Dear bari Newport Beach: it’s time to party. If you’ve never been to a bari party before, you’re in for a whole new level of fun. Get ready to fully understand our #wesweatweparty motto and get a whole lot closer to your fellow Tribers. This one’s cocktail attire, so we’re going to veto any mid-party sweat sessions (for now) — but come ready to drink, laugh and tap into our incredible community of passionate, like-minded, professionally awesome people. Oh, and to #fallinlovewithatramp.

Happy Halloweek, Tribe!

We can’t wait to channel our inner BariKIDS and celebrate with you!

Joining us for class on Halloween? Here’s how we’ll be tricking and treating at Bari:

• Playing dress up: You didn’t think we’d pass up an excuse to play dress up while working out, did you? Our trainers will be sweating in their Halloween’s finest - and we hope you will, too!
• Double tallies if you wear a costume to class: Halloween falls on the very last day of our #BariDDICTED Sweat Challenge! If you take class in costume, you’ll earn double sweat tallies!
• Trick or treat!: Swing by with your trick or treaters — we promise we won’t be handing out any of the healthy candy below.

Photos via Bari Studio

Happy Halloweek, Tribe!

We can’t wait to channel our inner BariKIDS and celebrate with you!

Joining us for class on Halloween? Here’s how we’ll be tricking and treating at Bari:

• Playing dress up: You didn’t think we’d pass up an excuse to play dress up while working out, did you? Our trainers will be sweating in their Halloween’s finest - and we hope you will, too!
• Double tallies if you wear a costume to class: Halloween falls on the very last day of our #BariDDICTED Sweat Challenge! If you take class in costume, you’ll earn double sweat tallies!
• Trick or treat!: Swing by with your trick or treaters — we promise we won’t be handing out any of the healthy candy below.

Photos via Bari Studio

Our PEELERS are heading into week three of our six-week PEEL to summer challenge. This week, we’re taking on a seven-day real food challenge! We’ve heard from a few of our non-PEELers that you’d like to join in on the challenge, too. The more the merrier, Tribe.

For the next seven days, we are committed to experiencing an entirely ‘real foods’ diet, and wholly understanding the difference between ‘real’ and processed foods. Here’s our guideline of what fits the bill for real food, as well as what doesn’t.

What you can eat:

1. Whole foods that are more a product of nature than a product of industry

2. Lots of fruits and vegetables (we recommend that you shop for these at your local farmers’ market)

3. Dairy products like milk, unsweetened yogurt, eggs, and cheese

4. 100% whole-wheat and whole-grains (find a local bakery for approved sandwich bread or find a store-bought bread with fewer than five ingredients and no sugar)

5. Seafood (wild caught is the optimal choice over farm-raised)

6. Only locally raised meats such as pork, beef, and chicken (no more than once per day)

7. Beverages limited to water, milk, fresh-pressed juices, coffee & tea, and, wine and beer (no more than 4 servings throughout the week)

8. Snacks like dried fruit, seeds, nuts and freshly popped popcorn

9. All natural sweeteners including honey, 100% maple syrup, and fruit juice concentrates are acceptable in moderation

What you cannot eat:

1. No refined grains such as white flour or white rice (items containing wheat must say WHOLE wheat, not just “wheat”)

2. No refined sweeteners such as sugar, any form of corn syrup, agave nectar, cane juice, or the artificial stuff like Splenda3. Nothing out of a box, can, bag, bottle or package that has more than 5 ingredients listed on the label

4. No deep fried foods

5. No “fast foods”

A sample day of eating might look like:

Breakfast: Oatmeal topped with fresh berries, chia seeds and almond butter - or - Two eggs scrambled or pan-fried with a slice of millet bread topped with ¼ avocado, mashed

Snack: Green juice

Lunch: Salad with beans, lots of raw/grilled vegetables, hard-boiled egg, seeds and olive oil and balsamic - or - BariBALANCER

Snack: Hummus and carrot sticks/celery - or - an apple with almond butter

Dinner: Grilled salmon with vegetables and a serving of whole grains; or sushi with brown rice and edamame

Dessert: Popcorn (air-popped) topped with sea salt and nutritional yeast; or a 4-6 oz. glass of wine (we know which option you’re choosing…)

Eat real, Tribe! Keep us posted.

