Reimagine Your Relationship with Exercise
Join the Attuned Exercise movement and explore a more compassionate, embodied approach to exercise; one that centres attunement, not control.
If exercise has ever felt like a fight, with your body, with willpower, and with impossible standards, you’re not alone.
It’s not your fault. The stories we’ve been handed about fitness and worth don’t nurture us; they disconnect us. They teach us to treat our bodies like projects to fix, rather than a life-long connection to build.
Attuned Exercise is about rewriting that story.
It’s about discovering what movement can be when it’s not a project, a punishment, or a performance, but a way of coming home to yourself.
Here, exercise becomes less about pushing through and more about tuning in. Less about chasing results and more about building trust, curiosity, and connection with your body.
This is the heart of my book upcoming Attuned Exercise and the community of like-minded movers growing around it: a gentler, more sustainable relationship with movement, one that supports not just your fitness, but your whole self.
November 20th 2025 Attuned Exercise will be available for purchase! The Kindle edition is available for pre-order here
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I’m Martha 👋
I’m a researcher, movement guide, and author writing a book about reimagining exercise as a relationship not a performance. I help people reconnect with movement through self-trust, curiosity, and care.
Whether you’re just beginning or returning to this work, you’re welcome here.
“Martha helped me start healing from decades of diet culture. I got rid of my scale and the toxic thoughts that came with it. She truly listens, supports you without judgment, and creates space for real change. I thought I’d slip back into dieting... but never again. I fully trust and recommend her.”
— PREVIOUS CLIENT
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For most of us, exercise has been framed as a means to an end. Something we do to the body in order to change it. Make it smaller, stronger, more acceptable or out of fears for health, aging, and fragility. We learn to view our body as something we must constantly optimize or control and almost never something to enjoy, inhabit, and just be
Your Body is Not a Project
If you’ve ever felt like your motivation to exercise disappears the moment life gets full, you’re not alone. Most of us have been taught to rely on short-term or external motivation, like fitness challenges, a summer deadline, or a burst of guilt after a “bad” weekend. These sources might get us moving for a little while, but they rarely last (and almost always fail to deliver what they promise.) To build a relationship with movement that’s actually sustainable, we need to shift the source of our motivation.
Motivation that Lasts
The general discourse around exercise is that if we just had more willpower, we’d exercise more. From the outside it looks simple, yet for so many of us, it’s not. Our relationships with our bodies and in turn with exercise and diet have been fraught and tense. Embodiment research can help shed some light on what some of these dynamics are and how we can chose to start to foster a relationship with exercise that feels supportive and aligned rather than punishing and controlling our bodies.