Arina Hunter

Arina Hunter I help women who struggle with their body image, relationship with food, and body pains build a sustainable routine to prioritize their health.

So they can feel strong, capable, and at home in their body. I help you enjoy life and feel confident, comfortable, and capable in your body by overcoming mindset, fitness, and nutrition struggles. Online, virtual and in person fitness, nutrition, mindset, health and wellness coaching. In person sessions and personal training offered in San Francisco. Certified Personal Trainer, Nutrition Coach, Pre and Post Natal Coach, Women's Fitness, Corrective Exercise, and Online Personal Trainer. Qualified in Pilates, TRX, mobility, strength, and functional training. In Progress: Master Health Coach and National Board Certified Health Coach

03/08/2026

My clients have dubbed this a magic neck stretch.
If you have neck, upper shoulder, shoulder blade, or mid back tension, this is for you!
Hit multiple areas in 30-45 seconds.
A release before sleep,
A moment of reset to break from, start, or end your work day,
A little moment of self care within it all.
Take 30 seconds with me and give your neck and upper back some love.

Your neck and shoulders are a very common area that people feel stiff, tight, tension, and pain.
We can help to alleviate this through intentional moments of stretch and movement like this little one and through purposeful strength.

Your neck and upper shoulders are an area that often hold the tension, stress, hecticness, or just weight of the day. And they often just get accepted as daily aches and pains.
Let’s do something about that!
Take a little moment to release some tension and move your neck!

Little general rule of thumb: when you are doing a neck stretch and holding the back of your head/base of your skull, you can give a little pull and increase. When you are holding the side of your head/hand near your ear, just use the weight of your arm without any additional pull.

Save this for when you have neck pain, shoulder stress, or are feeling a bit stiff.

03/06/2026

If you have an active brain, thoughts, and mind,
Tactile touch is a great way to ground an active mind and self.

Having something active to do and think about can be a great way to access breathing, focus meditation, and find mind release.
Especially if you find it harder to just breathe.
If you have thought,
Why can I not just breathe, or just relax?
Why does my mind run and keep thinking of x, y, a, b, g?
This one might be for you.

Five finger breathing is a wonderful breathing prompt to ease for sleep, to ground, and to slow things down with an intentional focus.
Gently touch your index finger to the side of your palm near your thumb. Draw a line up your thumb and slow inhale. Follow the line up and over and down the other side to the inner curve, slowly exhaling. Continue inhale trace up and exhale follow down. All the way to one your pinky finger and slowly work your way back.
Gently soften or close your eyes to add to this moment of grounding.

Through tactile touch and having a specific pattern to follow, ground into, and find flow within,
it can help to give you a clear focus, intention, and sense of pace.

Tactile touch and intentional breath patterns are also wonderful if you experience anxiety, stress, overthinking, panic, or running thoughts.

If you find yourself anxious, tense, breathing small and fast, not the verge of fight or flight, feeling panic,
Slowing down your breathing and using tactile touch is a wonderful way to help distill and ground.
Touching your hand, your hands to your ribcage, to your belly, pressing your arms into the wall.
Taking long full breaths.
Exhale letting all the air slowly out, out, out, out, out.
Fully letting your inhale fill with a soft hold before fully releasing all the air out.
Letting your breathing soften down away from your neck, top of your shoulders, and head,
and down into your lungs, ribcage, belly, and pelvic floor.
Grounding yourself back into your body and back into the present moment.

Pop back for more little moments for you and your wellness 😊

03/05/2026

Your breath is an incredibly powerful tool to reset, refocus, settle and calm.
When life feels funky, heavy, hectic,
A tiny intentional moment of breath can aid in resetting your system.
When we are stressed, anxious, rushed, we tend to breath into our shoulders and neck in small, shallow breaths.
You might feel your shoulders tense, your neck rounded forward, tension in your jaw, the stress of the day weighing heavy on you.
When you slow things down and take even just a couple breaths,
your shoulders might soften, your ribcage expand, your heart rate slow.
When we take little moment to drop our breath back down into our ribcage, belly, and core it helps to slow down the system, ground your physical and mental self, to bring you out of that fight or flight response, and to connect back to the present time and
self.
Your breath is also an incredible tool for feeling and connecting to your core.
Breathing patterns like this one are fantastic that whole self grounding along with diaphragm and core strengthening.
Your breath can do many things!