For every extra slice of pizza and extra bowl of pasta we had this winter

For every time we slept in because it was snowing outside… and we “couldn’t find” our snowboots

For that one time (okay, twice) we spiked your coffee with rum… because it was cold outside

For every chunky sweater that allowed us to neglect our abs

For each workout we skipped because it felt like spring was never coming

For every day we said, “tomorrow I’ll get serious”

Let’s PEEL.

6 Weeks.

To a stronger body

To elevating our minds and seizing the challenge

To lifting our spirits… and our butts

To lunging low and bouncing high

To cranking the volume up higher

To sweating with a goal in mind

To getting to know your body better than ever before

To having the support of your PEEL partners-in-crime

To loving the skin you’re in

To ditching your shirt on Memorial Day weekend

To peeling away the winter blues

… and living to brag tell about it.

LET’S GO, PEELERS!

New York winters have their way of dragging out while simultaneously passing you by. We think the pattern goes something like: it’s cold, Halloween Hurricane Sandy, it’s cold, Thanksgiving, it’s snowing, Christmas, it’s snowing but let’s open two studios anyway, why is it snowing in March? And then, out of nowhere, it’s spring.

But, whether we were mentally prepared for it or not, spring is here. And we all know that spring really just translates to almost-summer, which means we better start mentally and physically preparing ourselves now.

Enter: BariPEEL.

What it is:

1. A 6-week workout challenge that leads up to Memorial Day Weekend
2. A pre-emptive strike against the anxiety attack you will have the weekend before Memorial Day Weekend if you don’t start shedding those winter layers now

(Curious about last year’s PEEL adventure? Check out our first ever PEEL announcement here!)

The PEEL Challenge:

• First two weeks: 4 workouts per week
• Second two weeks: 5 workouts per week
• Last two weeks: 6 workouts per week
• Complete Bari’s 5 Day Detox… twice! (Bari Food Society is preparing all detox meals for pick-up at Bari!)
• Get an UP band (optional, but highly recommended) to track and achieve daily movement goals outside of the classroom.
• Healthy, unprocessed eating for the full six weeks (don’t worry, we’ll give you a cheat sheet)
• More sweat than you knew your body could produce, helped along by outdoor workouts!
• No complaining. It’s go time every single day.

How it works:

• We’ll kick BariPEEL off with Bari’s 5 Day Detox on April 15th, and it will wrap on May 25th.
• The 6-week program is designed to be completed in full; this is the only way we can guarantee you results. We know committing to being healthy for six weeks isn’t easy; but it is completely necessary if you want to see changes in your body.
• That said, we know that life exists outside of Bari. Because of this, if you can’t commit to all six weekend events, you can opt-out of the ones that don’t work for you.
• BariPEEL Participation cost: $60; all events (detox, ordering food, master classes, nutrition sessions and cooking lesson) are priced a la carte

What you get:

1. Results. If you can give us your commitment and dedication for six weeks, we give you our word that we can deliver results.
2. Unparalleled motivation from your fellow PEEL participants; you will quickly become each other’s support systems, accountability, inspiration, sweat partners in crime and new best friends
3. Virtual communication with and support from your PEEL team via the UP band; this has been known to foster a little friendly competition, too!
4. Weekly workout prescriptions
5. We’ll start and end PEEL with the 5 Day Detox, and you’ll have the exclusive opportunity to order your detox meals from Bari Food Society
6. 90-minute master classes
7. Group nutritional counseling
8. Healthy grilling lesson with Bari Food Society’s chef
9. Weigh in and measurements every two weeks to track progress
10. When all is said and done, a #BariBODY

Ready to PEEL? Email us at info@thebaristudio.com to get the full price list and sign up!

