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Lynn Hill Fitness

Personal Trainer, Yoga Teacher & Nutrition Coach. Develop strength, balance and a healthy relationship with your body - for life.

05/05/2026

Advanced yoga students has nothing to do with asana..

1) it’s when they stick with their breath. Whether that means slowing down a sequence or breathing deeply through an intense posture. The breath is treated as just important as the pose.

2) it’s when they skip a posture even when they and I know they’re capable of doing it. When they listen to their body and cultivate their own wisdom to know when pushing it could create an injury instead of a challenge or breakthrough.

3) when they see that the point of the practice isn’t the asana - the handstands, contortions or flexibility. The physical benefits are real but the life applications are the bigger gift.

4) fully blissed out in the final pose of surrender. Understanding the metaphorical meaning and embracing it as important as chaturanga. We all have to skip it from time to time due to life schedules but what an important way to teach yourself that nothing is permanent and that integrating the practice is the way we take it off the mat.

Join me in person or virtually (or both ;)

05/02/2026

Sequencing your class with intention can help your students learn skills in asana that strengthen both their body and their practice!

Today’s class featured mini chaturanga drills to help focus on coordination of core and leg strength as well as proper alignment in the shoulders. (Note these blocks are little too short for the preferred alignment and my shoulders go a little lower than I’d like but the are all I have at home ;)

Join me in person or virtually !

04/29/2026

It’s not that Yoga is bad at strengthening the posterior chain - which all these lifts target.

It’s that our lifestyles have evolved towards more comfort versus challenge. And you know what happens when you stay in your comfort zone? No growth.

More and more people are sedentary. And that’s not a statement of judgment, it’s just a statement of fact. We sit on our butts more than we strengthen them. So while the practice of yoga does do a lot for activating the posterior chain, we need more to build muscle in the posterior chain.

Plus, we can’t just keep stretching our hips and hamstrings in yoga and expect it to magically change if we are not countering that with the appropriate tension loading exercises.

I love yoga! I have been practicing for over 25 years, but I don’t pedal it as a physical magical cure. The asana does a lot for the body, but it does not do everything.

What lifts would you add to the list?

04/28/2026

This week’s theme is pratyahara, withdrawal of senses. It’s one of our 8 limbs of yoga.

Our senses are how we experience the world. They are our mind’s first line of input. However, our mind loves to make up stories based off that input. It’s always searching for connections and patterns. If our mind is used to negative interactions, it’s likely going to create a negative narrative.

Here’s where our yoga practice steps in. We use the 8 limbs of yoga to calm the mind chatter. To stay outside the impulsive reactions as best we can. And one way we can do that is being mindful of the input of our senses. Staying present in the here and now. Not letting our minds runaway with stories and helping to recode the negative narratives in a new way.

I invite you to join me in person on your mat or on our live stream/replay app! I also have my own app with all sorts of flows and workouts!

04/27/2026

You do you but…

You could be learning yogic principles that have been around for thousands of years that help calm the mind and temper reactions.

You could be moving your body in all planes of movement with multiple forms of muscle contraction and breath coordination.

You could be supporting a small business, that woman owned and intent on inclusion and supporting the community.

Or you could stay home. But we have livestream and replay so you’re outta excuses. Go to class.

04/25/2026

Small businesses are NOT the same as corporate gyms, city rec centers or other subsidized organizations. We charge more because we have to. We have more on the line than a city facility. They aren’t going to fail. They aren’t going to not make rent. They aren’t going to close. It’s our lives in the mine here. And my classes are 10000% worth $26. Actually more. Without small businesses, we have no community.

04/22/2026

I’ve shared the mic 🎤 with CEO & Founder, Gita Chakrabarti, a couple of times and it’s always a blast! She’s my latest guest on the Yoga Story podcast and we discuss her “yoga story,” starting with why she started and what keeps her coming back after over a decade of practice.

Find the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and Podbean! Listen to her story and check out the show notes for a special discount code on her amazing granola with 20 plant ingredients to support gut health!

04/21/2026

I have some clients moving out of the area this summer, which means I’ll have a rare 3 spots open for the following:
- personal training at my studio
- one on one yoga (30-45 min)
- nutrition coaching
- menopause coaching (or combination of the above)
- small group coaching
- pelvic floor/core rehab
- yoga teacher mentorship

Times available:
Mondays at 3 pm
Tuesday/Thursdays at 11 am
Tuesdays at 2 pm

Message me if you’re interested in claiming a spot! Virtual or in person available

04/20/2026

I’ve taught yoga for over a decade. Practiced for more than 20 years. I was around when yoga celebrities weee on DVDs, books and

Here’s what I no longer teach:

1. Max calorie burn in a yoga class? I get that asana is what usually gets people into the door, but overstimulating the nervous system to burn extra calories is the opposite of what the yoga system is intended to do. Challenge you? Sure. Burn 500 calories? No.

2. My mentor taught me that yoga was all you needed. While it is an amazing and inclusive system, the physical body needs more than body weight resistance and hot power flows. Appropriate weight training and cardiovascular conditioning provide a well rounded health picture. And yes, I think they should be separate from your yoga practice

3. I used to whip my classes through 60 minutes of hyper speed flows. Little down time and exhausted by savasana. We aren’t meant to rest in this pose because our body is so worn out. That used to be the only way I could sleep. Now, I see that a balanced nervous system is the most effective way to getting true rest

4. I 100% believe that yoga as a practice should evolve but adding so many external factors to an asana practice just to make it trendy and more appealing to the masses only adds more distraction to a practice that is all about presence.

5. So many arguments on social media about what yoga is and what it isn’t. What good teachers do or don’t do. It’s feeding the machine and causing division in a practice that’s all about unification and peace. I won’t follow influencers who is it on their platform either.

04/10/2026

Join me for a women only day retreat on May 30th at Little Sugar Farms!

04/02/2026

Little bit namaste. Little bit namastaythef**kaway from me

03/30/2026

Are you a woman in perimenopause and want an efficient and effective strength program?

Do you need the ability to recover from your workouts in 1-2 days and have enough exercise experience to complete the big 5 lifts (squat, deadlift, bench press, row, overhead press) with correct form?

Do you have access to heavier weights, a gym or other equipment?

If so, and you’d like to help beta test my new strength program, please DM me!

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http://www.lynnhillfitness.trainerize.com/

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