A Knight of Absolute Pleasure

A home cooked candle lit dinner, sensual music of which Sade would be just the beginning, romantic yet playful dancing, a candle lit bath in essential oils, being carried to the bedroom, a sensual head to toe massage awaits you. This proceeded by being fed fresh fruits like and ancient Greek or Roman goddess, you can stop there if you like but your knight would just be getting warmed up. Did I mention, if it is available in your area and the weather is accommodating, a ride in a horse drawn carriage? Ah yes, a renaissance revival, a medieval masterpiece of an evening filled with poetry, love, laughter, romance, thoughtful gifts and surprises. As Sade says in her song, “The Sweetest Taboo”, “Everyday is Christmas and every night is New Year Eve.” Imagine all this from a “man” who still watches sports, fixes the car and does chores around the house. He takes out the trash, slays dragons, changes diapers, completes the seven trials of Hercules, and does all the things that make a man a man?

The Knights of Katango, aside from their basic training, are trained in methods of how to give their woman absolute pleasure. They are trained in the process of how to create a beautiful romantic evening for their woman. They are trained in the “Art of Romance” and how to make a woman feel beautiful and special pretty much all day everyday while still allowing the space necessary for each to nourish and be themselves. As Khalil Gibran said, “Let there be separateness in your togetherness.” She is to be treated as divinity through which a man reaches his divinity by how he treats her. She is made to feel complete in her goddess energy and thus he, through her, by empowering her achieves his divinity in his masculine energy. A man is only a man according to how he treats his woman, hence the need for Chivalry. There is one contingency. In a romantic relationship, although all women are to be treated with respect and honor, there needs to be an understanding that the woman must also, especially if she would like her man to be at his best, she must love herself enough to attempt to be at her best as well. Both people in a relationship are to realize that they are representatives of the divine incarnate. Both are temples of all that is sacred and holy. Both must act accordingly. Both must be in process of striving to be their absolute best psychologically, emotionally and physically embracing and embodying their divine energies or should not expect it from the other. Bad behavior cannot be rewarded.

Chivalry is an ancient code of honor in the western world stemming back to the Knights of Europe. You have also, no doubt heard of the story of the Knights of Arabia who were most likely influenced by the passionate spiritual and very romantic Sufi tradition. I would like to now add another understanding to these courageous, strong masculine great traditions. Yes I am talking about when “men were men”! In ancient Indian tradition there was Shivaism. Shiva was the god energy that passed on the teachings to Shakti that became known as Tantra. In the west, most of what has been taught was just the shell, the peel of Tantra while the deeper understandings were thrown by the wayside. It is as if the western world ate the peel and threw out the fruit. Yes aspects of Tantra can be experienced to give amazingly pleasurable experiences but somehow just like the way the martial arts got across the water and lost their discipline and direction, so too has Tantra. Also brought to the mix is the Samurai tradition of ancient Japan. The word Samurai actually means, “one who serves”. Now understand, there is a difference between one who serves out of weakness, subservience an fear and one who serves out of love, strength and power. A Knight, a Samurai, a true Tantric, serves the absolute power first. Without that, without understanding the Way all else is lost anyway.

So what does a night of absolute pleasure consist of?
A night of absolute pleasure is an orchestration carried out by your Knight.

1. How does a candlelit dinner (homemade by your knight) sound?

2. How about an evening of dance? Nothing over the top, just a little Tango, Mambo, maybe some Rumba and how about a little free dance so you can experience your own energies as individuals then leading back to moooving together.

3. What about some absolutely delicious mood music to set the tone, and the candles, the incense or the burning of some essential oils?

4. Let us not forget the candlelit bath or if you are close enough being lovingly "bathed" in essential oils.

5. How about a head to toe sensual massage to relaxing romantic music to prepare your body to allow you to fully experience every nuance of pleasure?

6. Ah yes, you the goddess, like a Greek or Roman shall be fed fresh fruit covered in whipped cream, champagne and honey.

7. After that, if you are of mutual consent and are of deeper understanding, you can be treated to a modified though very deep and intimate sharing of love and energy through a Romantic Neo-Tantric experience. I do not teach traditional nor the typical (poly-amorous) but "monogamous relationship" based practical Tantric understandings for the purpose of bringing "two" people closer. I teach your Knight to be more intimate and aware. I teach him take his time, to slow down and find out what makes "you" feel best. It is an intimate encounter, a mutual opening and surrender into the subtle sublime that ultimately transports you both into a state of ecstatic orgasmic oblivion. The experience is an exploration, a probing into the mysteries of union, a reverent divine dance of trust. Indeed you will both have a Knight to remember, a Knight of Absolute Pleasure.

Take a look at the “Knights of Katango” and “Chivalry is not Dead” to find out some of the other benefits of having your own Knight. Let me know your thoughts and what else you would like from your man. Browse through the many "interesting" topics. Look for an upcoming article on Neo - Tantra and the Unio Mystica.

Women Would Live Longer if Men Would Last Longer

Remember the scene in “Along Came Polly” when, in the middle of the love making scene between Jennifer Aniston and Ben Stiller, he was counting the seconds trying to last at least five minutes? Five minutes! Oh, how often that happens. Men try to last not even knowing how to or why they need to last. Although there are understandings to help men last longer and learn what they can do to mutually increase pleasure while they are lasting longer, most men do not bother to learn them to their and to their woman’s detriment.
What people do not do to help themselves, they do to hurt themselves.
“What you don’t know, is hurting you”. You might even say it is in essence killing you. How? By not allowing you to live longer and better because we have not been told the truth about what sex really is and what it is really for. Because out-dated religion’s, tradition’s and Puritanism’s, we age about 25% faster than we are supposed to. Spirituality, “religiousness” and science, which by the way proves and not disproves the existence of a divine source, are to help you live longer and better because of deeper understandings of actual truths not projected politically oriented rules to keep you in line. Imagine being, 30 looking and feeling 22, or 40 looking and feeling 30, or 60 looking and feeling like you did in your early 40’s, and being stronger, smarter and sexier too? Besides, if you live longer and better, it gives you more opportunity to grow and understand the truth of how things really are, to go deeper spiritually.

As I said in the blog, “Why We Die”, the reason we stop living is that we stop growing and regenerating at least physically. Our cells stop regenerating because at around thirty years old we stop producing HGH (human growth hormone) not to mention testosterone, both of which help develop muscles and function for far more than just the sake of strength. Did you know that people, especially women, get face lifts only to compensate for loss of muscle in their face and neck? HGH is naturally produced by stimulating the pituitary gland which is actually triggered when the energy of a matured orgasm is drawn up. This means that if men would last longer during each intimate encounter, at least long enough to allow you to generate, cultivate and circulate orgasmic energy, women would maintain, even gain, vitality, beauty, and youthful appearance not to mention live longer too. Again people, especially women, get cosmetic surgery, particularly face lifts, to compensate for the skin sagging due to the “atrophy” of the muscles in the face and neck. There are facial exercises to rebuild the muscles.

