What Does Holistic Personal Training Really Mean?

In most gyms, personal training is all about output. Calories burned. Reps counted. Muscles shaped. But what if strength wasn’t just something you built… What if it was something you became? That’s the difference with holistic personal training.

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More Than Muscle. It’s Embodiment.

Holistic personal training recognizes that strength isn’t just physical. It’s all things: emotional, mental, energetic, spiritual. It’s not about how hard you push. It’s about how well you align—internally and externally—so your effort turns into energy you can actually use. While traditional personal training often over-emphasizes aesthetics and performance, holistic training asks deeper questions:

• Is your spine actually supporting your power—or just performing for it?

• Are your hips free to move—or locked up from unconscious bracing?

• Is your breath helping you lift—or silently shutting down your core?

Holistic personal training isn’t just bodywork—it’s embodiment work.

Strength From the Inside Out

At its core, holistic personal training merges:

• Biomechanical Activation – Teaching your joints, fascia, and stabilizers to fire intelligently so strength comes from integration, not force.

• Yogic Body Locks (Bandhas) – Subtle but powerful energetic activations that stabilize your core, lift energy through the body, and protect your nervous system from burnout.

• Breath + Awareness – Breath not just as fuel, but as a guide for pacing, core activation, and emotional regulation.

• Individual Alignment – Exercises are modified to match your actual structure, not someone else’s blueprint. You’ll build strength where it helps, not where it hides dysfunction.

By using yogic bandhas—like muladhara (pelvic floor), uddiyana (lower core lift), jalandhara (neck lock), pada (foot arch), and hasta (hand grip)—we strengthen from the foundation upward. This means every rep does more than sculpt—it aligns your energy, repairs dysfunctional patterns, and makes your body feel like it finally belongs to you again.

Try It Yourself: Muladhara Bandha in Squats

Want to feel how different holistic strength feels? Here’s a quick practice to integrate Muladhara Bandha—the yogic pelvic floor lock—into a basic squat.

Why It Matters:

Most people dump into their hips and lower back when they squat. This leads to strain, especially if your pelvic floor is weak or disconnected. Activating Muladhara Bandha helps lift the base of your core, stabilize your spine, and redistribute effort into the right muscles.

Practice: Bandha-Infused Bodyweight Squat

1. Stand with feet hip-width apart. Root evenly into the four corners of your feet.

2. Engage Muladhara Bandha: Imagine drawing your sit bones toward each other and lifting the pelvic floor up and in—like stopping a stream of urine. Subtle. Gentle. Just enough to feel “lifted.”

3. Inhale: Soften the belly and prepare.

4. Exhale: Squat slowly down, maintaining the pelvic floor lift. Go only as low as you can without losing that engagement.

5. Inhale: Rise up with control, still lifted.

6. Repeat for 6–10 reps. Focus on quality, not depth.

What You Might Notice:

• Less pressure in your lower back

• More stability through your heels

• Glutes, hamstrings, and inner thighs engaging more evenly

• A surprising sense of power from within—not just brute strength

This is what happens when strength becomes integrated, not just applied.

In this video, Brittany guides you how to activate the yogic foot lock and pelvic lock into your squats.

Final Thought

Holistic personal training doesn’t ignore intensity. It refines it. You’ll still get stronger. You’ll still hit your goals. But you’ll do it in a way that honors your structure, protects your energy, and leaves you feeling more you—not less. Because true strength isn’t just about what you lift. It’s about how deeply you’re rooted when you rise.