Annie Forest Coaching and Studios

Fantastic experience: Working with Annie over the last 7 years has been an integral part of my wellness, strength and calming. As an executive, business owner and a human with an invisible disability Annie’s approach is dynamic in meeting me where I’m at for the day; whether I’m feeling strong, needing tender care, she keeps each session customized to my needs. Having an invisible disability there are times when my body does not function the way it can at others and Annie never ceases to impress me with the range of neuro-scientific information she can use to get my body to a better place.

Fantastic experience: Very knowledgable. Very friendly. Very helpful.

Fantastic experience: I worked with Amanda in an eight-week class and in a 90-minute session to improve my breathing. Amanda is an Oxygen Advantage-certified trainer. I have severe asthma and wanted to learn more about how to improve my breathing capacity. In the private studio session, she did a lot of different, slightly unusual, tests of my breathing, balance, and coordination. In the end, she provided a list of very specific and helpful exercises for me to practice. The class took a lot of these ideas and expanded on them to give me a better understanding of how breathing practice works and how it can further help me. Amanda's help was worth every penny. I feel like I'm improving daily in avoiding lots of asthma medications and treatments. I highly recommend the drive to Madison to see her, and I highly recommend the online class.

Fantastic experience: As an "upper'"middle-aged woman who has never found a friend in exercise (or healthy living, for the most part), I have been under-impressed with most previous trainers or other exercise directives. I got them, I understood how they helped many, but I frequently would push---or get pushed---too far. That feeling that I'm about to die and can't move for two days due to post-workout pain lingered and always seemed too easy to abandon. While I was previously motivated by wanting to lose weight, or have a 'better' body, I'm now in it to preserve my mobility, prevent falls, and feel more confident in moving about in the world. I want the strength to climb waterfalls and carry my own luggage through a medieval castle. Those are my goals. At Forest Coaching I have felt heard and have learned an incredible amount about the wiring of strength and movement, and how to correct weaknesses in my muscles in the most interesting of ways. I am pushed just the right amount to notice steady progression in my strength and coordination, and gentle tips for other aspects of health are worked into the training sessions. I have taken a few of the extra online classes and they are also very informative. This is definitely a different kind of place, and I can't recommend it enough!

Fantastic experience: Annie and her team are true trailblazers. They focus on clients as whole people and with a counterintuitive approach, they help the humans they’re entrusted with be kinder to their bodies, minds, hearts, eyes, fascia, all of it. If you want to be more balanced and grow older finding yourself healthier than you were in your 20s, this is your tribe.