So now that you know which do you choose,

cosmetic surgery or “orgasmic urgery”?

I have talked to hundreds of women about their intimate lives. In an effort to maintain their pride, they say oh yes, they have great sex, but great sex compared to what? Unfortunately, the truth as most women know in their sexual encounters is, by the time a woman is warmed up, the man is finished and cooling down. They “believe”, or at least make themselves believe, they’ve had an orgasm on occasion. When they find out what an orgasm actually is, that there are different types of orgasms, and that all they have occasionally experienced, if at all, is a local (genital) low energy orgasm, what is referred to as cumming, they say oh, I didn’t know there was a difference. Yes there is a difference, a “big” difference, not only in feeling and the experience itself, but more important, what it can do for you. I guess the question is and is the most misunderstood thing about sex, “What is an orgasm and more important, what is it for and what does it do?” Do you yourself really know? First, there is no screaming yes, yes that’s it baby. You are not coherent enough at that moment to say that. In fact, you are not there at all. You are gone. A real orgasm is an incredible spiritual experience. You may speak in tongues, but the other cheerleading stuff, no. How do you know? Because during a real orgasm, what is the most common thing said, excuse me screamed?

Oh God, Oh God, Oh God! And that is what is happening; your Kingdom is “Coming”. God is entering you at this moment of
re-birth, just as God through your soul entered you at your original birth.

At the end of the blog are the benefits of the orgasm.

So now you know. Faking an orgasm is hurting you and not helping him. This is like a teacher passing a student with an “A” whom at best deserves an “e” for effort. How can someone pass a test that has never bothered to study the subject? P.S., you, your feelings and thoughts, your anatomy are the subject that determines, no pun intended, the outcome of each intimate encounter. It is your man’s responsibility to understand this. If he can read the schematics for a building or understand the diagram of a football play, he can and should be able to see and understand how you function. Any man who cannot tell, cannot feel, if his woman is having an orgasm is somewhere in outer space when she is giving her “Oscar” worthy performance. To start, if he is aware enough, sensitive enough, he can tell by your breathing. The breathing lets him know how close you are; how far along you are in the pre-orgasmic process. Kind of like how a safe cracker has to be sensitive enough to listen for the tumblers in a safe. Then as you are actually climaxing, as it is occurring “for real” whether he is using his lingam, (a larger lingam means easier stimulation of trigger points), or his fingers (which can provide more accurate stimulation), he can feel your yoni pulsing “as” you are letting go.

So you understand, it is not the moving that is seen or heard in “When Harry Met Sally”, that is the orgasm. It is what causes the response simulated in “When Harry Met Sally”. Sally showed only the symptoms. It is not the external moving that signals the orgasm. It is the “being moved” from the rhythmic waves of pulsating energy rushing through your entire body and nervous system bathing even your brain in ecstatic bliss. It is the intensity of the energizing of every nerve, contracting every muscle in concert and symphony. Paradoxically, an orgasm is actually a painful pleasure. It is as the French say “le petite morte”, the little death. The writhing and undulating of the body during an orgasm and the screams and moans are actually from a “hurt so good” experience. You are actually, during an orgasm, dying to your old self giving “re-birth” to your new self. How long you are able to ride the “orgasmic wave”, how long he is able to help you keep at that peak, repeating the process of escalation and the pause, building the tension, before you spill over into actual orgasm and then his ability to rhythmically apply the proper amounts of pressure to the right points, allowing it to continue within you determines the intensity, depth and length of the orgasm. You can have a peak (intense and powerful), a valley (deep, smooth and warming) orgasm or an oscillating integration of the two. This is of course all after the man taking you through the “process” of connection, communion and relaxation, to make your nervous system more available to experience the process.

The peak and valley are a topic for later discussion.

So the question is, “How can any man who calls himself a man, who says he cares, or even if he is unaware, not only deprive you of the incredible feeling that is your “right” to experience; Yeah, I said it! Let “The Right to Orgasm Movement” begin; even deprive himself of the honor and ability to make you feel like a woman, to bring you to the divine, to release the Goddess within you and thus he truly be a man because of it. How can he deprive himself of a better fireworks display than the Fourth of July? I mean come on. If a guy can sit for hours and play video games getting excited to see what level he can get to, why can’t he transfer that thought to see what “level” he can bring you to. The reaching of a level inside his head could be a thousand times over more rewarding for both of you if he reapplied the time and energy it took to understand the games to understand you and himself. Imagine if he took the time and energy to understand the process of how and what works and is incredibly mutually stimulating and pleasing rather than occasionally watching a mindless porno that in reality is just more faking it? It has to be faked because the movements and techniques would not allow for anything to “really” happen especially for the woman. He doesn’t realize the actress is faking it, so he doesn’t realize you’re faking it. Except for surface appearance, pornography lacks the psychological, emotional and physical connections necessary to induce orgasm. They don’t have “the Right Moves”. The Kama Sutra is even misunderstood in the west. It is not the external positions that make anything happen. It is what happens inside of the woman because of the movements, during the positions, that provides the possibility for something to happen and every position is not effective or useful for every couple.

What increases the chances of greater stimulation? Both men and woman being able to move their hips well in concentrated motions that increase the chances of more constant and more consistent stimulation of the “many” points within a woman necessary to achieve orgasm. The Katango class uses dance to teach you how to create “the motion of the ocean”. It also teaches singles and couples through basic dance movements you can practice, together or alone anywhere, to move better together in rhythm. The “very effective” movements are hidden in the dancing as karate was hidden from Daniel –san in the Karate Kid. You wouldn’t even know what you learned until in that intimate moment both of you suddenly seemed to naturally, effortlessly “just get it right!” And the result well let’s just say, the fourth of July would come, no pun intended, far more than once a year. For that matter more than once a night, or an hour, a minute. Translation, no more minute man, but minute woman is not at all out of the question once both of you or at least he understands. The class, by the way, also conditions people to be in great shape, allowing them to last long enough to let the climactic process escalate and mature. All of this is done in a very fun, fully clothed, respectful class.


“All women are multi-orgasmic!”
Unless something is unfortunately medically or deeply emotionally wrong (which can be worked through), “All women are multi-orgasmic!” As Richard Pryor once comically said there is a sure way to tell if a man has done right by his woman in an intimate encounter. “SHE GOES TO SLEEP”! She can’t move. Why can’t you move or do you go to sleep? Because every nerve in your body has been flooded with an ecstatic energy surge, your circuits overloaded as if a circuit breaker has been tripped and needs time to reset. An orgasmic earthquake has occurred, all circuits have been blown and after that comes the residual effects called tremors. Just like after and intense workout where all energy has been spent there needs to be a recovery time. During this time, the releasing of all that energy and those healing hormones, yes, “Marvin Gaye was right”, need you to rest, to recover, because the body and the brain grow at rest. This is why sleep is important. Sex relieves stress because of the energy sweeping through the system relieving it of excess nervous energy that is tying up the body. It is like when a bomb is used to put out a fire.

