From freerunning to free motion, this month’s trainer spotlight is Mike Berina, a passionate and dynamic Yoga Tune Up® and Roll Mannequin® teacher. Mike combines his ardour for health and motion with a give attention to longevity and well being span. Mike is aware of the thrill of serving to individuals transfer higher, get better sooner, and stay pain-free lives.
Interview led by Meg, Tune Up Health’s Model Engagement Supervisor, with over 25 years of dance expertise, beginning in Dallas, Texas, and has now traveled the nation performing and instructing. After years of repetitive dance actions, Meg’s ache in her shoulders, fingers, and toes was relieved by the Roll Mannequin® Technique. This new data impressed Meg to finish extra Tune Up Health programs; she continued to take Physique By Breath and Yoga Tune Up® Trainer Certification to share it together with her college students and reawaken her love for anatomy.
Mike Berina is a Roll Mannequin Technique Practitioner and Yoga Tune Up Licensed Trainer who assessments limits and reaches new bounds of embodiment. Mike brings an adventurous spirit to his ardour for health and motion. Whether or not he’s pushing his limits by way of parkour, cliff leaping, or touring to discover new challenges, Mike embodies a vibrant love for all times. He combines this vitality with a deep give attention to longevity and healthspan, serving to individuals transfer higher, get better sooner, and stay pain-free lives whereas inspiring them to embrace their very own sense of journey.
Be taught extra about Mike on this month’s Trainer Spotlight interview beneath.
Meg: What number of years have you ever been instructing:
Mike Berina: 7 years instructing the Roll Mannequin Technique, and 6 years instructing Yoga Tune Up
Meg: Why did you begin instructing?
Mike Berina: I acknowledged how a lot better my high quality of life was after taking Yoga Tune Up lessons with Laurie Streff in 2016. I had struggled with IT band ache for years, nevertheless it was utterly gone after taking these lessons. Then going by way of the Roll Mannequin and YTU certifications and incorporating the practices and what I realized actually locked it in. It felt nice shifting in my physique and never residing with persistent ache. I began to see the standard of my life was noticeably higher in all areas. Higher meditation observe, no extra street rage when caught in LA visitors. I began weightlifting, yoga, and dancing at live shows; I felt like I used to be residing my finest life.
I believed to myself, how extraordinary would life be if everybody else round me felt this nice? So, I began instructing first to assist my household and mates resolve their ache points and get them shifting and feeling higher.
Meg: What’s your No. 1 tip for academics:
Mike Berina: Be observant. College students don’t all the time vocalize their ache or emotions. Watch your scholar’s physique language, facial expressions, and respiratory. Even my ordinary college students generally don’t vocalize in the event that they want modifications. I’ve to be vigilant for non-verbal communication and beneficiant with giving modification choices to make sure everybody feels good of their motion observe.
Meg: Do you’ve got any thrilling hobbies that rolling has helped help?
Mike Berina: Weightlifting, freerunning/parkour, and journey. Rolling has taught me the best way to apply the strategies in actual time to do what I have to do.
Simply final week, I used to be canyoneering within the Philippines, leaping throughout rocks off of 26-foot cliffs right into a meandering river. My ankle landed weirdly on a rock a couple of third of the way in which by way of the path. It may have been a minor sprain. However no biggie. I simply sat on a rock and took a minute to manually mobilize my ankle utilizing self-massage strategies I’ve realized from Tune Up Health. Then, I used to be again to my journey.
Meg: What’s your favourite rollout:
Mike Berina: “Mother Jean Pocket” with the Alpha ball in opposition to the wall for some very satisfying gluteus medius launch. Additionally “Tensor Fascia Filet”
Meg: What’s your favourite transfer:
Mike Berina: Leg Stretch collection, each to do and to show, as a result of my college students love the hands-on assist for that additional vary of movement within the hips.
I believed to myself, how extraordinary would life be if everybody else round me felt this nice? So, I began instructing first to assist my household and mates resolve their ache points and get them shifting and feeling higher.
Meg: How have the Tune Up Health® Licensed trainings impacted your instructing?
Mike Berina: Lots of the purchasers I work with have talked about that I’m the one trainer throughout the assorted modalities they observe who constantly helps with queuing their respiratory and reminds them to breathe in sync with their actions. The breath methods I realized from Tune Up Health coaching have been instrumental in getting outcomes rapidly. I all the time remind them, “The breath is a very powerful half.”
Coaching with Jill earlier this 12 months for the On-line Yoga Tune Up Trainer Certification gave me a refresher on hands-on changes that I had forgotten since my first coaching, particularly for the Leg Stretch collection. I’ve been incorporating these strategies into my lessons, and my college students adore it!
Meg: How have you ever motivated males to start out shifting extra?
Mike Berina: Truthfully? Competitors. No man needs to be the weakest within the tribe. So, by engaged on myself, I elevate the bar for others to get more healthy and more healthy. Particularly with my faculty mates and my bros on the fitness center. They’ve seen me since I began my health journey and all of the progress I’ve made by way of consistency over time. Nobody needs to get left behind, so we push one another to get higher.
And when my bros have minor accidents and motion points that impede their coaching, I assist them out with their restoration to allow them to get again to shifting and residing effectively.
My strategy has all the time been about longevity and high quality of life. Now in my 30s, I hope to encourage males of all ages to get energetic, cellular, and powerful.
Comply with Mike and be part of his lessons and coaching beneath.
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