Hard Things Made Easy with Mike!

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Principles and Psychology of Movement

Saturday May 31, 2014
1pm to 3:30pm


Reserve your spot here!

You can do hard things the hard way, or you can do hard things the easy way. It’s entirely up to you!

Want the secrets for how to accomplish incredible challenges with inspiring ease?

 

 

The first secret is, you already have all the secrets! We’re going to free them up and use them, by getting into everything you’ve got. Happily, that’s everything you need, to do everything there is! It all begins right here.

 

Want to run faster, find more power on the bike, climb with ease, and pull off unimaginable feats of strength and endurance? Go easy on yourself. It might be the best way for you to do everything there is.

This doesn’t mean go lazy, go floppy, or don’t go at all. It means go! Go without the idea that hard things can only achieved by force and struggle. Drop that idea off at corner! Go with the idea that you have a choice in how you accomplish everything you accomplish. You can work to gain things in your life by force. You can also work to gain things in your life by ease. Chances are, you’re going to like ease better. With ease, chances are you’re going to like you better.

How??? Avoid smashing headlong against problems and challenges in your life. When you smash against things, things break. You might knock down a few walls this way, but you’ll knock yourself down, too. Get comfortable all around challenges. Get comfortable all around you.

We’re going to get into a framework for how you can do this, and put it into your body and mind through direct practice!

 

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When you know your way around you, you’re going to knock your own socks off. You’re going to have loads of fun seeing things that are supposed to be “hard” just happen for you. No force, no struggle, just doing it. Just doing you.

Try applying this to your yoga. Try applying it to your runs and races, your cycling, rowing, and climbing.

When your training aims for getting to know your body and learning to work with what you’ve got – rather than for how long you can hold a plank, how much weight you can lift, or how fast you can run up hills – you’ll become much better at planks, moving of weight, and hill runs. Not by pushing and struggling up against these barriers – but by making friends with your body. Barriers drop. Things that are supposed to be “hard” just happen for you.

 

This workshop is open to Everybody! We’ll dive into some new ways of thinking. Even better, we’ll practice new ways of doing. We’ll move, we’ll dance, we’ll run all around. Spontaneous outbursts of happiness are extremely likely.

 

Come ready to make friends with your body and get into what you’ve got. Look out! You’re going to inspire a whole lot people this way. Even better, you’re going to inspire yourself.

All workshops are non-refundable, and cost $40.

 

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About Mike

Mike is a guide and resident healer at Strala. Named “Best Mover” by MindBodyGreen and one of Shape Magazine’s Hottest Trainers, he’s practiced Eastern movement and healing techniques, including tai chi, qigong, and shiatsu, for more than three decades.

In his younger years, Mike challenged centuries of reasonable and well-tested martial traditions in hundreds of competitions, by applying unruly imagination to a world where rules were unbreakable. As he got older, he happily become more interested in supporting bodies than disrupting them, and continued on to medical applications of the mind-body connection in university. Mike studied mind-body medicine at Harvard, and alternative medicine and psychology at Oxford. After running into walls with standard medical practice in the U.S. and England, Mike left his healthcare roots. He worked at a steel mill for a while, joined a web company, and then founded a few more.

Now Mike has found his way back to health care done right, helping people let go of stress in their bodies and minds, become their own best caregivers, and live happy capable lives. Mike is the husband of yoga master Tara Stiles, and climbs a few mountains in his spare time.