.

Some days, the art begins in my legs.
Some days, in a guitar chord I can’t quite get right.
Other days, it’s born on the breeze off Ti Point, landing on wood and canvas with no plan, only feeling.

This is my way in.
To flow.
To freedom.
To something bigger than me.

05/08/2025

Hey hey… are you ready to walk into a new adventure?

Whether you’re just starting to think about getting back into it… or you’ve got an epic race or wild idea brewing—I got you.

Let’s do this. Welcome to my lifelong obsession with being sporty 🏃‍♀️🏄‍♀️⛷
And more importantly, staying strong, clear, and in flow while doing it.

That’s exactly why I created the Flow For Performance Workshop — a one-day experience to reset your body + mind in the most soul-nourishing, energy-boosting way possible.

We’ll move through breath-led yoga, strength-based mobility, recovery tools, mindset shifts, and practical nutrition tips — and you’ll leave feeling stronger, clearer, and more connected to how you really want to train, move, and live.

✨ FLOW FOR PERFORMANCE
📍 Bali Garden, Matakana
🗓 Saturday, 23rd August
⏰ 10am–2pm
💰 $150 (includes treats, tea + your performance playbook)

Whether you’re a runner, surfer, lifter, or simply craving a reset, I’d love to support your journey.

Spots are limited — hit the link in bio to grab yours 💫

04/08/2025

Athlete Meet-Up + Recovery Session
📍 The Hub, Matakana
🗓️ Sat, August 9 | ⏰ 1–3 PM

Performance isn’t just about how hard you train.
It’s about how well you recover.

Whether you’re training for something big, coming back from injury, or just navigating life as a high-performer — the sauna is where we come back to balance.

✨ Reset your nervous system
✨ Boost circulation + detox
✨ Reduce inflammation + muscle fatigue
✨ Deepen breath, connection + presence

Join me for a relaxed athlete meet-up in the sauna — a space to connect, chat goals, share stories, and feel into your next level with like-minded legends.

💬 Bring your questions — about running, recovery, nutrition or flow
💦 Sweat it out, sip water, share laughs
🌿 Rebuild from the inside out

This is for athletes, weekend warriors, high-performers, and anyone who needs a little recharge in great company.

Limited space — DM to save your spot.
$20 per person
Let’s sweat with intention.

04/08/2025

Introducing: The Matakana Series
Created in rhythm. Poured with feeling. Inspired by this land I now call home.

Trail runs through Tāwharanui. Cold ocean surfs at Omaha. Windswept rides through Ti Point bush. Conversations, movement, stillness. It’s all in there.

Emerald headlands. Deep navy shadows. White sand lines. Resin and ink layered like memory.
This series isn’t just coastal — it’s emotional. A mirror for those moments when presence meets perspective.

Some pieces look different every time you see them. That’s not the art changing — it’s you.

I can’t wait for you to meet them.
🖤

04/08/2025

✨COASTAL GRIT & WILD LIGHT✨
An afternoon of soul, rhythm, and connection

I’d love to invite you to a very special gathering…

Saturday 30th August
2–4 pm
Art + live music + deep presence under the winter sky.

I’ll be sharing my newest collection — a love letter to the coast — poured in resin, layered with movement, and filled with the pulse of this place.

✨ Live acoustic set by the incredible Chris Bates
🥂 Drinks + canapés
🎨 New original works, each one a conversation in colour

This is for the feelers, the sea-dreamers, the ones who know that art isn’t just seen — it’s felt. That moment when something on canvas mirrors something in you.

Can’t wait to share this magic with you.

31/07/2025

Feeling deeply seen 💙
This feature in Junction Magazine feels like a full-circle moment — from snowy peaks to salty seas, paint-covered hands to trail-worn shoes, and now, a beautiful new community here in Matakana.

Huge thanks to the team at for capturing the heart of my work and the rhythm behind each piece. It’s more than art — it’s movement, it’s soul, it’s connection.

To those I’ve met recently — your warmth, curiosity, and open-hearted conversations have made this place feel like home already. I’m so excited to keep creating, sharing, and exploring what flow state means with you all.

Check out the article in bio for a glimpse into my journey, my process, and what’s coming next — including Coastal Grit & Wild Light on August 30 at The Farmer’s Daughter. Can’t wait to connect with you there.

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Are you looking for something to transform your life and jump start your health goals for 2020? I’m obsessed with optimal health, fitness, peak performance and movement. For over 20 years, I’ve been immersed in outdoor sports, from teaching snowboarding, mountain biking, and rock climbing to running a corporate wellbeing company in London to facilitating team building programs deep in the Rockies. I’ve worked one on one and in groups with a large range of clients including professional and amateur athletes, busy professionals, and high powered leaders. As an athlete, adventurer, and entrepreneur I understand the importance of balance, breath and nutrition in everyday life. Fuel your body with anti-inflammatory foods to boost performance and increase energy, develop habits to support optimum cognitive output, and recover well to increase strength, focus and productivity. My programs and videos will not only help you succeed in optimum health but allow you live well and feel great everyday. Contact me for a free discovery session to see what program is right for your goals. Always balance. Fit for life.

XO Christina McGrath

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