Woman, you are not a baby factory. You are a miracle! Although you are the mother of all things and your feminine essence is divine through which all life comes, you are not at all understood by men. In reality, for both women and men, sex is even more for the purpose of recreation, through the orgasmic process, rather than procreation which is actually done, although beautiful, on a limited basis. As I said, a woman is meant to be able, through orgasm to give re birth to herself. As most women have seen, an orgasm is not necessary for a woman to get pregnant. A man would not even have sex if he didn’t have at least a genital orgasm. God’s trick to multiply the human race was the base male orgasm, the “cumming”. Try to understand also that the same benefit occurs for a man to recreate himself. If he understood that a woman gives him an opportunity for rebirth as well, he might take each encounter more seriously and with more reverence. He would realize the sacredness of each encounter.


Okay, let’s get more serious. The purpose of an orgasm is to nourish the body. It is a recirculation of energy, back up the spine which occurs through the triggering of the kunda gland. Yes kunda, as in kundalini yoga. The spine is an energy channel through which energy and sensory signals move up and down. What is unknown about the chakras or centers, aside from the understanding that they are energy centers is that behind each chakra is an endocrine gland. Endocrine glands release hormones that heal and nourish the body and brain. Through orgasms and circulation of energy your glands function better and at a higher level. Now, what may be the most important three to human beings are the 4th, 5th, and 6th center's responses. Yes, true, the root and lower sex centers 1, 2 and 3 are the first to be triggered, “if” someone is actually stimulated enough for even a cumming the un-matured genital orgasm. Unfortunately, usually, as I mentioned, the genital orgasm, again is only experienced as the “cumming”, is the energy that needs to flow through, to permeate, to rush through the entire body and ecstatically flood the nervous system, is not powerful enough to get above the 3rd chakra the navel center: Beyond that, it stimulates;

The 4th, the Heart Center, the Thymus which controls t-cell counts responsible for immune system function.

The 5th the Throat Center the Thyroid which controls metabolism, “weight and body fat” control.

The 6th the Third Eye Center the Pituitary Gland releases HGH, the human growth hormone, and signals a release of testosterone. These two are responsible for “rebuilding” the body. You see many athletes now taking HGH to improve and or prolong there careers. HGH, which we usually stop naturally producing at about 30 or so, “makes you younger” and your body, through this increases muscle mass which is responsible for increasing metabolism and reducing body. You, of course still have to put in the workouts, the exercise, although it is a lot easier because your body acts as if it is years younger. Remember when you used to think you could eat “just about” anything and still stay in pretty good shape?

Somewhere in your brain between the 6th and 7th centers "chakras"is your reward, your “Pleasure” Center. When you do something good, and your brain registers it as something that will improve or prolong your life, your brain acknowledges this and releases endorphins and other “feel good” chemicals into your system. It is the opposite of the red light on the dashboard or the fight or flight chemicals that are released when something is not going right. When someone does drugs and gets addicted to them, it is because this area has been tricked and falsely registered that something good has been done that will keep you alive. Unfortunately, the drug has actually fooled your system. Anything that fools your system will have what is called a side effect and it is usually a negative one. Drugs and alcohol kill brain cells. Orgasms create and connect brain cells. The drug “E”, ecstasy releases chemicals, hormones similar to an orgasm including oxytocin, the hug chemical. This is the reason for its’ enormous popularity, but again, it is not without consequences. Amazingly, not so much realized is;

the 7th Center, the Pineal Gland and in this area consciousness can be improved greatly. This is, in Buddhist and Hindu understanding, the 1ooo Petalled Lotus. This is where we go beyond the 10% of the brain, that Einstein said, we normally use. In reality it stimulates the growth and connection of new neuropath ways especially those between the left and right brain. You have all heard the term 7th Heaven right? Where do you think that term came from? It comes from not suffering as much because you have a deeper and better understanding. Remember, consciousness is diametrically opposed to suffering. The more conscious you are, the less you suffer. The less conscious you are, the less you understand, the more things bother you and the more you will stress and the more you will suffer. Suffering and stress come from not having an immediate answer to an immediate problem. An answer you cannot access once you are stresses. Under stress you regress. Oh by the way, the first rule of Tantra is relax. Stress and sex are not good bedmates. If your nerves are caught up with stress, it is like a clogged freeway then there is very little room available for your orgasmic energy to travel through your system. You know the orgasm that will help you live .longer, looking and feeling younger and better if your man would last longer!



This and other understandings are taught to the Knights of Katango.

The what and how to do is taught as part of the forthcoming training program
“Knights of Absolute Pleasure”. Look for this soon!

Could your or do you know any men who could use some knighthood training?
See the Knights of Katango and Chivalry is not Dead blogs.

The "Bad Kitty"

How it happened, I have no idea. We did this one really fun, flirty, sexy little number that had people laughing hysterically. It trims and tones the triceps, I mean it really makes them burn. It’s kind of a cabaret burlesque routine to the Joe Cocker song, “Leave Your Hat On”. We’re down on all fours doing this tricep toning exercise that is somewhat risqué’. In it, we do this timed little group hair flip you know, the stripper hair flip, a little wink and then we slap or pound the floor “all together” as an exclamation point. All around the room, women; laughing, flipping and twirling their hair, even those with short hair, playfully uninhibitedly, bright eyed and shaking their tails, meowing, from 16 to 60 plus, fully expressing their femininity, having a ball. There they were a garden of flowers, blossoming, blooming, and opening, a safe place, respected, absolutely free from judgment, free to be themselves however and whoever they are. Some open more. Some open less. But since this began, I have noticed that each time the smiles and hearts open wider. So the next time I’m teaching, midway through the class, I’m changing the music. I turn around and there they are with their arms folded. Now I know what it means when “a” woman stands and stares at you with her arms folded. As a man, the next thing out of your mouth is, “Yes Dear”, if you want to live. But a room full of women with their arms folded, “oh my”! Then I noticed it. It was a conspiracy. They all had this smirk. They were looking at each other giggling. So there I was, 6 feet tall 200 lbs., looking like a deer, okay a buck, in the headlights, knowing pretty much that I was going to have to say yes to their request, if I wanted to live. But what would that request be? And then they said it, almost in chorus. “We wanna do the “Bad Kitty”!” I said, “The what”? With arms still folded they shifted their positions and huffed as if to reload. They emphatically repeated, “We wanna do the “Bad Kitty”, you know, the Bad Kitty, the floor thingy with the hair flip and the wink. And so it was born, at least in name.

