and health with time; fast-forward to 2007 when Leon introduced Olvera to Donna Karan’s Urban Zen institute, where she started working with Rodney Yee doing programming.
“That’s when I really had to get my whole workout on. I mean, my whole lifestyle had to change. I had to learn how to relax,” Leon says. “I was fit, I could run, I could do everything I could do. And I looked great, but at the same time my body was shutting down.” “As I got older, I started realizing there was more to big muscles and lean abs: to be strong internally and mentally as well,” Leon says.The joint workout lifts the heart rate high with a more traditional circuit training session, followed immediately by the second half of the workout with Olvera, focused on relaxing the nervous system through yoga, restorative poses and meditative movement.
Olvera says she noticed a change during the pandemic: suddenly the workouts New Yorkers were accustomed to, the bootcamps and the go-go-go training people favored, no longer left them feeling satisfied.