Not feeling OK inside? Want to change how you are existing in this moment?
✨ M O V E ✨
Just re-watched @ryandanielbeck talk on your relationship with movement. Like Ryan movement saved my life, we both began as professional dancers . . . but the story beyond that is where the wisdom & passion to help others lean into their own personal relationship with movement.
Movement is as simple as expanding your rib cage to allow your lungs to fill as you inhale and then softening and blowing out the CO2 as you exhale . . . it’s intuitive in humans to move 💃🏽🎶
Ryan is the inspirational talented generous human heading & running @bodyart.nyc
His message is endlessly curious, inclusive & beautiful. He is insightful, articulate, caring and kind.
Listen to this 15 minute talk Ryan gave @thecreativityconference and you may find a whole new perspective on #movement plus the negative language the fitness industry somehow made exercise punishment as opposed to pleasure 💃🏽🧠☯️🫁🧘🏽♀️🙏🏼♥️
I will pop the link in my bio or you can find it https://youtu.be/-Xz7Rp3eVJI?si=R5tNmPMJLHA7Zf5l
BODYART in Australia often slips under the radar - as Aussies continue to think it is tattooing & many mask the name. Yet globally BODYART training by @robertsteinbacher & @alexa_maithu has been embraced for over 30 years.
APT has been offering & proudly teaching BODYART sessions for 11 years at Studio 1 @rclc3121 , Phoenix Studio @bridgerd.richmond and live online with recording access. Always referring to this full sensory healthy enjoyable experience as BODYART. Proudly with quality & integrity.
Find your way to enjoy moving - sometimes music can help - I love to put music on and just jump & shake - it always helps me feel better. No training or skill required.
M O V E
#themindfulmovement1
#aptpersonaltraining
#move #breath
Friday 15 May 2026
📓🙏🏼♥️ Gratitude Journal
💗 My grandaughter is 46 weeks 🥰
💃🏽💪🏼 Friday at Phoenix @bridgerd.richmond
including
🌀May BREATH experience Biodynamic breathing & a guided breath journey lying down amongst candles & fairylights for some special souls 🫁🧠🌀✨
June BREATH experience is Fri 26 June at 9.15am
🔗 in bio to register interest & receive more information - few of 8 places are available.
Anyone can join - no prep or experience required, just an open mind & willingness to participate.
Felt very average emotionally on & off this week. Used some music and breath techniques in the park on Wednesday. Wow - it blows me away what a difference it makes. I went from struggling & feeling stuck to refreshed and energised. Back in my own body to teach my BODYART bliss that night.
🌀 Don’t underestimate the power of your own breath - the more you learn to use it - the more magical & helpfully healing it can be. This is ongoing - checking in and acknowledging, rather than minimising or avoiding how you feel. I am not talking miracles here (empty promises are not my thing ever)
Now a year out from my BREATH Coach intensive training in Portugal - I have learned so much more & deepened my own practice and teaching.
In Term 3 I will do an after hours session for those who cannot make it to a morning as we have been doing once a month this year. Stay tuned - I’d love you to come along 🌀🙋🏻♀️🙏🏼😊✨
Tip: Did you know 5 minutes of coherent breathing can totally regulate all the systems in your mind & body?
Simply breath in for 5 counts thru your nose
Exhale 5 counts thru your mouth with quality - seated or lying down. Set your phone for 5 minutes - stay focussed.
😁🙏🏼🌀✨
I lost my Mum 22 years ago - not a day goes by I don’t think of her . . . she was kind, warm, fun, emotional, affectionate, creative, curious, graceful, elegant, beautiful inside & out - and she was my Mum ♥️
If your Mum is still here in your life - hug her tightly, accept her annoying bits, appreciate her & love her as hard as you can - she is precious.
You only get one Mum ♥️
♥️ APT’s 18th Birthday week
🎂 Jason’s 29th Birthday
💙 World Ovarian Cancer Day
Term 2 Week 3!
I love to thank my loyal APT Community, by giving & inspiring them to move more & well. Celebrating 18 years of APT - officially 8 May - I did that 3 ways:
MOVE - 💝💃🏽 Free EXPRESS 30 gifted to ALL my current clients as well as offering the opportunity for anyone curious to dip their toe into changing, improving & creating their own movement relationship.
