Aware Relaxed Connected
After more than 2 decades exploring both eastern (Chinese internal and Daoist arts) and western (stretching, rehab, calisthenics, etc) methods of self cultivation, I started to reduce my body of knowledge to something more essential at its heart, and explorative in its application. I stopped focusing on the techniques and started focusing on which qualities the techniques were igniting in me and my students, how those qualities might be useful in other areas of life, and how they could be pragmatically applied. I broadly break my approach into 4 main categories: physical cultivation (all things to do with bodily development and care), internal cultivation (bringing the process of opening and releasing into the internal bodily landscapes), cultivation of the mind (including development of the imaginal spaces), and finally exploring the context within which all this development takes place: non-duality. Join me as I dive into the many discoveries I have made along the way, as well as interviewing many of the super interesting people I have met in my travels and through various practice circles.
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Monday Mar 10, 2025
Monday Mar 10, 2025
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In this episode, I interview my good friend Joe Fairleigh. Joe is one of those guys who is both masterful at his arts, and super humble and down to earth. He has been a cornerstone for many other people I know, helping them find stability and meaning in their lives. I'm super stoked to have Joe on as my first guest, and this episode was so much fun to record. We got into topics of martial arts, meditation and more, but mostly talked about how diving into any skillset comes with the big risk of becoming crazy and evangelical about it.
If you'd like to connect with Joe, you can find him over on his website right here:
https://www.joefairleigh.com/
Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
In this episode I take a bit of a deep dive into the topic of orientation and motivation. Why do we train what we train, what do we believe we are going to get from it? Often people will use terms like "to get well/healthy/fit" but these terms mean such different things to different people that it's worth clarifying for yourself and understanding the lens you're looking through.
This is all tied together with a short exploration of the unconscious perfectionists that tends to disconnect us from natures perfection by looking for perfection where it can't exist: within the relative world.
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Wednesday Feb 05, 2025
Wednesday Feb 05, 2025
In this inaugural episode of the podcast, I introduce the tone of my approach to self cultivation and the basic pillars that make up my current curriculum:
Physical Cultivation
Internal Cultivation
Cultivation of the Mind
Cultivation of Relationship to Reality as a whole
I also take a quick tour of my history to see the main influences on this approach and hopefully set the context for everything to come in the podcast.