One of our first engagements was a contract with a private college where we hired and mentored a team of instructors. It was inspiring to give opportunities to our friends. Eventually, we launched in Hunts Point, The South Bronx where collective inspiration goals were accomplished. Supporters would trek from Harlem by subway, car-pool, or take a bus to meet for fitness sessions and workshops. October 2019, we returned to Harlem, occupying co-working space inside The National Black Theater. We are seeking a location for our expanded business model. We remain connected with our core group through virtual fitness training sessions.
Eye Cycle Lifestyle Digital, will feature our friends and supporters who have realized their lifestyle transformations. We welcome back our friends and invite new ones. Our engagements will continue to be community-focused however inspired globally with exciting innovation, technology, more workshops, and education. During this time, we’ve created new, fun, and challenging fitness formats. We also revamped chair fitness specifically for entrepreneurs and seniors as well as a fun and intimate Love My Belly which is self-activated focusing on our neglected and misused mid-section. It brings self-awareness, mindfulness to consumption, mobility, and posture improvements.
There is a need for trustworthy global and digital wellness expansion for similar startups which will allow a competitive edge and voice for our required services. Our supporters have realized their goals as they have said so, they express excitement and are looking for our digital launch. We have operated under-funded and consider ourselves the little engine that could following cultivating successful methodologies and building community. That was before COVID 19. Now, we are requesting exposure to our mission on a wider scale so that we can continue to provide our services. We operated scrappy and creative. We have a proven concept and ready for our next venture into mobile and streaming offerings. We can continue to touch lives through technology and relevancy. Our intent is to replace our bikes and donate our old ones to a high-school where we will provide free streaming classes. These classes could inspire fitness curricula and entrepreneurial spirit.
Small businesses are the foundation of the community and must have support in order to survive our new world. As far as we are aware, there hasn’t been sufficient relief for small businesses, particularly in Harlem. Harlem, New York is globally recognizable for its contributions to art, entertainment, innovation, creativity in America’s footprint. The community has conducted and supported wellness. The “Bath House” formerly located on 135th cultivated a myriad of fitness that included, swimming, basketball, African dancing, drummers, instructors, and community participants and loved ones. Many considered the day-long sessions of which often featured International talent from various countries of Africa. Congolese Dance was one of the most popular and familiar to African Americans. You could find us there, sharing information, networking, leading, and mentoring each other. Basically supporting our healthy lifestyle. These wellness rituals where an underlying, unpublished fitness experience celebrated and supported by the community. Similar to church service, we would go beyond 3 hours a session. These things were happening throughout Harlem beyond 145th through to the Oberia Dempsey Center on West 127th Street. Community wellness and fitness included chess, football, ice-skating, fencing, line dancing, salsa, swimming, and more. Although most are non-profit or big box brands, there is an urgency for innovation to be competitive and keep the pace for the demand especially with the expansion of development. We created Eye Cycle due to scarce access to small groups and boutique training experiences. Direct and small gatherings have allowed focused, targeted, and streamlined successful outcomes. We are ready to make the leap into innovation and see success when the baton is passed. All we require is an opportunity and access to funding. Wellness is a lifestyle we’ve lived for a while. Digital access can inspire growth to touch more lives through achievable franchised possibilities.
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Coach Tineta Newton is a Professional, Wellness Practitioner and the Visionary of Eye Cycle Lifestyle Digital
Before September 11, 2001, Tineta was a Search Consultant for progressive mobile, technology, and venture capital start-ups. She reinvented herself by creating a diversity indoor cycling methodology. She discovered her talent was to instruct through movement to help people feel better. She launched her first brick-and-mortar in The South Bronx, currently in Harlem, New York, and now transforming into streaming, eCommerce, and digital products and services. She has been a Volunteer as a Shape Up NYC Fitness Instructor teaching at Harlem Hospital.