LUNCH - celebrating with those who wanted to join me on Friday THE day @barton.milkbar for some delicious food & connection - thank you to those who came along - it was special because it is about human connection, caring & sharing 🙋🏻♀️🙏🏼♥️
WORDS - that mean a lot! My past client spontaneously shared words a week ago, that gave a glance into her current life and how APT had brought movement back into her life - so she could enjoy living to her most fulfilling chosen way.
This is not about competition or aspiring to win medals or awards. It’s a deeply personal connection with movement & self. Janet would say to me ‘I CAN’ Instead of the old ashamed voice that would hold her back & not even feel she could have a go. This is the essence of APT’s move well to BE well.
My youngest son turned 29 & it was a Mumma’s heart joy to make lasagne & then share it for dinner & have darling hilarious & loveable ‘Goose’ join us. 🥰🎂🐕🪿
💙 Friday 8 May is also World Ovarian Cancer Day @worldovariancancercoalition - close to my heart. My beautiful Mum died of this silent killer 22 years ago. She was diagnosed late & thought her symptoms were post menopausal - she was not aware until it was too advanced. Knowing the symptoms is essential as people don’t realise that
1. Pap smear is NOT for detection of ovarian cancer
2. There is NO early detection test for Ovarian cancer STILL!
3. Knowing the symptoms & risks could save your or a loved one’s life.
With Mothers Day tomorrow - I will be holding the love in my heart for my beautiful caring kind Mumma - I miss her, I thank her & I love ♥️
Keep on moving & breathing
Andrea x
Is this you?
You WANT to get moving & feel strong, mobile and pain-free as you have the privilege of ageing?
You have had odd short spells of buying equipment thinking you will workout at home. But you either never really got into a routine or learned safe techniques & understanding of how your brain & body work together to FEEL good.
You never stuck to it CONSISTENTLY
You never truely COMMITTED to making your movement & exercise a habit for your health.
You are never quite sure WHAT to do!
So you stop or don’t even START
This niggling voice in your head is ashamed and concerned you are losing strength & mobility . . . and yet you are not being pro-active in addressing it. You are burying your head & pretending you are fine - but underneath you feel the decline . . .
You tell yourself it’s because you are, too tired, have no energy or the classic excuse of no time.
This is why APT created & curated EXPRESS 30 😊👍🏼
1. 30 minutes of essential nutritious movement & mat pilates
2. In the comfort of your own home/space
3. Using simple equipment such a chair, mat, dumbells, squishy ball & a towel
4. LIVE online - interactive session - I guide, demonstrate & can SEE you! To teach you 🙋🏻♀️
5. Friendly, non competitive & fun - life essential movement for independence
6. Variations you CHOOSE
7. Giving you the confidence to move with awareness & technique
8. Recording access all week - to do the 3 sessions required to get real improvement - establishing a routine you WILL stick to
9. Boost your energy & strength - bring your motivation & inspiration from DOING it!
10. Welcoming humans & smile + sense of community to start your day &/or where it then fits to practise the rest of your week.
💡 TIP: Schedule your other 2 sessions into your appt diary & KEEP the appt with yourself - you will be high fiving yourself instead of feeling ashamed & dissapointed in yourself.
Sound good?
It gets better!
APT’s 18th Birthday week - join EXPRESS 30 this Tues 5 May 6.30am FREE + receive the recording access FREE.
Simply follow APT here & book into the Session via 🔗 in bio.
See you on Tuesday to move well to be well 🙋🏻
Hello lovely APT Community & friends
APT is actually coming of age – officially 18 years on Friday 8 May!
3 wonderful ways to celebrate – and you are invited 😊
1. MOVE together
EXPRESS 30 – Tuesday 5 May at 6.30am – FREE live session online + included recording access. Functional training & pilates in 30 minute 💪🏼✅
Book 🔗 in bio
2. LUNCH -
Fri 8 May on the day - share food & connection locally - DM for details to join me & #aptcommunity
3. WORDS
That say & mean SO much!
Shared last week, a past client reshared my post when APT was turning 11 - from 7 years ago;
She described her joy of moving in her life now . . . openly & honestly -
her final few words were:
‘. . . I would not be able to do any of this if Andrea hadn’t taken a broken, ashamed and embarrassed me
and nurtured me back to a person who could move again.’
This is the essence of APT -
Janet’s words were both touching and deeply profound, they encapsulate a big part of what APT is about – learning to move well to BE well and enjoy it!!