If you have been struggling with stress, fatigue, anxiety, overwhelm, trouble sleeping, life whirling,
a little intentional moment of breathing can help to reset, ground, and bring you back into a little moment of calm.

What did you feel as you took 30 seconds with me to breathe?

Small is mighty.Little things are powerful in your workout, in life, in going after your goals, in building routine, in ...
11/16/2025

Small is mighty.
Little things are powerful in your workout, in life, in going after your goals, in building routine, in making change happen.
It is often the little things, the small and mighty that get you to show up, that make big change happen.
My clients often hear me repeat small is mighty.
Because small and intentional exercise motions are so mighty.
Because the little actions that you take are truly powerful in showing up and continuing to.
Many of the things you do will be tiny things that build into your health now and the future, into reducing pain, into feeling strong and capable, into building your health and wellness routine now and through each stage of life that will come.
Such as:
-Getting more movement in your day. Standing up. Walking. Stretching. A quick workout.
-Eating with more intention. Listening to your body’s cues and signals.
-Allowing yourself to actually ease into sleep. Turning off screens. Breathing. Mind dump journaling. Gentle mobility and stretching.
-Core exercises that are about your hips staying still, or your ribcage moving, a little twist, or small support.
-Continuing to show up and do 1, 5, 10 minute actions consistently even when it is harder, even after a funky week, even when you have lost momentum and motivation.
A one minute action done 5 times a week is still over 250 minutes closer to your goals.
Small is mighty!
Tiny actions can make huge impact.
Hi! I’m Arina, a Personal Trainer and Health Coach who specializes in injury recovery, corrective exercise, prenatal and postpartum fitness, nutrition, stress management, sleep, recovery, and overall health and wellbeing.
I empower women to feel strong, capable, and at home in their body.
I have a coaching program that helps women who struggle with their body image, relationship with food, and body pains build a sustainable routine to prioritize their health. So they can finally feel the change they have longed for.
I have two spots opening up this November. Comment 🌻to see if it is the right fit for you.

11/13/2025

Where and what is my pelvic floor?
Many of my clients come in never having heard about their pelvic floor, only recently, or just slightly.
Never heard of it? Heard the name but not totally sure what it is referring to, have a vague idea, you are not alone.
So let’s talk through some basics together!
If your pelvis was a basket, your pelvic floor would make up the bottom weaves of the basket.
Or like a hammock from your tailbone to the front of your pelvis. Think of how the weight you add or remove from the hammock shifts it.
Another image is that your core is a canister: the diaphragm/your ribs are the top, the abdominal core muscles wrap the sides, and your pelvic floor muscles form the base/bottom of the canister.
It holds your inner organs inside you. Helping them to not fall down.
You can think of it as the muscular base to your core muscles.
We can work on strength to support you lifting weights, lifting and carrying things or baby, jumping or running, supporting through pregnancy and caring for your growing baby, and living life. Along with release and relaxation.
We need both strength and relaxation! And tightness/tension is equally a struggle my clients work to find balance with as weakness (you tend to hear more about being weak and needing to strengthen, it is a balance between)
I recommend working with a pelvic floor physical therapist and a Coach/Personal Trainer who is trained in the pelvic floor during exercise.
Hi! I’m Arina, a Personal Trainer and Health Coach who specializes in prenatal and postpartum fitness, nutrition, stress management, sleep, recovery, and overall health and wellbeing.

I have a coaching program that helps women through the stages of pregnancy, birth, recovery, preparation, and postpartum health (even years postpartum), aging through injury recovery and rehabilitation, and pain mitigation. To build a sustainable routine to prioritize their health. So they can feel strong, capable, and at home in their body through each stage and shift.

How to actually follow through with your goals,I was chatting with a client this past week setting a new action goal.As ...
10/27/2025

