Did you know Hart House is offering their fitness classes online? I was shocked to find out that my favourite fitness classes to attend during the school year are now accessible from my own home (over 4000 km away from…
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Two Weeks In: Online Ballet and my Day to Day
The past two weeks have been unprecedented. So much is happening. I’m constantly checking updates as the situation evolves. I’m often anxious. From tea time to ballet, here’s how my days have looked and some of the strategies I’ve found…
Keepin’ Active
Hey everyone, if you’re like me, then you are also somehow more behind on schoolwork than usual. Other than the sudden transition to indoors with Covid-19, the thing I’ve been struggling with the most is the lack of an exercise…
My Favourite Exercise For Soothing Anxious Thoughts
With the craziness of the past week, I’ve definitely had many moments of feeling anxious, stressed, and overwhelmed. Throughout hard times like this, I think it’s more important than ever to sooth anxious thoughts and think rationally. Even though things…
How I Got Over My Nerves and Started Going to the Gym
I never thought I would become a gym person. After years of hating high school gym class, I never wanted to willingly exercise again. Though I eventually started exercising later in my life, I’d never gone to the gym at…
Staying Healthy During Flu Season
In university, it almost seems like the “flu season” is really the just the school season. Everywhere I go, I hear people around me coughing and sneezing. Normally, I don’t mind too much, but when it gets close to midterm…
Making Spirits Bright: Surviving the Dark Winter in Finland
“Kaamos” is the Finnish word for “polar nights:” some places don’t see sun for three months. Helsinki, where I am, is southerly enough to get some light–almost seven hours per day now! Still, it’s not as luxurious as the nine…
6 Things to Start 2020 Off Right
New year, new semester, new schedule, (new me?)! For my first blog post of 2020 I thought I’d share some of my new years resolutions/beginning-of-the-semester goals, with the intention of holding myself to them as well as maybe inspiring a…
Fit Mix is the right mix
In which I find out what a fit mix is, and enjoy myself more than I believed possible.
MoveU’s Got a Break for your Brain
The stakes were high. There were free things to be obtained.