Healthy Hips + A Lack of Winter
Hey guys,
HAPPY, HEALTHY HIPS just dropped in the program store!
I made it for people with painful hips. Follow it while listening to your body and your hips will be reborn with new levels of buttery mobility and strength.
Mine have been BAD at times. Surgeries, impingement, arthritis or torn labrums — all in my late teens and early 20’s — from training like a rabid, unhinged dog. This is what informs my holistic approach.
You get 3-day/week program AND an in-depth workshop teaching core principles that are often missed.
Also available in the store…
The Floating Spine - heal your lower back pain following the steps I used to heal mine (it was crippling, and now it’s fine). Program + in-depth workshop included.
Handstand Foundations - get a 30-60s handstand… from scratch. And build super strong, mobile wrists and shoulders in the overhead position.
Pull Strength Level 1 - get your first pull up or three, and build stable shoulders that don’t hurt when you hang/climb/surf
Pull Strength Level 2 - get a huge weighted chin, hang off one arm without hesitation, build well-rounded, healthy shoulders and the foundations for feats like the one arm chin-up
21 Days of Stillness - 21 different daily classes to enter the mystical portal of embodiment, allowing thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations float by while remaining centred, peaceful and focused. You will learn more about yourself and your body here than you can imagine.
Attuned Members get this and more for $65 USD/mo with no lock in.
You can sign up here (no minimum term or lock in).
Lastly, it’s mid-winter here in Melbourne, Aus.
I’ve been laying low and really leaning into embodied presence. Practicing speaking less. Thinking less. Trying less… and just being and doing in the way that feels most rich, alive and nourishing.
I’ve bloody well needed it.
It’s like I’m still catching up on years spent normalising burning the candle at both ends. Compensating for the emotional instability I felt when I was young. The forcing. The numbing. The over-exertion. The living out of rhythm with nature.
And the more I settle into myself, the more I realise just how insane my previous normal was.
My body is now showing my in no uncertain terms that I either live more kindly to myself as a matter of priority — right now, or die younger than I want to.
It’s sobering and striking… because as you know, I’ve been on this path for a while.
I must live in Shoshin / 初心 / beginner’s mind, always.
Open, eager to learn and releasing preconceptions even amidst tasks or processes I may consider myself to be advanced in. I am 31. How can I be advanced unless I remember I am only young?
We’re all born into different lives.
The past can catch up, through no fault of our own. It’s just how it is. We become aware through pain, often.
Some of us are quite sensitive, it seems, and need to live quite differently in order to thrive. Our strongest traits may be identical to our greatest weaknesses. And when we’re out of touch with our constitutional strengths and weaknesses, or living in denial of our unique make-up, nature will benevolently remind us — even if she seems harsh.
Winter isn’t for showing off the fruits.
It’s for going within, remembering, quietly gathering.
These seasons aren’t just meant to be external. They’re internal rhythms too. Nothing is separate. We just get fucked up when we act like it is.
If you’ve been chasing summer for too long, things will start to feel scattered, and you’ll just be borrowing aliveness from your future. Deny the coming of winter at your peril. We are not above Mother Nature.
If you won’t be kind to yourself by harmonising with life, life will not be kind to you.
It’s when we remember the balance — which is never fixed and always a listening-responding process in the present, the change is immediately felt.
I teach the application of these principles to training + relationships in BASELINE, my 9-week program.
Much love,
Jack