What if getting stronger didn’t mean sacrificing mobility?
What if your strength training could help you move better, feel more connected to your body, and build the kind of strength that actually supports the way you want to live?
Welcome to Strength Reimagined.
This is an 10-week, twice-weekly progressive training program that brings together strength, mobility and movement using one incredibly versatile tool: the steel mace.
The steel mace asks your body to work differently.
Because the weight is offset, your body has to stabilize, coordinate and respond. We’ll work through multiple planes and ranges of motion, training not only the big muscles you typically associate with strength, but also the smaller stabilizing muscles that help support your joints, posture, balance and everyday movement.
You’ll build full-body strength, mobility, grip strength, coordination, stability and body awareness—all within the same practice.
And then we flow.
Drawing from Steel Mace Vinyasa™, we’ll weave strength and mobility together into creative movement patterns that challenge your brain as much as your body. You’ll learn how to move the mace with greater control, confidence and ease while discovering new possibilities in your own body.
OVER 10 WEEKS, WE’LL EXPLORE:
Full-body functional strength
Shoulder, hip and spinal mobility
Grip and forearm strength
Core strength and rotational stability
Coordination, balance and proprioception
Smaller stabilizing muscles that are often missed in traditional strength training
Multi-planar movement and healthy ranges of motion
Steel mace fundamentals, transitions and flows
Breath, focus and the mind-body connection
Progressive strength that meets you where you are
You do not need to already be strong.
You do not need experience with a steel mace.
And you definitely do not need to be a yogi.
You simply need to be willing to learn, move and discover what your body is capable of.
This program is intentionally limited to 10 people so I can coach you closely, help you understand the movements and offer modifications and progressions for your individual body.
Because strength isn’t supposed to look one particular way.
Strong can be mobile.
Strong can be fluid.
Strong can be playful.
Strong can meet you exactly where you are.
It’s time to rethink what strength training can feel like.
This is Strength Reimagined.
Tuesdays + Thursdays | 7:30–8:30 AM
10 weeks | 20 sessions
Limited to 10 participants
Investment: $580 + HST
About your Instructor
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Shirlee Williams is a Strength & Mobility Coach, 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher, Certified Steel Mace Vinyasa™ Coach, Breathwork Facilitator, Life Coach and Menopause Coaching Specialist with more than 25 years of experience teaching movement and helping people feel at home in their bodies.
Her work has always lived at the intersection of strength, mobility, nervous system regulation and mindful movement.
After decades of teaching yoga, Shirlee discovered the steel mace and it completely changed the way she thought about strength training. She loved how this ancient tool could build strength while simultaneously asking the body to move, stabilize, coordinate and explore greater ranges of motion.
It felt like the missing link between the mobility and body awareness she had cultivated through yoga and the strength she knew was increasingly important as we age.
Today, Shirlee blends her extensive background in yoga and embodied movement with strength and mobility training to create practices that are intelligent, challenging, playful and accessible to real bodies.
Her philosophy is simple: strength training doesn’t have to make us rigid, and mobility doesn’t have to mean simply stretching.
We can be strong and mobile. Powerful and fluid. Stable and adaptable.
And perhaps most importantly, we can keep learning new ways to move at every age.
Strength Reimagined is the evolution of everything Shirlee has spent more than two decades teaching—and everything she now believes is possible when we stop separating strength from movement.