How to actually follow through with your goals,
I was chatting with a client this past week setting a new action goal.
As I asked her how confident she felt in making it happen, she said I kinda think that I can.
We chatted to see how we could make this new thing happen in her daily life more easily.
She said yes I think I can make it happen.
I asked, what would help you to feel I can and will make this happen without a doubt?
And we explored how to turn that action into a doable challenge.
There is a lot of hidden power in this small word shift!
When you say I think I can, it takes some of the accountability, plan, and intention out of your action.
You are giving yourself an out by saying think.
I think I can, allows me to I think I won’t.
By saying I will do blank action,
You are telling yourself and setting in motion that you will make it happen.
What would help you switch to I can and will instead of I think I can?
Can you make it feel more doable?
Can you set a plan for when and how your task will happen?
Can you write it down, schedule it, put a reminder in your phone, pick a day, time of day, or set an appointment with yourself?
Can you make the action a little smaller so it feels more doable?
Can you talk through it with a coach or accountability buddy?
A tool I like to use with my clients for this is a scale of 1-10. 1 I won’t actually do this. 10 I absolutely can and will do this.
If you are below an 8, what can you shift to bring yourself closer to a 10?
Want a little extra help talking through these shifts? Let’s chat! Drop a comment or send me a message with the task you are working on doing and let’s talk it through to get you going and saying I will!
Go in with the mindset that you will make it happen.
Believe you can and will.
And you are likely you will!
I will make it happen on Thursday afternoon.
If something comes up, I will make it happen on Saturday morning.
Try out making this shift of words for yourself now!
I love helping you to talk through and discover goals and tasks that work well for you. If you would like a little extra guidance and support drop a comment or send me a message and let’s talk through your “I will” action 😊

San Francisco, catch me leading a special breathwork session as part of the Women of Wellness Event November 1st at wowe...
10/23/2025

San Francisco, catch me leading a special breathwork session as part of the Women of Wellness Event November 1st at woweventsf.com!
We will dive into:
-How to rewire your breathing
-The most the effective way to feel your core
-Breathing tactics for physical and mental centering
-Stress relief and mindset focusing
-Your diaphragm, core, pelvic floor through breathing
This is a special opportunity to dive in with me!
Women of SF — this one’s for YOU!
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Interactive workshops include Breathwork Workshop, Pilates, and a healing Sound Bath
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Plus: our Vibrant Vibes hour with scrumptious bites, elixirs & sisterhood vibes
This is your time to learn practical methods to enhance your longevity, relax your mind & expand your holistic health team.
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Arina is a Wellness Coach, Personal Trainer, Breath Work and Core Integration Specialist. She is passionate about movement, wellness, and helping others live their best lives. Arina’s holistic, whole-body approach is tailored to each client’s unique goals and needs; whether improving general health, reducing pain, boosting body comfort, or navigating prenatal and postpartum. Her breathwork coaching connects mental grounding, core connectivity, mindset reset, and functional daily movement.

10/23/2025

Can I lift weights through pregnancy? Start to workout? How much weight can I lift?

You can still lift and start to lift! And you can lift heavy if you feel safe.

You can workout and start to workout -through conception, pregnancy, and all stages of postpartum with guidance.

You will be lifting, carrying, holding, picking up, supporting throughout motherhood. So we got to start to get you ready now!

Mom life requires strength, resilience, adaptability, and you to show up in your health and self. The most powerful thing you can do for your child’s and family’s health is to prioritize your own health.

A good general check in to make sure you are safely lifting and working hard in your workout:

-Do you still have a little bit left in you? Could you walk home? Have energy for the next tasks in your day?

-Can you stop when you could still do 2-6 more reps?

-Are you able to breathe comfortably without strain? Could you say a full sentence without gasping for air?

-Do you feel challenged?

A coach is a wonderful resource to find your safe push; take away the stress of what to do, how, and what is safe; and to help you to challenge yourself in ways that adapt and support each stage of your unique pregnancy.

Hi! I’m Arina, a Personal Trainer and Health Coach who specializes in prenatal and postpartum fitness, nutrition, stress management, sleep, recovery, and overall health and wellbeing.

I have a coaching program that helps women through the stages of pregnancy, birth, recovery, preparation, and postpartum health (even years postpartum). To build a sustainable routine to prioritize their health. So they can feel strong, capable, and at home in their body through each stage and shift.

For my clients and myself, the changing factor in how long their pain lasts, its intensity, how often chronic pain resur...
10/12/2025

For my clients and myself, the changing factor in how long their pain lasts, its intensity, how often chronic pain resurfaces, and the ability to move as pain free as possible has been:
-Building intentional strength and habits to stabilize your joints, finicky areas, and stabilize your core.
-Learning how to effectively support and stabilize your body through your posture and alignment to better support your body through daily life and all the in betweens.
-Finding the moments you need to reduce and limit motions that make it pang, increase, scream a little bit. While knowing you can likely still move other body parts and still workout with small shifts.
-Find ways to keep moving! Not moving can intensity pain. Especially for arms, legs, and backs. Gentle, soft movement focusing on blood flow over a big stretch.
-Give your body time. To recover. Kindness to rest. Acknowledgement of the frustration. While giving yourself grace.
-Prioritize sleep, recovery, nutrition, hydration, and intention in movement.