I am SO proud of the 18 years of APT - started for survival by a single Mum grieving for her own Mum she had lost tragically thru ovarian cancer at the same time as her marriage break-up, bringing up 2 beautiful little sons, showing up day in day out, learning voraciously with curiosity, preparing professionally with creativity & always keeping integrity intact, collaborating with incredible colleagues she respects & admires, giving 110% in every session, even when her own life felt overly tough & unmanageable.
Above all I am SO very proud & grateful for the kind, friendly, generous & pro-active #aptcommunity of the past & present. You rock 💪🏼🥰💃🏽☯️🙏🏼🙋🏻♀️♥️
See you next week.
I am excited to celebrate with you.
Ps. APT’s 18th Birthday falls on World Ovarian Cancer Day - close to my heart - please head over to @worldovariancancercoalition and familiarise yourself with the symptoms of Ovarian Cancer - it could save your or someone you love’s life 💜
#aptpersonaltraining #18 #themindfulmovement1
How do you find peace ?
You don’t find peace
You choose it
By what you ignore
By what you release
By what you stop giving energy to
That’s the shift
Choose your peace ♥️
#themindfulmovement1 #choice #bodyarttraining #human #selfcompassion
A snack a day keeps the doctor away! 🍎😉
A movement snack I mean of course 💁🏻♀️💃🏽😊✨
4 minutes daily - with a menu of 100 nutritious snacks absolutely FREE - it doesn’t get any easier!
I’m handing it to you on a platter 💁🏻♀️😉
Now stop making excuses about having no time - if you are on social media reading this - you have time.
Learn to prioritise yourself - you deserve to move well and feel good.
Set yourself a challenge - a snack a day to keep the doctor away 🍎🥰💃🏽🎶✨
PS. You can read about the research into how effective & beneficial movement snacks are 🔗 in my biog
Choose from:
Barre
Bodystrength
Free weights
Chair tabata
Pilates Mat
Cardio
Boxing
Breathing
Stretch & release
Relaxation
& more
designed to start where you are at - choose variations & create your very own process to progress.
⚠️ Warning - consistent movement snacks daily may make you feel stronger, happier, more energetic, productive, kinder & more caring to yourself 😊✅
Bite Size & Wise FREE library is in the 🔗 in bio 💁🏻♀️
APT meets you where you are ✨
Term 2 has begun - new nourishing, nutritious movement menu:
Mindful Monday, EXPRESS 30, BODYART, Functional-Pilates & BREATH Sessions. One on one Personalised Training & PNF Assisted Stretching.
No more missing out—our movement & breath programs are designed to fit your life, not the other way around. Specializing in the privilege of ageing well.
Choose what works for you:
✅In-studio (3 Richmond locations)
✅Live online (interactive & connected)
✅Included recordings with online bookings (24/7 flexibility)
☯️ The new BODYART H.E.A.L program has officially launched—and you can still join. APT Community are loving it !
‘That was DIFFERENT! Great but different. A lot to work with and for.’
Casual sessions are available, or step into the Ultimate Habits for Life program, with the freedom to book week by week.
Your body, your breath, your pace. No excuses—just opportunities to move well to BE well. 🌿😊💃🏽🙏🏼🥰✨
#themindfulmovement1
#aptpersonaltraining
#65andthrive #richmond3121 #movewelltobewell
A special invitation awaits you to experience the first of our new Term 2 BODYART training H.E.A.L program. Think BODYART Basic joins the magic of InZentive Breath to create
H uman
E ducation for
A lignment &
L ongevity
📅 Wed 22 April 6.15pm
📍Studio 1 @rclc3121
Investment $15
🎟️ Book on link in bio
https://aptbookings.as.me/BAIntro1
APT enters it’s 11th year of BODYART training and turns 18 on 8 May.
Proud Australian BODYART Master Trainer - also longest standing Facilitator & Hirer @rclc3121
👣💃🏽🎶☯️🧘🏽♀️🙏🏼😊♥️ Intuitive essential movement. 5 Energy elements to strengthen, release and rebalance, with new awareness. A mind, body & spirit complete experience.
BYO Mat, water and a jacket or blanket if cool for the relaxation.
Learn more & bookings on link in bio 🔗
No experience required - just curiosity & a desire to enjoy a more vibrant life 😄
