Speaker Series

ENVISION MEMPHIS
149 Monroe Avenue • Cadre Building
Memphis, Tennessee 38103
901-521-8117

Memphis’s Premier Personal Training Facility & Private Health Club

Thursday, October 8th at 6:00pm - Melissa McFerrin at Envision

Join us for an awesome Envision Speaker Series kick-off!


Call 901-521-8117 to reserve your spot today.


Members are free. Non-members pay $20 - includes wine, appetizers and art by Stephanie King!

Melissa McFerrin was named the University of Memphis women's basketball head coach on April 19th, 2008. Her first season at Memphis saw a significant improvement in team wins and an attendance jump of over 80 percent. McFerrin, the 2008 Patriot League Coach of the Year, spent four seasons at American University in Washington D.C. Her 2007 American team advanced to the Patriot League championship game and her 2008 squad won the school's first-ever Patriot League regular season championship.

Coach McFerrin will be coming to Envision to kick-off our speaker series and talk about the importance of setting goals, challenging yourself and always trying to become the very best you can possible be...all of the things Envision promotes!

Please visit www.envisionmemphis.com to stay updated on new events, to learn more about this unique concept and how you can better your own life.

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If you have not already signed up for our email newsletter, you may want to go to envisionmemphis.com/main.html and do it now. Next week we are sending out a newsletter with some exciting new stuff, including new classes and our "Back on the Bandwagon" specials!!

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Free Pilates Class @ Envision

Free Pilates Class @ Envision

Tuesday, July 14 - 11:30am to 12:30pm

Try our Pilates class brought to you by the trainers at Push Pilates. Take the perfect lunch break and see everything we have to offer. Light lunch snacks will be provided.

You have nothing to lose and everything to gain!

Please call 521-8117 or email info@envisionmemphis.com to reserve your space, as class size is limited.

Class Schedule, Open Gym Times

Thank you to everyone that attended our open house on Monday! We had a great turnout! Don't forget to check out the schedule on the website: http://envisionmemphis.com/services.html
Stop by this evening at 6:30pm for Yoga with Amsa. Cost is $15 for one class and parking is free in the garage on 2nd Street between Monroe and Madison.

Push Pilates at the Envision Experience

Push Pilates' services are now being offered downtown at the Envision Experience.

Push Pilates is dedicated to helping people discover health and happiness in their lives. A combination of professional and innovative teaching in an elegant environment makes Push Pilates an excellent choice to rejuvenate both mind and body. Often people tell us that they want to get stronger to do Pilates or more flexible to do yoga. We cultivate the idea that we are all students and continue to learn everyday. We welcome the opportunity to work with all body types, levels and ages.

Val Russell is a certified Pilates and Yoga instructor. She began her Pilates training in 1998 at The Ellie Herman Studios in San Francisco, CA. She furthered her education in rehab Pilates with Lizz Roman. And has studied at the Pilates Center in Boulder. She is a certified trainer with the Pilates Method Alliance and Push Pilates is affiliated with the Pilates Method Alliance. Val's yoga training is through OM Yoga in New York with Cindi Lee and Midtown Yoga in Memphis with Sarla Nichols. Val has also studied with Hart Lazar, Richard Freeman and Jennifer Brilliant.

Val opened Push Pilates in 2002 where she began training out of a spare bedroom. And has grown the studio into a 3300 square foot house on Union Avenue. The programming has expanded to include yoga, massage, workshops, continuing education, Teacher Training, and a clothing line, PUSH wear.

Val combines an evolved Pilates repertoire with physical therapy methods using tools such as the Feldenchreist foam roller, small balls, physio-balls, flex bands, magic circles and now YOGA.
Val continually strives to integrate her fine art background and love of bodywork by offering current, fresh and creative bodywork and movement to the Memphis community.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Memphis ranks low on fittest cities list
Memphis Business Journal

Memphis has ranked 37th on a list of America’s 50 fittest cities by the American College of Sports Medicine.

The American Fitness Index is a snapshot look at the state of health and fitness in America’s 50 most populous metros. The study was released during the annual ACSM convention in Seattle last week. The ranking is a composite of preventive health behaviors, levels of chronic disease conditions, health care access, community resources and public policies that support physical activity.

Memphis scored an aggregated 38.5 in these categories. Washington, D.C., the top-ranking city, scored a 74.4. Others in the top five were Minneapolis-St. Paul, Denver, Boston and San Francisco.

Memphis ranked 41st on personal health indicators related to health behaviors, chronic health problems and health care. The city ranked 34th on community/environmental indicators related to the environment, recreational facilities, park-related expenditures, physical education requirements and primary health care providers.

Nashville ranked 26 overall. No cities in Arkansas or Mississippi made the list.

You must drink the "pot likker"...

Today, I ate at The Little Tea Shop on Monroe Avenue. This is the first time I have ever been, but I will definitely be back. I had the turnip greens with onions and tomatoes. Suhair, the owner, insisted I drink the pot likker, which I had never heard of before today. "Pot Likker" is the delicious juice that comes from greens as they are cooked. Well, I drank it as she watched and it was, as she said, DELICIOUS, not to mention healthy! On top of it all, the restaurant does use pork to cook their greens and they are still delicious!