New York winters have their way of dragging out while simultaneously passing you by. We think the pattern goes something like: it’s cold, Halloween Hurricane Sandy, it’s cold, Thanksgiving, it’s snowing, Christmas, it’s snowing but let’s open two studios anyway, why is it snowing in March? And then, out of nowhere, it’s spring.

But, whether we were mentally prepared for it or not, spring is here. And we all know that spring really just translates to almost-summer, which means we better start mentally and physically preparing ourselves now.

Enter: BariPEEL.

What it is:

1. A 6-week workout challenge that leads up to Memorial Day Weekend
2. A pre-emptive strike against the anxiety attack you will have the weekend before Memorial Day Weekend if you don’t start shedding those winter layers now

(Curious about last year’s PEEL adventure? Check out our first ever PEEL announcement here!)

The PEEL Challenge:

• First two weeks: 4 workouts per week
• Second two weeks: 5 workouts per week
• Last two weeks: 6 workouts per week
• Complete Bari’s 5 Day Detox… twice! (Bari Food Society is preparing all detox meals for pick-up at Bari!)
• Get an UP band (optional, but highly recommended) to track and achieve daily movement goals outside of the classroom.
• Healthy, unprocessed eating for the full six weeks (don’t worry, we’ll give you a cheat sheet)
• More sweat than you knew your body could produce, helped along by outdoor workouts!
• No complaining. It’s go time every single day.

How it works:

• We’ll kick BariPEEL off with Bari’s 5 Day Detox on April 15th, and it will wrap on May 25th.
• The 6-week program is designed to be completed in full; this is the only way we can guarantee you results. We know committing to being healthy for six weeks isn’t easy; but it is completely necessary if you want to see changes in your body.
• That said, we know that life exists outside of Bari. Because of this, if you can’t commit to all six weekend events, you can opt-out of the ones that don’t work for you.
• BariPEEL Participation cost: $60; all events (detox, ordering food, master classes, nutrition sessions and cooking lesson) are priced a la carte

What you get:

1. Results. If you can give us your commitment and dedication for six weeks, we give you our word that we can deliver results.
2. Unparalleled motivation from your fellow PEEL participants; you will quickly become each other’s support systems, accountability, inspiration, sweat partners in crime and new best friends
3. Virtual communication with and support from your PEEL team via the UP band; this has been known to foster a little friendly competition, too!
4. Weekly workout prescriptions
5. We’ll start and end PEEL with the 5 Day Detox, and you’ll have the exclusive opportunity to order your detox meals from Bari Food Society
6. 90-minute master classes
7. Group nutritional counseling
8. Healthy grilling lesson with Bari Food Society’s chef
9. Weigh in and measurements every two weeks to track progress
10. When all is said and done, a #BariBODY

Ready to PEEL? Email us at info@thebaristudio.com to get the full price list and sign up!

Averaging 20 classes per teammate, Team #FBOfficialWithBari is our Bari March Madness winner! Congratulations, Dawn, Jessica K., Meral, Jessica P., Erica, Sam, Gabriella, Sarah L. and Lauren A.! Keep your eyes peeled for an email about your super awesome secret prize.

To the rest of the amazing teams, #WeBariHarderThanYouParty, #SkimmersAreMyBitch and #MyBariBringsAllTheBoysToTheYard, you guys gave Team #FBOfficialWithBari a run for their money secret prize. Kudos to you all for making March extra sweaty. Let’s keep it the momentum going in April! (Cough, cough, BariPEEL!)

To all participants, mark your calendars for a celebratory BariBBQ in your honor. You’ll be receiving an invite this week, but for now, save the date and get excited!

#BariddictedBBQ
Saturday, April 13th
2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Full details to follow

We are so proud to call you uber-sweaty people our Tribe.