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

But if we want superior performance and superior experience, then there must be more. Elite athletes like Michael Phelps know the power of breath, relaxation and visualization.

If your goal is to design and train within a well-rounded session, for yourself or others, then you must include breathwork, appropriate stretching and visualization work. Your program is simply handicapped without them, like a four leg stool with only one leg. Ouch!

An Epic class always emphasizes Recovery Breathing, Awareness and a significant Conscious Relaxation practice. To these ends, Epic recommends you check out Inner Getaway, which is hosting a special event on October 20th for just these key lessons: breathing, stretching and visualization.

While Melted Bliss won’t be fitness-related, per se, it will be a retreat worthy of a hero!

“Not all who wanders are lost.”
- Gandalf, J.R.R. Tolkien

Wanderlust Festival is happnening in California, the grand state where The Epic Workout now is based. We’ll be exploring and adventuring through the yogic and musical extravaganza this weekend. Join us there!

EPIC WORKOUT FOR YOUR HERO’S JOURNEY
WITH ALEX IGLECIA

WHEN: Saturday July 11th 2009 @ 12:30pm – 2pm
WHERE: Equinox, Palo Alto (map)
440 Portage Ave
Palo Alto, CA‎
(650) 319-1700‎

WHAT & WHY YOU SHOULDN’T MISS THIS
The Epic Workout is Yoga for your Hero’s Journey: Yoga, Functional Movement, Primal Patterns, and Consciousness. The Epic Workout enhances training by developing core capacities in body and mind, from breath, to strength, to optimal recovery.

This master class will be an adventure of strength, movement and awareness, leaving you feeling refreshingly sweaty, focused and primed for life.

We will cover poses and movements that address the biggest areas of improvement for yogis and athletes. You will flow through pushing, leaping, crawling, stretching, posing, inverting, breathing and meditating. We will develop awareness, body and breath for effortlessness, efficiency and enjoyment of heroic proportions.

Saturday July 11th 2009 @ 12:30pm – 2pm

INVESTMENT: $ 15 members, $ 25 non-members

Reserve your spot at the front desk! Call (650) 319-1700‎

ALSO: Watch out for Epic Workout Workshop this August.

Details for Sunday’s major event:
9:30-10:30am
327 Grant Avenue, San Francisco…the very generous lululemon. Make sure to thank Megan!

The story so far…
The Epic Workout is Yoga for your Hero’s Journey: Yoga, Functional Movement, Primal Patterns, and Consciousness. The Epic Workout enhances training by developing core capacities in body and mind, from breath, to strength, to optimal recovery.

This master class will be an adventure of strength, movement and awareness, leaving you feeling refreshingly sweaty, focused and primed for life.

We will cover poses and movements that address the biggest areas of improvement for yogis and athletes. You will flow through pushing, leaping, crawling, stretching, posing, inverting, breathing and meditating. We will develop awareness, body and breath for effortlessness, efficiency and enjoyment of heroic proportions.

“I can honestly say that this was the best exercise program that I have had. I’ve done a lot of different things in the past. None of these compare to the positive experience I had with your class.
I took a chance and I have not regretted it. Your class is positive, motivating and respectful of members’ individual strengths. The only yardstick for achievement is that each member tries to improve their own performance and not a competition among the participants. No one is ever made to feel bad. It is a credit to how you have designed the program and in particular the people who taught it. Thank you very much.”
- Clark

“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

Yoga is not about the asana. To paraphrase David Nelson of Yoga Garden San Francisco: asana is one part of hatha yoga, which is but one part of a full and integral system of yoga. Do not try to categorize yoga.

And please, do not try to turn off your mind.

Turning off the mind, as an act, simply does not work all that well. Instead, consider your experience of those moments of awe and beauty when someone you love catches your eye. That’s yoga. Feeling. Connecting. Yoga on the mat is a small, small part of the bigger practice of paying attention and loving all of life. For many, it is the gateway into an experiential understanding of connectedness. A yogic practice, or process, can start by being service-oriented, people-oriented, or body-oriented as in a modern yoga class or a class based on Yogic Conditioning or Yogic Warrior Conditioning.  (see www.epicworkout.com).

Regarding your physical practice, consider this: I help people stop trying to fit their minds and bodies into classes and fitness routines, and rather, to take ownership of your body, your practice (and in many ways, your life) by starting with you, your intentions and attentions, and design your program from the inside out. What that depends on, depends on you.

This article reviews the benefits of using kettlebells from the perspective of Yogic Warrior Conditioning and is designed to give the triathlete the possibility of greater outcomes in exchange for your valuable energy and time spent training.

On Kettlebells:
Buy the hype, just don’t believe it. (in other words, get your kettlebell but own your movement).

Kettlebells are simply stimulators and enhancers of multi-functional training of natural human movement.

You already have all the weight you need to create phenomenal strength and power for your purposes and your life. Kettlebells add a level of challenge, skill and learning that support many specific sports, yet the basics are the same. The basic skills of running, jumping, leaping, pushing and pulling are what take you across pavement and through water.

You already know how to build your endurance and train your psyche to succeed for the race. The advantage you are missing is the buildup of your fundamental baselines. This is the level where kettlebells add a concrete and immediate benefit: build your baselines of strength, power and mindfulness and your race time will decrease as you enjoy it even more!

The three skills that most directly transfer to your triathlaon success.

1. 1 and 2-Arm Swings
2. Swing/Hi-pull/Gunsling
3. Snatch or Rack & Push-Press

Thus, DO

• Improve your baseline foundations through appropriate intensity.
• your training needs by balancing the lowest volume required and greatest intensity possible.
• just less (than you think you can), and you’ll progress faster.

And DON’T

• Ignore your breath. It’s your greatest coach, so follow it and heed its lessons.
• Focus on learning too many skills. Push intensity and mastery in core skills and build your baselines.
• Do endless sets and reps. With functional work, build capacity through intensity. Then go practice your race skills.

This article in a sentence:

Follow your breath and maintain awareness as you practice your maximum intensity and effort.

The Sports Club/LA San Francisco, the city’s premier club, is offing three specialty classes in April. All are open to SCLA members and non-members. Take one, two, or all three!
747 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94043 (google map)

Tune In/Tune Up: Set yourself up for the most success.

Discover and use an effective process for preparing your joints and musculature to reap the most benefit from your exercise and yoga practice. We’ll use familiar techniques in new and fascinating ways to get more out of exercise. This class includes an active and mindful workout for all yogis and fitness enthusiasts.

Monday, April 13
5:30-6:30pm
Studio 2

Genius in Action: Place yourself at the center of your transformation.

Harness the energy of the group plus your own internal focus and learning to get more out of your training, practice, and life. We’ll use familiar techniques in new and fascinating ways to get more out of exercise. This class includes an active and mindful workout for all yogis and fitness enthusiasts.

Monday, April 20
5:30-6:30pm
Studio 2

Edge into Action: Create effortlessness and efficiency in challenging exercise.

Learn to ride the balance between effort and ease to recover more fully while you make faster progress in strength, flexibility and cardiovascular endurance. We’ll use familiar techniques in new and fascinating ways to get more out of exercise. This class includes an active and mindful workout for all yogis and fitness enthusiasts.

Monday, April 27
5:30-6:30pm
Studio 2