CONTACT:

Alex Iglecia
The Epic Workout
781-405-1248
alex at epicworkout.com
www.epicworkout.com

For information about Symetrie, contact Equinox, Palo Alto

Equinox Fitness features The Epic Workout as part of Symetrie

Palo Alto, CA, 10-8-2009 - The Epic Workout will be a featured class during Equinox Fitness’ six-week Symetrie beginning October 16th, 2010.

The Epic Workout features class a high standard of progressive exercise based on function and natural movements, mindfulness, breath, and conscious relaxation. Epic has been called Yogic Warrior Conditioning, is accessible by people all fitness levels, and offers profound results and experiences. Epic’s functional movements and mindful strength & conditioning makes a big impact in athletics and life skills.

The Epic Workout’s founder, Alex Iglecia, is dedicated to helping people enjoy life, inside and outside. His work spans martial arts, self defense, personal training and program design. Alex studied at Cornell University and later received a MA in Conscious Evolution, and created pioneering body-mind research focusing on how mental and emotional changes occur during physically-focused body practices.

Symetrie is created and led by Kirsten Johnson-Group Exercise Manager, Jayme Boyle-Teacher-Yogi Extraordinaire, and Clyde Wilson-Stanford PhD. This six-week program is nearly filled to capacity and offers two classes each week, expert nutrition coaching, motivational coaching, and more.

Symetrie Featuring The Epic Workout

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. 
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” 

—Howard Thurman

Original examples of Conscious Movement include Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique, Tai Chi, and Yoga. Today’s clubs and fitness industry are moving in the direction of conscious movement, but are they going to get it right? For example, should a class with yoga postures + boxing + loud music be considered conscious movement? What is the difference, ultimately, between the vertical inclusion of meaning and the horizontal inclusion of body techniques? I want to offer four distinctions, or criteria I believe are necessary to help frame the conversation about what makes a session or class, Conscious. These points are found in all the great mind-body programs. Does yours meet the standard?

• Intention: intention to transform and explore what meaning might be found in meeting the upcoming challenges.
• Learning: expanding one’s repertoire, nervous system, brain wiring (and however else you put it) creates new connections. Transformation and consciousness are interested in new connections.
• Inquiry: You, the you that inquires, must make deep and meaningful connections with the observed (your body, your relationships, your thoughts and emotions)
• Awareness: What you are capable of being aware of, or your ability to ware, must expand.

With these points in place, you can be assured that the exercise you are sharing with others or practicing yourself is indeed more than just exercise.

Epic Workout and Yogic Warrior Conditioning is but one expression of Conscious Movement, one that happens to explore the relationship between yoga, functional training and transformation. Now go move, learn, heal, and transform!

Yogic Warrior Conditioning® is category of conscious movement or mind-body/body-mind practices that starts with you. Flipping a class experience on its head, you are the center and your health, fitness, meditation, movement goals are the tools we use. It’s about power and strength both internally and externally. It’s about making exercise more than exercise, and taking yoga off the mat.

Yogic Warrior Conditioning® is a comprehensive health and fitness system combining Yoga, Functional Training, Conditioning and Restorative Techniques in a way that creates usable strength, develops effortless movement, and deepens awareness of body, mind and spirit.

It’s mindful approach to natural movement and strong focus on awareness and creativity transform our tissues and nervous system to create a balance between improved health & fitness, reduced stress, and enhanced coordination & clarity.

Yogic Warrior Conditioning® makes exercise more than exercise, and helps launch one’s yoga practice off the mat.

The Wisdom Book
www.wisdombook.org

This project was brought to my attention recently related to the search for truth. This captures simple, elegant and powerful statements and is visually magnificent as well. I encourage you to watch it, and I am sure you will want to see it more than once. Let us what it does for you. Thank you Andrew Zuckerman!

How is this related to exercise, you ask? To fitness? To yoga? To yogic warrior conditioning?

The tie to life is obvious for most of us, I think. In other words, it is easy to get something out of this mentally, even emotionally. What is not as obvious, or at least is often overlooked, is the physical side. What I would point you to is - what is the feeling of tingling, joy energy and excitement you feel when watching this? Perhaps there is just a glimpse, or perhaps it fills you up with a bright optimism.

Don’t worry about the labels of the feelings, just focus on the feelings themselves. What do those sensations point to in your life? What if you were to look for that kind of inspiration and intention in your activities? And your training. By bringing your mind into such a state, what could you not accomplish in your career, your relationships, and your recreations?

Whatever you do this week, do it with wisdom!

The Epic Workout has One Goal

To transform our notion of exercise towards wholeness, with awareness, for purpose. With a fresh mindset, deep motivation and lots of intent, we can channel our energies towards doing what we love in ways that fulfill us. In terms of exercise and training, we can wake up in the morning looking forward to our workout. We can relish the challenge, accept the nervousness, swallow our fears and get going strong.

The Epic Workout focuses on Strength, Movement and Awareness. We build strength by overcoming challenges. When we face the adventure, step forward into challenge and overcome, we develop our strength of body and character.

We develop movement when we practice moving in new ways, whether that be dance, yoga, athletics, martial arts or innovative movement patterns. With new capacity and ability defined by skills, flexibility, conditioning and creativity, we can take on more of life’s challenges with greater ease.

We cultivate awareness when we shift attention to our experience. Yogis do this with breath and sensation, and in the Epic Workout it is similar, but breath and sensation are on a different level. We learn to own our bodies and minds by better listening to their communications. We play the game of life together, and thus, transform.

About Epic Movement

Three principles make an Epic. With these in mind, you can update your own exercise program, yoga practice, or martial or dance form to provide Epic challenges.

Epic Principles

I. Movement Matters: focus on the essence of multi-dimensional, multi-use movement found throughout life

II. Mindful Intensity: build intuitive skill with mindful intensity, repetition and rhythm

III. Movement as your Mirror: take our mind-body connection seriously and use movement purposefully to discover in yourself what there is to discover

When you apply these principles, you are using exercise to nourish and support your own hero’s journey.