When you turn these tools into intentional strength in your workouts and into the habits of your daily life,
You can recover more smoothly.
Alleviate long term and chronic painsAnd help keep the body moving and pain free (or as happy as possible) for longer.

My clients are often noting less pain, feeling better moving, and that wonderful moment of not even noticing -because it just felt better.

Ready to reduce your pains, feel stronger in your body, be able to do more of the things you love, and feel at home in your body?

Hi! I’m Arina, a Personal Trainer and Health Coach who specializes in injury recovery, corrective exercise, prenatal and postpartum fitness, nutrition, stress management, sleep, recovery, and overall health and wellbeing.

I have a coaching program that helps women who struggle with their body image, relationship with food, and body pains build a sustainable routine to prioritize their health. So they can feel strong, capable, and at home in their body.

I have three spots opening up this November. Comment 🌻to see if it is the right fit for you.

10/09/2025

Wait, what is DR/Diastasis Recti?
This is the separation of the front abdominals -the re**us abdominis.
The linea alba is the connective tissue between the sides of your re**us abdominis. (Your front ‘six pack’ abs)
There is naturally a small separation between the sides of your front core muscles (your re**us abdominis).
During things such as pregnancy, those abdominal muscles separate to make room for baby.
Know that this separation is a normal thing that happens.
Every single pregnant woman in her third trimester has some diastasis separation. Because baby is taking up space, so those abs have to make some room! This is totally normal and will return back with intentional breathing and movement.
A wider DR separation can happen postpartum, and can still be shifted with purposeful work.
Know if you experience this separation post delivery, we can work to reintegrate the core, reconnect, and to rebuild that strength and connection in your core.
Diastasis Recti is normal during pregnancy.
However it is not something you have to live with and just deal with discomfort from.
We can work to heal and recover from this separation postpartum whether fresh from labor or long term mother.
Exercise leading up to pregnancy, throughout pregnancy, and as part of recovery can all help to recover more smoothly!
Have questions about diastasis recti or exercise during pregnancy or postpartum? Message me and send your questions over!
Hi! I’m Arina, a Personal Trainer and Health Coach who specializes in prenatal and postpartum fitness, nutrition, stress management, sleep, recovery, and overall health and wellbeing.

I have a coaching program that helps women through the stages of pregnancy, birth, recovery, preparation, and postpartum health (even years postpartum). To build a sustainable routine to prioritize their health. So they can feel strong, capable, and at home in their body through each stage and shift.

You might feel like you have to change everything, give up all the foods you love, exercise for hours, have perfect slee...
10/08/2025

You might feel like you have to change everything, give up all the foods you love, exercise for hours, have perfect sleep, and fully get rid of stress to make your goals and change happen.
What you really need?
To keep going, to keep showing up.
To keep doing little things over time with flexible consistency.
It is not about doing it perfectly every single day.
It is about continuing to do little and doable things as often as you can.
Even a 1 minute thing repeated daily is 365 minutes more moving towards what you want.
That much more than if you had kept waiting and waiting for the next Monday, or New Year’s, or when x thing finally settles down.
Change in your routine happens through small shifts and keeping yourself going.
Change in your mindset, self talk, ability to believe that you can make it happen; happens through continuing to take small steps and show up.
You can workout for 2 hours a day 6 days a week. Only eat these 5 foods every day. And follow a very strict and intense plan. (Though likely that will only last so long with everything else happening in your life)
You can also: Fit workouts of varying lengths into your schedule as works for you -5 minutes, 15, 30 are still fantastic workouts! Make small changes to what, how much, when you eat. Shift how you feel about your body, your goals, yourself. Do one thing that helps you get better sleep.
And! You will likely keep doing these smaller things more often and for longer.
If you have ever started and stopped. Put off starting. Felt overwhelmed just by the idea of it,
Try out making it smaller, simpler, more doable.
Find the things you can absolutely do this coming week. The things that almost feel too small. Start there.
Now, you do have to keep doing them.
You do have to find consistency.
And having support, accountability, and a coach to talk it through with has been the game changer for my clients. They feel empowered to make things doable, simple, and the next step for right now. And! They show up and make it happen.
I have a coaching program that helps you feel strong, capable, and at home in your body through life’s changes and stages.

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