Advanced Wellness School

Pilates Reformer Training 🖤
This upcoming Sunday starting at 10am at Fit and Fire. 🔥
We’ve had a lot of people inquire about this training and it’s a great way to learn for anyone, how to perform the exercises in the reformer. One day only, cost is $250 and you’ll receive a book that outlines all of the exercises.

Please contact us to learn more or to sign up. 🧡🔥🧡 Fit and Fire Studios

Check this out !

We are SOOO excited to announce this incredible Fitness and Wellness Challenge and a HUGE shout out to Automaxx of Aberdeen SD for sponsoring this prize!!!

Go to any class - fitness, wellness: Choose from so many types - Hot HIIT, Hot Yoga, Yoga Sculpt, Restorative Yoga, Spin (Just a few weeks away!!), Reformer, Pilates, Rave Yoga, TRX, Aerial, Bungee -- and so much more!!!

The person who attends the most classes between 9-3 and 12-11 will win a full year of FREE Car Washes!! A $6K Value!!!! No need to sign up - we will track it for you and periodically announce the leaders on our social media pages!!!

And check out our incredible sponsor for all of your car needs!! I (Candace) have personally sent a few people there because the people are so friendly and go out of their wait to make you feel welcomed and listened to!!!

Yesterday we had some teachers, yes the ape too, finish Pilates Reformer training.

Ashley, Abby and Julie the ape! 😆

Watch for some new reformer classes to be added to the schedule at Fit and Fire Studios with Lean Body Barre and Hot Yoga

Huge shout-out to Sam Bachmeier for completing her Shirodhara Treatment training. She will be available for treatments almost right away. Contact her to set up an appointment.
Shirodhara is incredible for the hair, reduces fatigue, treats insomnia, improves concentration, lowers stress and anxiety, boosts blood circulation, treats headaches, and can help with jet lag.
A stream of medicated oil is directed to the center of your forehead while you relax and the treatment ends with marma point stimulation which assists in its relaxation effects

HUGE SHOUT OUT and Congratulations to Hailey!!!! She graduated 200RYT Yoga teacher training and is already teaching in Brookings!! So if you are family/friends are in the Brookings area, check out one of her classes at
She can do challenging classes to restorative classes and puts a truly inspirational and uplifting touch to each of her classes!

Congratulations Hailey!!!

If you see this gorgeous face in the middle, Julie, give her a big congratulations! Julie completed her 300ryt advanced yoga teacher training. She is now a 500ryt Yoga teacher!!!! Congratulations Julie Berry !!!!

This is coming up....we need 4 more people to sign up by the end of the month to secure it. Please sign up ASAP or share with someone who would be interested.
21 ce's for Yoga Alliance available.
If you have taken this course before, you can attend for more hours. You achieve full certification at 150 hours. (You can still offer services while you are working for full certification)

Huge shout out to Aberdeen's first graduates of prenatal yoga teacher training. This is a nationally recognized program through yoga alliance. We went through the strict certification process to become a registered prenatal yoga school. These incredible human beings are now skilled to offer prenatal yoga, restorative prenatal yoga, postnatal, yoga, and baby and me yoga.
Each had to demonstrate teaching classes in all of those areas, and having witnessed their demonstrations, I have no doubt Aberdeen is going to be blessed with incredible prenatal yoga options.
Look for more prenatal and postnatal options on the schedule, look for some amazing offerings across the community. Each one of these graduates has an absolute heart of gold, and truly want to create positive experiences, build a community of women supporting each other, and making the beautiful journey of pregnancy a relaxing, fulfilling, and healing one.

For those taking the yoga alliance certified prenatal yoga teacher training this weekend, part of the homework assignments is going to be reading this book. If you would like to pick it up ahead of time, please stop by the studio at 224 1st avenue, Southeast Aberdeen, South Dakota

We had a graduation in December, but it is so exciting we didnt want it to get lost in all of the holiday chaos.

Meet Anna Lillian Moser!!!

Born and raised in New York State, Anna Lillian Moser first discovered yoga over 20 years ago while attending college. She was originally drawn to the practice because unlike most exercises she
encountered, yoga gave Anna an instant feeling of beauty and gracefulness (and if you’ve ever seen her dance, you know this is an anomaly).
As the Director of K.O. Lee Aberdeen Public Library, Anna is a constant proponent of making knowledge and information as easy and accessible as possible, and it was this idea-that yoga should be available to any and every one-that eventually led to her pursuing her teacher certification. She looks forward to offering classes at K.O. Lee, gearing them towards children, teens, older adults, and individuals who have never tried yoga before.
When she isn’t at the library, or practicing yoga, Anna can be found taking care of a menagerie of (far too many) animals, all of which were adopted.

Ugh. It's a brutal truth about the yoga industry.
You can learn to protect yourself, offer out what you can to build collaborations, it's a wonderful way to build yoga community as a whole. But it also comes with the realization that some people just don't know how to collaborate without competition. And sometimes they can be hard lessons to learn.
As a yoga teacher, I've had the judgmental looks, the condescending posts and emails, lies, insults. And in the deepest tradition of yoga, I understand that this is actually a reflection of the person throwing shade my way. I take all criticisms as learning lessons, and some can be quite corrective.
In our teacher trainings, we always talk about not only the importance of collaboration instead of competition, but the importance of respecting other yoga teachers and their practices. With over 400 different types of yoga, to say that one person is a better yoga teacher than the other is akin to saying one singer is better than all the rest of the singers in the world. Because it is the receiver's experience that creates the ranking, and every receiver is different, there can be truly no " best singer in the world" just as there can't be a " best yoga teacher in the world".
I truly believe we are, as teachers, there for the guests that come to our studios, sometimes we are exactly what our guests need and other times someone else can serve them better, and to honor the practice of yoga, means that it is our responsibility to guide our guests to their best path.
We can always do better, and we can always be better. In fact, that's another facet of yoga is to be the person off the mat that you strive to be on the mat, spreading peace and compassion

It’s Time We Look at Some Not-Very-Yoga-Like Behavior Happening Among Many Yoga Teachers In the past, I have invited a colleague to lead part of my prenatal yoga teacher training. In addition to being a yoga teacher, she is also a doctor of physical therapy and was able to teach us all how to assess ourselves for particular conditions.