By Carrie Nolan-Robson, Northside North Shore Chamber of Commerce Executive Director

As we enter the New Year, many of us are setting intentions to create lasting change — whether it is for our health, career, relationships, or personal growth. Achieving balance and true well-being often require a holistic approach that nurtures the mind, body, and spirit. By combining personal training, sound-based practices, and life coaching, you can embark on a transformative journey that not only enhances your physical fitness but also cultivates mental clarity, emotional resilience, and a deeper connection to your true self.

Personal training offers numerous benefits, especially when it is personalized to your unique needs and goals. Whether you want to build strength, lose weight, or recover from an injury, working with a professional trainer ensures that your fitness plan is aligned with your desired outcomes. Working with a personal trainer allows for customized workouts based on health needs/ concerns, goals, and fitness levels. This ensures a safe and effective plan, having you work at your own pace, while also challenging your body to grow stronger and more resilient. Accountability keeps you on track and motivated, which can be a large part of why fitness plans can fail when working on your own. Avoiding injury is another factor. With a personal trainer, you are taught proper form in executing exercises and how to use equipment correctly, limiting accidents and harm. Finally, variety in exercises helps to avoid plateaus, maximizes a whole body workout, and breaks up the mundane routine to keep you motivated.

Union Fitness is one of our Chamber members who work with individuals in this realm. They are located in Nova Place and offer many different expert-led classes in strength conditioning, yoga, cardio, as well as recovery options of deep tissue massage therapy and mobility training.

While personal training focuses on physical fitness, Sound Body Initiative integrates sound and music to enhance your overall well-being. This innovative, alternative approach to wellness uses the therapeutic benefits of sound to bring balance and healing to both your mind and body.

The use of frequency meditation is one of the modalities used in this approach. By using specific sound frequencies, frequency meditation promotes deep relaxation, reduces stress, and enhances mental clarity. Another healing form is the use of mobile vibroacoustic therapy beds.

These beds used in conjunction with personal training can enhance recovery after workouts, alleviate pain, and heal the body faster. Sound waves and vibrations are used to promote relaxation, reduce muscle tension, and accelerate recovery. Music and dance can also be tools to healing. Through music and dance, you can unlock emotional healing, release stress, and increase joy.

These practices help you build resilience, improve your mood, and create a sense of unity—both with yourself and with others. Additional workshops and retreats are offered by Jessica Rosario, founder and practitioner.

“Treating music as a gift as well as a tool for expansion, we unlock powerful healing modalities found in the frequencies of rhythm and sound,” Rosario said.

Taking a holistic approach to wellness includes life coaching to help you align your mindset with your personal and professional goals. Life coaching focuses on your overall development, helping you break through obstacles, clarify your values, and create actionable plans to live a more fulfilled life.

Life Force Wellness offers life coaching and workplace wellness that can complement your personal training and sound-based practices to provide a well-rounded approach to new energy. Building mental resilience, reducing stress, enhancing a work-life balance, clarifying your vision, and living in alignment with your true self are all topics Megan Wollerton, owner of Life Force Wellness, covers with her clients.

Building mental strength to overcome obstacles and remain focused boosts confidence, manages stress, and improves one’s mindset. A balanced lifestyle that prioritizes both personal and professional fulfillment allows for strategies to manage time, build meaningful relationships, and align your daily actions with your long-term vision.

Life coaching helps you live a more harmonious life. Setting clear, meaningful goals across all facets of your life creates a strong foundation for success. The final benefit to life coaching is identifying your true passions and desires that help to bring joy, purpose, and fulfillment to your life.

As you embark on your wellness journey in 2025, remember that achieving lasting well-being is about more than just physical fitness. It is about creating balance in every area of your life — mind, body, and spirit. Personal training, combined with sound-based practices and life coaching, offers you a comprehensive approach to wellness that nurtures not just your body but your entire being.

With the right support, you can set ambitious goals, nurture meaningful relationships, raise families, and thrive in your career—while maintaining a strong, resilient mind and body. You will reduce the stress and anxiety that hold you back, sleep more deeply, eat mindfully, and work productively. Through life coaching, personal training, and the healing power of sound, you can discover the joy and fulfillment that come from living in alignment with your true self.

By embracing this holistic approach, you will not only feel physically stronger but also more emotionally resilient and mentally clear. This New Year, make it your intention to create lasting, transformative change in all aspects of your life.

Informational material for the article was provided by: Toria Crispin of Union Fitness, Jessica Rosario of Sound Body Initiative, and Megan Wollerton of Life Force Wellness from each Chamber member’s marketing materials.