They’re cool, they’re wild, they’re sexy as black panthers;

Behold, I give you, “Felines Mischievous”
the “Baaad Kitties of Katango”!

There is also a free dance part of the Katango class where people get to dance like no one is watching. After you learn and practice some Latin, funky, jazzy, sexy moves, you get a chance to try those moves or any ones you like to a song or two. The letting go is absolutely amazing, beautiful. I just play DJ and go about the business of preparing for the next phase of the class. I glance over on occasion to check in but for the most part, I want you to not feel like you are, not so much being watched, as being let go to be free to express. If you have a question, I am there. I am open. If not it is great to let you be free to enter in and explore, experience and express yourself through movement.

One person was quoted as saying, “This is absolutely the most fun you can have with your clothes on!”

Please see the class schedule for times and places. How much fun do you want your life to be? Come in and find out how much it can be!

Training for Warriors & Lovers

My training is for Warriors & Lovers, Passionate Lovers who are Peaceful Warriors who dance with life, who dance with difficulty, who turn adversity into their ally, who transform their demons into their angels and are wise enough to realize they are one and the same. As Nietzsche says though, “Careful in casting out your demons, lest you cast out the best part of yourself”! A master has done the “Internal Alchemy”. A real, a true warrior knows the war is within. A true lover knows they must first love themselves before they can love another. They must love themselves enough to fight the war within themselves, the “Jihad” in Sufism. Jihad means “inner war”, a war you fight within yourself, not with another. The outer war is always an excuse, an indication that the inner war has yet to be fought. You use the other as an excuse. A master is one who can love, be compassionate, empathetic with another because they have seen and won “most” of the wars, most of the same wars within themselves. They no longer struggle “so much” with the same difficulties as the average “un-awakened” person. In love and life, you can only give what you have and you have a choice. Do you give your trash or your treasures, your gifts or your garbage? All of this depends on whether you have loved yourself enough to rid yourself of the poisons of hatred, ignorance, narcissism and neurosis. If you love your neighbor as yourself, but do not love yourself, you in turn really cannot love your neighbor.

I am a movement arts specialist. I help you experiment, explore and ultimately experience movement and yourself in a new way. My class is meta-physical fitness. It follows, as I too follow the Great Way! I myself have no way. I have given up on my own foolishness. My way is now to follow "the Way"! Mine is the Tao “the Way” of the Kata. The Kata is a meditative repetition of a motion until it becomes part of you, until you get it. Mine is the way of the Mantra. Sayings, quotes, phrases and poetry are repeated until you get “IT”! More so, until "IT" gets you! Katas and Mantras are ways of practice for human beings to "Bring Heaven down to Earth", to manifest on "Earth as it is in Heaven". Nerves that fire together, wite together. We become what we practice most. I, like Bob Fosse repeat, repeat, repeat til’ you get it right. Fosse’s favorite word is again. He was a dance warrior. He was a lover of dance. He was a movement artist. He channeled and like him, like any true artist, channel teachings for people to learn to move so that they can move others. Every movement says something. I channel understandings for people to be moved, to be moved by source energy. Even Yoga, and their can be no dance without Yoga, in India is different than here in America. In India you may practice one posture, one asana for an hour. The posture becomes perfect when the effort to achieve it ceases. You are no longer there; you have “died” into it. You have died into “IT”. As in Zen and the Art of Archery, when the teacher was teaching his student of what really happens, he said, “You do not shoot, “IT” shoots!”; “IT” being source energy. True dancers do not move, they are moved!” If people want a dance teacher, there are plenty of people to teach those mindless movement classes.

A lover’s, a warrior’s, a dancer’s purpose is to send people to GOD. A lover and a dancer’s purpose are to take their partner, their audience to God. A lover, a warrior’s and a dancer’s movements do not need to be many so much as they need to be, effective, potent, very very potent. They must each have an effect. They must affect. They must go deep into the psyche and the body of their partner, their audience. Dare I say, they must be infectious? It is said in Japan, “Do nothing useless”! You must learn to channel Tao, Zen, Tantra, Christ Consciousness, and Buddha Nature through non-verbal communication, communion through body language! The Sufi’s say, “God has no hands but yours”. Dare I say not feet, no legs, no hips, but yours? Dance is an excuse, it is a medium. The movements taught are precise, accurate, deliberate! There is power in purpose. Rumi says, “Love comes with a knife, not some shy request!” It is there to open you up, to expose your heart. He said, “I want burning, Lovers who speak are one sort, lovers who burn are another!” “If you do not burn, this is not your house!” If you do not want to burn, my classes are not for you! I teach burning. I channel teachings for people to burn! Jesus said, I come not to bring peace but a sword and fire. I am here to set fire to the world, to set it ablaze and oh how I wish it were burning now!” Hell’s fire is an ice palace compared to the Divine Fire! Don’t escape it embrace it. Gold is purified by fire. So, “Ride the burn, Burn Baby Burn!” Like the movements of a katana, the samurai sword, the body movements are used to slay, to wow, to awe, to create heat, to create energy. I am here to open you, to make you burn, to be passionate, to be alive. It is not what you do but “how”!

To be a lover, you must be a warrior within. All lovers are warriors but not all warriors are lovers. One must be a warrior to learn to love or to dance. Love is a dance. One must be able to dance with their lover. Says, Rumi, “God loves you the way you make love!” Women have wisely realized, people make love the way they dance! Tango is merely vertical Tantra. To learn to dance, to learn to love one must be a fearless warrior. They cannot fear the inevitable mistakes, the failures, the pains and the death “of the ego”. No agony no ecstasy! Pain and pleasure enter through the same door. Pain is but the seed of pleasure just as the ego is but the seed of the spirit. You cannot know one without the other in either case. You must slay the ego, the stupidity, the negative voices within or you will not make progress only excuses. The little boy in the sixth sense said, I see dead people. He was right! My training is not for those who are fear death, it is for those who fear “not living”! Say the Sufi’s, “No one gets into Heaven without crucifixion.” The ego sublimation is the price that must be paid to get into Heaven. In China, when I was being trained, I asked my teacher, due to what they were putting me through, if he was trying to kill me. He said, “Yes, the you that you think you are must die. Why would you want him to live, there is no end to the heartache, sorrow, and trouble he causes you. The idiot must die so the master can live.” This is the reason for the Sufi saying “Die before you Die!” This is the reason Jesus said, “If you try to save your life (ego) you will lose it (spirit) and if you lose your life (ego) you will save it (spirit)”! The Lover and Warrior may and should be fools from time to time, but stupid, dumb, never.

