2013 - Year in Review

  Happy New Year to all of the students at Flux - School of Human Movement!

Here are some highlights of the past year:

Our coaches did an intensive course with Dr. Andreo Spina, founder of Functional Range Conditioning.  This course was an absolute necessity as it provided a stepping stone for very beginner movers to begin the long journey to movement freedom. As a sidenote, Dr. Spina works with the Chicago Cubs  strength trainers as well as other Major League Baseball Teams. 

We built a bouldering wall in our backyard space and subsequently had Sean Milligan (bouldering expert) in for a 2-day course in bouldering.

We added 3 new types of classes to our diverse schedule: Just Mobility, Acrobatics and Bouldering.

We sent three Flux coaches to the Movement Camp in Singapore - Mieka, Derek and Darci. For one week, we trained 6 hours a day and attended 3 hours a day of lecture with Ido Portal, Odelia Goldschmidt, and Josef Fruzek.

Movement specialist, Odelia G. visited twice to Flux in the year, each time doing a two or three week residency.  Our head coaches - Mieka, Luke and Darci trained every day for 4 hours with her.  Jane and Dallas often joined in as well.  This is a good time to mention how truly thankful I am to have the level of expertise that we do in our full time and part time coaches.

We developed our Entangled Animal Speaker's Series and hosted our first guest, Dr. Shannon Hayes, author of Long Way on A Little and The Radical Homemakers Guide. 

We continued with our third annual Flux Community Garden and I do believe this year was our most plentiful bounty yet. Thanks to Jane's organizational skills, we had the garden weeded and watered on a regular basis.

Sandi and I traveled to Toronto for an advanced Weightlifting course under the legends themselves Coach Ivan Abijiev and his athlete and now coach, Alex Varbanov.  It is so critical to Flux's success that we continue to travel and study under such prominent teachers and mentors.  There is no doubt that our Junior Weightlifting Team has been as successful as it is precisely because we continue to seek out the best in their respective fields. 

We continued our support of the Non-Profit Group People for Animals.  100 percent of your late fees went to People for Animals and Flux once again matched those fees. For the second year Flux is a Bronze level sponsor, donating over 1000 dollars to the group.

Flux also had the opportunity to work with and subsidize the North Central Laker's Football team off-season training. We had about a dozen junior boys learn and compete in the sport of Olympic weightlifting.  

Flux also coordinated a volunteer program with People for Animals.   What does this look like? Every year, Flux sets aside four 6-month memberships in exchange for volunteer hours with People for Animals. So far, we have one Flux volunteer, Melissa Sargeant-Radomski. If you know anyone who would like to come to Flux and is interested in volunteering for a portion of their membership costs, please let us know!

Heid Gruetzner came on full time as our resident Flux Massage Therapist. This has proven to be very successful as it has allowed for much greater continuity of care between Heidi and our coaches.

Flux formed a corporate health sponsorship with Aspen Medical.  I truly believe that Aspen is leading the way in corporate health. Jacob's enthusiasm for health and movement is infectious and he continues to work hard to make Aspen the healthiest company in Canada.  It has been a great joy to witness so many folks from Aspen accomplish their movement goals. Below are some of the good people of Aspen Medical. 

We also started a partnership with the local Non-Profit Group Street Culture.  What is Street Culture? Street Culture Kidz Project is a non-profit, charitable organization in Regina, Saskatchewan that mentors and supports under-serviced youth. Using social entrepreneurialism and positive adult role models, they connect with youth to help them work through changing their lives. Below we have Kim and Sherry from Street Culture.

We hired 3 new staff members, Ariane, Matt, and Lucas. Some of you may not know this, but Ariane is one of the original Flux members from 5 years ago. She used to coach primarily at our satellite campus, SeedMaster.  Now, she is working full time at Flux as Manager of Business Operations. She continues to coach as well. 

Matt and Lucas are our newest coaches:

Lucas is in his first year of Kinesiology with a background in Olympic Weightlifting and CrossFit.  Lucas competed at the CrossFit World Games as a Junior athlete in 20011.  He has taken quite quickly to the acrobatics, and movement and mobility. He most recently completed Dr. Spina's Functional Range Conditioning Course.

Matt has been an enthusiastic member of Flux for many years. He also recently completed Dr. Spina's Functional Range Conditioning Course. Matt is a true generalist, as he feels equally at home with olympic weightlifting and our movement work. 

Sandi Klempner (coach and athlete) received a bronze medal at the Senior National Olympic Weightlifting Competition, held in Edmonton!

I was chosen to be one of the provincial Weightlifting coaches for both Junior and Senior Nationals. 

Flux had one junior - Braiden Baer, compete at Junior Nationals last January.  This January, Flux will send two juniors to represent at Nationals, Braiden and Colton.  Myself, along with Chad Benko, will be the two head coaches for Team Saskatchewan.

Kat and Sandi both competed at Western Canadians

Melissa Mushanski won first place in the Women's Division 2 competition at FrostFit in Winnipeg.

And last, but certainly not least, YOU!  There is no Flux without all of you.  I believe we have the BEST COMMUNITY OF MOVERS in the country. It has been such a pleasure to watch you achieve hard earned goals.  I have witnessed so many people achieve "firsts" this past year - push ups, pull ups, muscle ups, hspu, pistols, etc.  Time and time again we are told what a unique and special place Flux is and I truly believe it is all of you that make it so. I wish you great happiness and health in 2014.

Keep Moving!

Darci