Greetings from the north!

Our tournee last week to the northern regions to visit our clients was quite hectic – a lot places in a short time. It was really nice to see all the familiar people and to meet new ones and it warmed my heart to see the enthusiasm with which the Lady Grace and renewed Sport products are being welcomed.

We started by visiting Taina Paarmas at her Skin care center in Pikku Huopalahti. We delivered a jar of Timeless Beauty to be photographed for Hyvä Terveys magazine. Taina has a charming, calming clinic with a beautiful view over the bay and the park beyond it.
From there we continued to Peurunka and got there just in time for dancing. What a joy.

Early to bed and early up to meet Teija Hurtta and Riikka Laulaja tell them about the Lady Grace and Sport products. They said that they had been waiting for something new for their clients. Good for us for being so innovative. We’ll see you again towards the end of May to train the staff.  Satu at Kunnonpaikka, Siilinjärvi was already waiting for us for lunch when we arrived there. See you too again in May.

Marjo and Mika from Bomba Fysio in Nurmes have been extremely busy in the past month as they have moved the whole of their M&M fitness club to a new location. They do have the appropriate equipment for anything you can imagine in the line of bodybuilding and keeping the body trim. A clean and well fitted place, a pleasure to visit. We’ll be back again soon to hear more about your personal trainer programme.

Made it to Vuokatti, Holiday Club Katinkulta for the evening meal and then to bed. What a wonderful morning to wake up without the alarm clock. Erja had a busy morning and we saw her after lunch. Katinkulta has had some staff changes and it was nice to meet the new ones as of course those that we already knew. They all were hoping to have some new training so, we see you all in May.

We continued form there to Kajaani to visit Anita Kovalainen at AK clinic to meet  her clients at a special clients’ evening. Her clinic is especially stylish and functional. The dark wood complements the white curtaining, covers and furniture. They create a restful and safe environment where one can just let go.

Thank you all.

Count to ten

Many thanks to all the journalists who were inspired to write about my Wellness-book after its publication in February.

I have been studying the effects of stress for many years and also experienced its pressures in myself.  About 20 years ago a far advanced stress state was called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. From then on I have been developing treatments, treatment- and self care products to strengthen the body and mind, so that we could keep up our wellbeing under the pressures brought on by stress. My Wellness – book is based on this same theme.

When something is obvious to oneself, one tends to think that everyone else knows it too. Perhaps this is why I was surprised that the “killer virus” stress was given so much attention in many daily papers. It seems my supposition was wrong. So at the beginning of my blog I will be looking into the different aspects of stress and give some ideas on what to do to handle them.

I have already had several positive responses from those who have found suitable and working methods from the book to relieve the effects of stress. At the end of the book there is also a chart with guidance to products to relieve such problems as sleeplessness, tension neck etc, which are very common results of long term stress.

To start with, try the boosted “Count to ten”- practice, when the pressures are overwhelming. This is how it goes; Count every exhalation from one to ten and return back from ten to one. If you lose your concentration and the count – do not stress about it - just return to the start. Allow the breath to flow freely so that the counting does not set the rhythm for your breathing, but do the counting in the rhythm of your breath. Feel the flow of the exhaled air in the nose and the lungs and feel how the tension eases.

Morning starts in the evening

This spring I fulfilled one of my dreams. I completed my Wellness-book. It was published in Finnish by Tammi in February. After twenty years of studying the effects of stress in theory and seeing them in practice in my clients and students I finally managed to squeeze my thoughts about wellbeing and feeling good, and about how one can keep stress at bay into this Wellness book.

Stress is a new ”killer virus”! Under pressure our body and mind lives in a continuous fighting mode. It puts a strain on all of the physiological processes in our body and brings on a feeling of panic in our minds and emotions. It causes unexplainable pains, problems with digestion, sleeplessness, depression. If we do not do something with these, they will cause more serious health problems later.  

There is one very simple way to cope in the everyday life by remembering that “morning starts in the evening”. How you feel in the morning has its roots in what you have done last thing in the previous evening. The routines in the evening are the foundation for a good nights sleep and the brightness and well being of the following day. So by ensuring that you evening routines are such that they help you to settle gently in to rest and invigorating sleep you will reap the benefits on the next day.

Mr. Zumba in Finland

I developed the UMG-Wellnes Sport products many years ago for all active movers. Many sports people and those suffering from muscle problems have experienced the relief and help that these muscle care products can bring. The Sport-set includes four products; Sport Power, Sport Balance, Cramp release and Tissue repair.

The world famous Zumba Super Star Alberto “Beto” Perez visited Finland 8–9.4.2010 and I was at both the Zumba-happenings in Turku and Tampere, I presented Beto the whole Sport-set and massaged his travel weary muscles before both the zumba-sets. At the end of his visit in Finland he had commented that only one Finnish woman touched him – twice.