I also get a kick out of people who “think” they are wild. They think if they move a lot and make noise they are wild. Have you ever seen a truly wild animal, a black panther, a tiger, a wolf, a cobra, a cougar? They are silent. They are dangerous. Their movements are few, but precise, deliberate, exact. They are patient. They wait. Remember, it is the quiet ones that are dangerous! The quiet ones are those who prey. The noisy ones are the prey. The quiet ones are those who pray. The noisy ones are those who are the prey of society. The “prey” are many, the prey-ers, the praying are few. They are rare. They enter through the narrow gate. It is the old Chinese saying, “Better to keep your mouth closed and let people wonder if you are an idiot than to open your mouth and prove it!” Those who say much, those who do much, do not understand. Those who speak do not know, those who know do not speak! In archery, a bulls–eye is mastery, because “IT” shoots!” In golf, a hole in one is mastery. All of this stupidity with Viagra and its’ clones is just so annoying. Giving a man an erection doesn’t make him a better lover any more than giving him a golf club makes him Tiger Woods or a giving him a racket makes him Roger Federer. Woods and Federer play, “In the Zone”. “IT” plays through them. They are an excuse. The bulls-eye, the hole in one, the winner down the line, are hit before the shot is made. They are just a manifestation of what “IS”! You can’t play well unless you’re in the zone, unless you follow the way. You can’t cook unless you are on the burner! You have to hit the spot to make it hot! Burn Baby Burn!

Growing Younger ~ the new Anti-Aging

What is anti- aging?
This is really simple once you understand what aging is. You might simply say the opposite of aging, right? Maybe!

What is aging? Aging is really what takes place when something stops growing. It is the opposite of growing. In truth in humans and all living things, it is called atrophy. Growth is called hyper-trophy. When you build a muscle, you know the muscles that hold your skeletal structure together, the ones that keep you from slouching over giving you bad posture, yeah, those muscles. You know the muscles that shrink in your face and all over your body that makes your skin sag, particularly though in the face, yeah, those muscles. People get face lifts, which is really skin tightening to compensate for the lack of muscles in the face that “used to” fill up the facial skin. So basically except for your organs, your appearance changes along with your abilities due to loss of muscle mass. Aging is more a loss of muscle mass, a ceasing of muscle growth and an actual atrophy of the muscles of the body, especially those that you don’t use.

What causes aging? This is simple. The human brain around 35 years of age or so, some earlier or some later gradually slows down and eventually stops releasing HGH or Human Growth Hormone. HGH, as you might have guessed, is what is responsible for your ability to increase muscle mass. This does not mean that if you have growth hormones you will become a body builder. That is an “abuse” of or “misuse” of HGH. Release of HGH occurs naturally in your body as does release of testosterone which also increases muscle growth and energy. Both together increase sex drive. This is where it gets interesting. Did you know that the same energy to procreate is the same energy you can use to re- creates yourself? Did you know that you can re-ignite the body’s ability to release those same growth hormones that started your growth process in your youth, to keep you young? Probably not. This is because you were told that the way to do it is through a door that is considered taboo. Your pro-creative organs are also re-creative organs. What I refer to as Restorative Sexuality is a way to create a Sacred Monogamous situation where two people can use a deeper understanding of the mysteries of the body that were, to an extent understood by ancient cultures and masters, to not only increase life quantity but improve life quality.

The Kundalini energy spoken of in Yoga is actually ctreated in a gland more often than not denied by science. What it does and what many have felt in my classes is help create and direct energy back up the spine. We do a lot of spinal stretching, alignment and strengthening which is essential for allowing the free flow of energy up and down the spine. The energy travels through the micro-cosmic orbit in Taoist practice. The same path is also used in Tantric practice. If you become skilled at this process which is taught at my workshops, you can learn to bring the energy up that will “naturally” allow the growth hormone HGH to be re-released into your system and to help the body to increases muscle building testosterone so you can “GROW YOUNG”.

There is no sense in increasing the quantity of life unless you are willing to increase the quality of life. The quality of life can only be increased if “consciousness’ is increased. If someone is suffering, what is the sense of prolonging their suffering? If someone’s life is also causing “others” to suffer, what is the sense of prolonging their life. Hurt people hurt people. There is far more psychological and stress pollution causing people to age than air pollution. So, consciousness, which is diametrically opposed to suffering, must be a main focus of growth. If you grow physically without growing consciously, you will end up “Strong like Bull, Dumb like Cow!” as is said in Chinese philosophy. To stop learning is also to stop growing. That is also a sign of aging. Another wonderful aspect of this process is the fact that this process increases brain function and learning capacity. It opens and assimilates the unused areas of the brain spoken of by Einstein. Ah, the opening of the 1000 petalled lotus! Goodbye Alzheimer's!

Speaking of STRESS!
Stress causes aging. It also causes a halt of the growth process, because it puts your body in the defensive mode. It channels your body’s energies into your immune system function and healing rather than growth. Modern Yoga is great actually more so for stress relief. It is important though to employ methods not only of stress relief but, more important, stress prevention.

The Knights of Katango

Chivalry is not Dead!

Women of the World, would you like to see a return of Chivalry? Are you ready to be treated like a "Lady" again? Are you ready to be romanced again? Does your man or someone you know need a makeover? Here is the movement for you to support because here is the movement that supports you. Tell everyone you know Chivalry is back!!! Bring in your man and have him learn to be more attentive, learn to listen, to be more conscious and learn to dance "with you". Katango uses gender conscious tools and lessons simultaneously in class. We can teach your man and other men to dance using athletic and martial arts terms for him to easily grasp and feel comfortable. Meanwhile for you, we use dance and poetic terminology which hopefully he'll pick up too. Come in. Bring your friends. Help me help you.

I thank you for your interest and support,
Sir William Sunday Mars

THE KNIGHTS OF KATANGO

Like the knights of days gone by, like the samurai, a word in Japanese that actually means “servant”, and like our own marines we will live by a code of honor and respect. Unlike the Knights, Samurai, and Marines he is also a lover. He is at once a Knight in the European tradition of Chivalry and an Arabian Knight, passionate, romantic and wild. We live for love, for Love is God and God is Love. We constantly aspire to what is higher within ourselves, for ourselves, for the good of others. We are content to be thought foolish and stupid for the sake of improvement for as it says in the Tao, “One who cannot be weak cannot be strong!” We are drunk with love, wild and passionate. We are romantic! We dance! We set an example for all men to aspire to. We are whole, complete, the total package. We master ourselves spiritually, physically, psychologically, emotionally, socially, romantically, sexually and financially. These are the 8 Great Ways!

A Knight of Katango is a servant of all particularly the Goddess energy. It is sad, “He who would be great must be the servant!” He is a man who constantly improves and develops himself.

1. A Knight of Katango trains his body so that he is a blessing to his woman rather than a burden. His body is that of an athlete, a warrior, a dancer who realizes the only true battle, one of which is laziness, and competition is within him. His body must be capable of carrying out all the necessary chores of the home. He wants to offer her his best as she hers and wants to be pleasing to her eyes as well as her ears as she his. He must also be of good health to assist others in general because appearance is useless without ability and direction.

