Strength Training in Midlife, and the Inner Work Beside It
At forty eight, a trainer’s words changed how I saw the strong legs I once disliked, opening a question about strength training in midlife and inner work.
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At forty eight, a trainer’s words changed how I saw the strong legs I once disliked, opening a question about strength training in midlife and inner work.

A friend asked me to sit on a board on the way to a root canal appointment. What a Human Design Projector invitation looks like, and the skill it brought back.

There is a grief that arrives before the loss, while your parent is still here. What my clients taught me about naming it, and reaching for them while there is time.

A soaked rug, a Mercury retrograde, and the launch that taught me what happens when I stop trusting my own season.

I mapped every rest stop, and then the doors were wrong and the rain caught us the whole way home. On holding a plan loosely, and the resilience underneath it.
A quiz that takes a minute, and the doorway into everything here.
Take the quizAs a student of social justice, I am actively listening and learning, trying my best to bring about systemic change. I may falter at times but hope that I humbly continue to dismantle cultural appropriation, racism, gender binaries, and other social issues within my business and as part of my personal growth. I shall continue doing the work.
I, Sora Schilling, acknowledge that I live and work on the ancestral homelands of the Tuscarora, Lumbee, and Catawba. I respectfully also honor the Lenape, Canarsie, and Wappinger people as the original stewards of the land I was blessed to be born on and resided in for most of my life. Lastly, may I take this time to give great thanks to my Korean ancestors.
The lands in and around present day Raleigh are the homelands and gathering places of the Coharie, Eastern Band of Cherokee, Haliwa-Saponi, Lumbee, Meherrin, Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, Sappony, and Waccamaw Siouan.