Our Purpose
Our classes and workshops are created to bring our community together through learning, movement, and support. We believe education should feel welcoming, empowering, and judgment-free. Each session is designed to help you better understand your body, support your family with confidence, and connect with others navigating similar seasons of life. You’ll leave feeling informed, encouraged, and cared for.
Mindful Movement
Instructor: Heather Tremblay-Croteau, PT, DPT, CSCS
Levels: All
Duration: 60 minutes – 6 week series
Cost: $150
Capacity: Max 6 individuals
When: TBD
This small-group strength and movement class is designed to help individuals build confidence, improve foundational mechanics, and reconnect to their bodies in a supportive, encouraging environment. Whether you are newly postpartum, returning to exercise after time away, or looking to refine your lifting technique, this class bridges the gap between physical therapy and independent training. The goal is to help you feel strong, capable, and empowered through intentional, high-quality movement.
What You Will Learn
• How to use breath and core coordination to support your lifts and daily movements
• Proper mechanics for squats, hinges, carries, pushes, and pulls
• How to modify and progress exercises safely and effectively
• Lifting technique that improves strength while reducing strain or compensation
• Movement strategies to support postpartum recovery, longevity, and resilience
• How to build strength with intention rather than intensity alone
• How to feel confident navigating a gym or home workout program
What to Expect
This 6-week class blends education with a full-body workout. You’ll move through exercises and stretches in a variety of positions—sitting, kneeling, standing, and lying down. Each session emphasizes form, breath, mechanics, and control while still offering a fun, challenging experience that meets your individual level.
Expect:
• A supportive, nonjudgmental environment
• Small-group coaching and personalized feedback
• Progressive strength and mobility training
• Functional movements and lifting technique practice
• Space to ask questions and learn how to move with confidence
• A class that is challenging but joyful—movement should feel good, empowering, and exciting
This class is appropriate for newly postpartum individuals, those transitioning from PT to independent exercise, and anyone seeking structured, guided movement with expert coaching.
Potty Learning Through Movement & Play (Ages 18 months–3 years)
Potty Ready, Not Rushed!
Instructor: Gina Ellis, PT, DPT — Pediatric Pelvic Floor Therapist
Ages: Toddlers 18 months–3 years
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: $35 per family
Capacity: Max 5 families
When: February 28 at 9:00 AM
What to Bring: A snack, a drink and your favorite stuffy!
This 60-minute workshop supports families in approaching potty learning with clarity, calm, and connection. Parents and children learn together in one supportive session focused on readiness rather than pressure.
This workshop blends education, movement, and relatable guidance to help families build confident potty skills rooted in readiness—not pressure.
Children are welcome to bring a favorite stuffed animal to join them as we explore potty-time routines together. Sharing the experience with a familiar ‘buddy’ often helps little ones feel more comfortable and engaged during new skills.
What Parents Will Learn
• How bladder and bowel readiness develops
• How to recognize reliable body signals
• How to support healthy voiding and bowel patterns
• How to prevent fear, withholding, and regression
• Simple, evidence-based strategies you can start using now
What Children Will Explore
• Play-based activities that teach body cues and “go” language
• Gentle introductions to potty steps and routines
• Confidence-building exploration through movement
• A minimal, child-friendly anatomy lesson
• Basic hygiene and coping tools for common worries
Pelvic Floor & Athletes Workshop
Instructor: Heather Tremblay-Croteau, PT, DPT, CSCS
Levels: All athletes (recreational to experienced)
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: TBD
Capacity: TBD
This workshop is designed to help athletes and active individuals understand how the pelvic floor integrates with strength training, lifting mechanics, breath strategies, and whole-body movement. Many athletes experience symptoms like leaking, pelvic pressure, pain, or core instability without realizing these are often related to pelvic floor tension or coordination challenges—not weakness.
Through education and guided movement, this workshop empowers athletes to train confidently, reduce symptoms, and move with greater awareness and control.
Rooted in evidence and functional strength training, this class bridges the gap between pelvic health and athletic performance.
What You Will Learn
• An overview of pelvic floor anatomy and how it contributes to core stability, power, and load transfer in sport and exercise Pelvic Floor and Athletes
• How common symptoms like incontinence, pelvic pressure, prolapse, hip pain, or low-back pain relate to pelvic floor function, breath, and movement patterns Pelvic Floor and Athletes
• How to assess your current movement patterns including squatting, lifting, hinging, rotation, and jumping
• Breath strategies (including pressure management and avoiding valsalva when appropriate) that support the pelvic floor and core under load Pelvic Floor and Athletes
• Return-to-sport considerations including running, lifting, and impact training postpartum or after pelvic injury Pelvic Floor and Athletes
• How to identify red flags and when to seek pelvic floor physical therapy
• How to modify or progress training to reduce symptoms and improve performance
What to Expect
Expect a blend of education, demonstration, and guided movement. This is an active, interactive workshop where you will:
• Practice foundational assessments such as breath patterns, squat variations, trunk rotation, planks, single-leg work, and core stability tasks inspired by the workshop slides Pelvic Floor and Athletes
• Explore strategies for symptom management, including leaking, coning/doming, heaviness, pressure, and pain
• Learn how pregnancy, postpartum changes, stress, sleep, and training demands affect pelvic floor response and performance Pelvic Floor and Athletes
• Complete a movement session that feels challenging, supportive, and confidence-building
• Receive personalized cueing and real-time feedback in a small-group environment
• Leave with clear next steps for training, recovery, and when to follow up individually
You’ll work hard, learn a ton, and walk away feeling more connected to your body and more equipped to train effectively and safely.
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