Because A Knight of Katango is both a Lover and a Warrior,
he will be taught basic dance and self-defense.

2. He must be aware and in control of his thoughts and feelings so as to temper himself well. This means he must learn to be relaxed under pressure so that he can rectify situations, restoring balance and harmony. Like steel, if he loses his temper, he loses his worth. Be aware though that anger is not wrong if it is directed towards the highest good. Remember Jesus in the Temple with the money changers. He must stand up and handle whatsoever difficulty threatens peace and serenity. It is not good for people to have stress, especially a woman. Her body and soul cannot be obstructed by this if she is to attain her highest ecstasy. He must also not play party to her doing that which destroys peace. One can never reward bad behavior and to condone or allow it is to reward it. This does not mean that one does not enjoy life and party like its’ 1999, go out on a limb or push the envelope. There is a time for peace, for passion, to party and if you really get it right, all three all at once. You can do what you like as long as what you are doing is not detrimental to others. Remember, this is the "all at once for the ONE in all".

3. He must temper himself sexually. Although he will learn and acquire great skills to give her “absolute pleasure” through the teachings, he must be monogamous. He must understand that his woman is his “doorway to the divine” and he hers. Their lovemaking is a sacred threshold to be honored.


4. A Knight of Katango must also be familiar with poetry, Rumi, Shakespeare, Kahlil Gibran, Rilke, John Donne, Emily Dickenson and Thoreau to name a few. He must have awareness of the great spiritual texts, the Tao te Ching, the Bhagavad-Gita the Bible and yes the Quran taking none of them literally if possible but if he partakes of a particular religious view, he must be respectful of those of others. He must have awareness of the works of the great philosophers and metaphysicians for instance Nietzsche, Descartes, Schopenhauer. Through these works he may form his own views and understandings, “while” being absolutely aware that it is his view and understanding and not “THE” view and understanding. He must always be learning and growing. He must be a good listener.

5. He must be able to entertain her. He “must” able to dance with her. This is the reason for the simplified Katango dance steps. He must have a sense of humor. A Knight of Katango can not be a tight lipped, whiny, Like Tao and Zen he must be able to flow from one situation to the next. Oh yes, Real Men cry. If you can not or do not on occasion cry because you have been conditioned to be stoic, I now tell you as a boxer, a martial artist and an athlete who followed the rule that if you get hurt, tape it up and get back out there etc., it is ok to cry. It’s the whining that is a problem. In fact if you have not found something in life that hasn’t made you cry, you haven’t looked deep enough into life and I am glad you are reading this.

So yes, this is a calling out, nay a challenge to all men who would call themselves men. How do you know you are a man? What determines this? It is simultaneously your contrast and yet your ability to complement the feminine energy. You must at once be firm in your masculinity yet aware of and sensitive to, the needs of your woman. A Knight of Katango is a gentleman who respects and honors women, the elderly and children. He allows them to go first, is attentive to their needs and is helpful whenever he can be for his strength is only strength if it benefits others. True power empowers. A Knight is also respectful of his fellow man for in as in women, children and the elderly, for in him is also the Great Spirit. He must basically be helpful of and for all.

Translation, do not wait to so who else will help another human being whose car is broken down or whose tire is flat, especially if it is a woman, an elderly or disabled person and especially if there are children present. You be the first to offer help to someone carrying something that looks too heavy for them again especially if it is a woman and if they are using two hands to carry that thing, even if they feel they can carry it, you get the door if needed. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.Treat all women you come in contact with, with the respect you would treat or give your mother, because all women are in fact a representative of the “Divine Mother” the Goddess Energy. This of course carries over everywhere exclusive of intimate encounters where you free and must be free to what she needs you to do to please your woman. Then you obviously do not treat a woman as you would treat your mother.

A Knight of Katango is a one who is sweet on the streets and wild in the sheets!

Along with the open Katango, Rebellious Wellness and Zen Body Sculpting classes and workshops where both men and women are welcome, there will be men only Knights of Katango classes and workshops available soon for the men who are too shy to learn around women.

Men can begin their training in the weekly Katango classes and progress to Knighthood if they choose.

Katango,
a WORKOUT for Warriors and Lovers
Class Schedule
at rebelliouswellness.com

Monday
Marin Ayurveda 5:30 to 6:45pm
85 Bolinas Road Fairfax- behind Casa Manana
415.456.6351

Tuesday
Bay West Ballroom 5:15 to 6:30pm
1133 E. Francisco Blvd. Ste .D starting in October
San Rafael 415.457.4619

Wednesday
Marin Ayerveda 5:30 to 6:45
85 Bolinas Road Fairfax-behind Casa Manana
415.456-6351


Thursday
World Dance Fitness 8:30-9:40am
$0 Greenfield Ave. San Anselmo
http://www.worlddancefitness.com/

Bay West Ballroom 5:15 to 6:30pm
1133 E. Francisco Blvd. Ste. D starting in October
San Rafael 415.457.4619

Women’s Fitness Center 7:00 to 8:00pm
Fairfax 2088 Sir Francis Drake Blvd
415.485.1770

Friday

CHIVALRY IS "NOT" DEAD

Chivalry is not dead! Men have forgotten what it means to be a man. Chivalry suffers from the same ills as romance and love. Men have not been taught or have forgotten the importance of women. How can they love, honor, and cherish, be romantic with or ravish for that matter, what they do not understand. Their mothers represent their most tangible source of feminine energy. Their mothers gave birth to them. What is not realized is that after their initial physical birth, the feminine energy plays yet another role in their constant rebirth and recreation. It is through the women and her divine female energy that men are not only born but, when men truly understand sex ultimate, are born again. Through the mystery of woman, man can achieve awareness and understanding of his greatest self.

It is not because you are weak that the doors should be held for you. It is not because you are incapable that the chair should be pulled out and pushed in for you. It is not because you are uncoordinated that your coat should be held when you put it on. And when you enter the room or return to the table it is not because you are in need of that attention because of insecurity. It is because the man sees before him the key to his divinity. It is because the man sees before him the answer to his deeper self. It is because you woman are sacred and represent the divine mother through which all life enters this world. It is because the man is witnessing the perfect mirror of himself. Does not a mirror need to be delicately handled? To show a lack of respect for a woman does not so much show what a man thinks of women. It shows what he thinks of himself. A man is only a man and is as much a man as he treats well a woman.

P.S. A man should never hit a woman. Ever! This is the act of a complete cowardice. However I believe it is continuous thanking and an occasional spanking that keeps a relationship healthy.

You try, not to Prove but to "Improve!"

The biggest mistake people make when exercising or training is trying to defeat the exercise. People, especially in the west, are always trying to win, even in practice. It doesn’t matter if you are doing Yoga, Pilates or Weight training to tone your body. The Tao says, “If you want to be straight, allow yourself to be crooked”. Translation, “If you want to be strong, you must allow yourself to be weak.” Surrender! Die into it! Your job is only to do your best. The sculpture cannot be harder than the hammer and chisel. Why is it that we cannot allow ourselves to look, appear, let alone “be” weak? Could it be because our entire lives we have been told that if we are weak we are useless, worthless? I remember a saying, “When I am weak, I am strong.” It takes great strength to even be willing to look at our weaknesses and our faults. You have to look at any problem in order to fix it. Why are we so stuck on avoidance and denial of our percieved weaknesses? They are merely cries for love in a necessary area. If you have a cut on your left hand would you put the band-aid on the right hand? It takes great strength to allow yourself to be weak for the right reasons at the right times, or should I say great faith. This is the reason for the sayings, God, the Tao, takes over where you leave off. You just do your best and then rest.

There is a story of a great pianist who was a bout to do a concert. He was preparing back stage with the curtains closed and an anxious audience waiting out front. As the time grew near to start the performance, a small boy snuck away from his parents in the front row. He ran up on stage to the Steinway, the top of the line piano and the prize possession of the star pianist. He began plunking away. At about 6 years old he did his best rendition of “chopsticks”. The crowd heard and gasped especially the parents of the small boy who were beyond embarrassed and now somewhat in a panic rushing to get the boy off stage calling the child frantically. At that moment the pianist emerged from backstage to find the little boy now sitting on his chair playing away, “chopsticks”! The boy’s parents were just about to grab the boy when the pianist signaled for the parents to wait. He told them to leave the boy alone, and proceeded to sit down next to the boy who looked up at him in fear. The pianist patted the young boy on the head and said in a gentle voice, keep playing my child, keep playing. So the little boy continued to play, “chopsticks”! At that moment the great pianist began playing a whole concerto around the little boy’s best effort. The audience was amazed and began to applaud. It sounded great, fantastic. When it was finished, the pianist looked at the little boy, leaned down and whispered to him, “I believe this is when you take your bow! God takes over where you leave off. The universe will support your best effort.

"If you do not do, what you cannot do, you will not do, what you can do!"
This is inspiration too move beyond self -imposed limitation do to fear and laziness.

When you enter a Katango or Zen Body Sculpting class, realize that you literally fail your way to success. Remember, “Trying and failing is not a problem, only failing to try!”The only thing that need be perfect is your intention, your effort.

Is Katango for Me?

First of all, Katango, a WORKOUT for Warriors and Lovers, is Fun, Fun, Fun oh; did I mention it was FUN too? You can say it however you want. You can get your Head, Hieart and Hips in great shape having fun or you can have fun getting in great shape. This class uses inspirational and motivational psychology sometimes in the form of poetry, for instance by Rumi, and other times, quotes and short stories. You actually do strength, balance, flexibility and coordination building exercises “as” you are doing simplified dance and oriental movement arts –based movements. Imagine “accidentally learning to Tango, Mambo, Rumba, African, R&B and Jazz dance while you are exercising. That’s right you actually develop a skill, you actually learn to dance. For those of you who can actually dance, here is a chance to add more passion, soul, and spirit to what you already do and to your life in general. Everybody who does this training learns it’s not what you do but how” you do it. You can improve really the way you move and enhance the way you dance. Everybody is a beginner. Everybody learns something new. No matter how tall or short a flower or plant is in a garden, all plants grow if the soil is good and if they get enough light and nutrients. And they all grow at their own pace without judgment. In fact if someone does not have confidence, the other people in this class will give it to you. Did I mention that because of the format of the movements, it is great cardio?

Can anybody do it? YES! Anybody can do it. Any age any level. It is like cooking on a stove. You have four burners right? On one you simmer, one you light sauté, another you stew, and the last, well if someone wants more, Cajun style baby with hot sauce. “YOU” choose how deep you want to go. The class adjusts to you. The moves adjust to you. I am a guide. I am a mirror. I am here to show you how great, how fantastic, how capable and special you are, and you are. Come in and let me prove it to you. Let me prove you to you! This is like a miracle growth class, miracle development and healing. Everybody grows and everybody heals.
This class cures frozen hip syndrome, you know, pelvic paralysis. You will learn to move as well as they did in “Dirty Dancing” Even Elvis would applaud you!

What if I have an injury? If you have an injury let me know. This class is great for knee, back, shoulder, ankle and especially heart and mind pains. In Florida people came to class still wearing their casts from injuries they incurred outside of class. We restored balance to a woman 60 yrs. old who had had her balance “nerve” cut during and inner ear operation and she was told by her doctor she may have problems even walking. She was able to do balance poses right along side of some of the better Yoga students, better than most. People have cured long standing back and knee problems within a few classes with the stretching and strengthening movements. Don’t worry. Love cures all.

What if I’m going through tough times emotionally? Then this class is perfect for you. People say that they come into class with something bothering them or wearing them down and somehow, magically, something is said to help them get through it or to see their difficulty with new eyes and an open heart. This class is designed to get people through the difficulties of life physically, psychologically emotionally and so on. People have had profound openings and breakthroughs, some to the point that in class, those tears of joy start flowing. The tears are usually met by other students saying, We know it happened to us too and then a flurry of supportive hugs from many others. Oh yes did I mention we LAUGH a lot in class? I admit it was either this, or stand up comedy. I am a clown, an absolute fool who understands what people go through and how tough it is. Love and laughter together are great cures!


With all this other stuff going on, how effective can the class be for my exercise needs? Oh just twice the workout in half the time of any other training method you will ever try. It works as well as you do. On one end it is therapy and healing. On the other end, it has worn out the “instructors and teachers” of Pilates and Yoga in areas of balance, flexibility and body control (core stabilization). The class has worn out gym owners and their instructors. It has floored competitive bodybuilders and aerobic and fitness competitors and instructors. In the same class there are people from 18 to 80, each working through their own thing at their own pace. You choose how deep you want to go and how tough you want it to be. You just tell me and right where you are, we turn up or turn down your burner. You will have a beautiful body with nice lines, proportion and symmetry.

Does it burn a lot of calories and fat? You can burn more calories in fifteen minutes of this than an hour on “any” machine or aerobics class. This includes the elliptical machine, the stair climber, especially the treadmill without the impact on the knees, although the elliptical is low impact and not too bad at all. You can even burn more calories than spinning. I was once a spinning instructor. Spinning is good. In fact their was a spinning class right before my class in Miami and some of the students of the spinning class, still wearing their Polar heart rate monitors decided they want to join in. they were in disbelief that their heart rate went up as much as spinning while doing what to them looked like slow motion exercises. Make no mistake, this class will get you toned and trimmed and fast!


You don’t even notice you’re exercising because of how fun and engaging the class is. You learn to relax, calm your soul. You learn to be and love the real "YOU"!

On Sex

God Loves You they way you make Love ~ Rumi

Oh God! Oh God! Oh God! Does this sound familiar? If it does not, then you may not have experienced what everyone deserves to experience. Of course, you have to say you have. No one wants to know they don’t know about sex. People are always saying to me, “Oh I have or have had great sex”. People tend to take the limits of their experiences and of their field of vision for the limits of the world. Most people, if they are fortunate, have only had a genital orgasm. It does not stop there however. For the true deep experience to take place, your “coming” is only the beginning, it is only a lower energy center or genital experience. Unless you allow the energy to move past the lower you, the earthly you, the animal you, it is a shallow happening, almost an accidental occurence. In reality it is as far as normal sex can go. It is as far as selfish sex can go. It is the best the adult film industry’s pleasure can represent. It appeases at the animal level only. It is unripe, immature. It is acting. You are acting. You have not given yourself totally. Only when you have given yourself to the act totally can God arrive. You may come. Hooray! But it will still be a consolation prize until God arrives and until you arrive at God. What kind of sex is the best sex? Blessed sex, conscious sex, aware sex is the best sex! All else is mutually assisted masturbation!

For those who have understood what “sex” is, what its purpose really is, only one conclusion is possible. It is to bring each other to God. We call it making love. God is love. Love is God. Without consciousness, without the right intention, it is not possible to make love. It is only possible to make a mess. When two “come” together to make love, they are merely vessels . God is being brought to presence. “IF” you are skilled, at making love, you understand what it really is. Love making, like a séance, is an invocation, and through the seance you invite God in. The orgasmic experience, the ecstatic experience occurs because through the experiencer of the orgasm, comes God. This is why it is called “coming”. God comes through the experience of the orgasm. It is the ultimate energy a human being can feel. Everyone “should” be allowed to experience this. At times it is a massive energy rush through the system intense and powerful like a sunami, and other times it is healing, sweet and nourishing like a long wet summer rain . For a lover to go into a situation, without the intention to allow this for another is a great sin. If you love someone or even just greatly care, you would like them to experience the ultimate. God is the ultimate. You can be a doorway to the divine! What a priviledge, an honor, a blessing.

It can be understood, in short like this.The lower centers 1 through 3 are the animal centers. They are the primitive centers. It is only when the orgasmic energies begin to reach the 4th center, the heart center, that sex becomes making love. When the energies of the higher centers meet the energies of the lower centers at the heart, they merge to become love. It is an alchemical process. Before that, it is just sex. God comes arrives through the heart. This is the beginning of the whole body orgasm. The heart is the junction box, the meeting between your higher and lower self, between sex and consciousness, between heaven and earth. It is the junction box however and not the source of the orgasm. The genitals, even the heart are not main source. It is the brain, and the brain is where God enters through the 7th center. This is where the term 7th heaven came from. Only when you feel it all the way into your higher centers, is it a “real” orgasm. Through the 7th center, through consciousness, we guide the animal centers, the first 3 centers to the point that the genitals can stimulate and be stimulated so that we can please and be pleased and transported into states of ecstatic orgasmic bliss, to God!


Blessed is the moment we two enter the Temple together, two faces, one soul ~
Rumi

Sex energy is what keeps you young, vibrant and healthy.

Sex energy is used to increase consciousness and open the 1000 petalled lotus, the unused unopened areas of the brain spoken of by Einstein.

Remember, You don't stop playing because you get old, you get old because you stop playing!
Ever notice how peoples bodies and brains stop functioning as the "Get Old"? Play On! Play On!

Come try out a Katango class to learn more!

KATANGO the "LOVER'S WORKOUT" ~ The Training..Alone or as The Perfect Compliment

This training for the Head, Heart and Hips is enough on its own or as the perfect complement to any and all types of training styles. It is great for those who seek conscious alternative methods for strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardiovascular/aerobic and endurance training. Over the years friends and associates, some of which are highly accredited 10 to 20 year veterans of Yoga and experienced Pilates instructors, as well as their students asked if there were ways to accelerate their practices. They knew I had trained and studied in the Orient as well as the West and looked to a holistic understanding behind techniques rather than random movements triggered by a need to “just do something new”, fill up class time or overcome the boredom of students. They have said it helped them get beyond many sticking points and plateaus. The training corrects posture, ends back pain, develops the hard to isolate lower abdominals and eliminates love handles to go beyond core-training to compliment the work of Joseph Pilates. We open the chakras empowering people energetically, physically, physiologically and psychologically as we inspire and motivate.

Benefits of training also include Anti-Aging, Boosted Metabolim, Immune System and Libido...see other blogs for details.

Strength Training and Body Sculpting- These are non-impact resistance training methods done in a conscious relaxed Yoga, sensual dance and flowing oriental arts formats. The methods build lean, functional, aesthetic proportionate muscles and tighten and tone esp. the female trouble spots such as hips, glutes, thighs, lower abs, waistline and triceps. They are so effective that even hardcore gym goers are able to feel the burn of their muscles while even the de-conditioned beginner is enjoying being gently guided through a modified process of progressive development.

Flexibility- The stretching methods are precise, effective and gentle, go deep into the back, spine, hips and neck areas to relieve longstanding pains, tightness and even healing injuries. They increase flexibility and range of motion even in the most seasoned Yoga and Pilates instructors and students.

Balance- We accelerate development in a direct and methodical manner. Even people who have not studied Yoga find themselves able to hold a warrior three pose in a short time due to progressive innervating and strengthening of the muscles responsible for holding the asana.

Coordination- People often complain, aside from having no balance, that they lack coordination. They say they lack body control and have no rhythm at all. With this method of meditative simplified systematic kata-like dance motions based on tai-chi and chi gong, we can help anybody gain control of their body. They are soon able to move alone or with a partner with confidence and self-assurance. It is fun fat burning with no choreography.

Cardiovascular/ Aerobic/Endurance- Due to the static forms of Yoga, the root of what became the Martial Arts, and Pilates it is difficult to achieve direct fat burning cardiovascular/aerobic and endurance training. Many people have sought gym memberships just for cardio and to burn fat. This training involves relaxed non-impact cardio/aerobic movements done in a meditative state that can burn more calories and fat than spinning, an elliptical machine and far more than could ever be burned on a treadmill.

Activity Does not Lead to Productivity

Activity does not lead to productivity, nor does practice make perfect. If you’re practicing the wrong thing, you’ll end up perfectly wrong. It makes no difference how fast you run if you’re running in the wrong direction. First direction then effort! First aim, and then shoot the arrow! It is simple. Like Alice in Wonderland when she asks the Cheshire Cat what road to take and it asks, where are you going? She says she does not know to which the Cat replies, then it does not matter which way you go! This is true in all things.

The Two Doctors

Being overweight, smoking, drinking drugs etc. are never the problem, they are “symptoms” of problems. They are “never” the main issue.

Now the story
There were two doctors walking past a construction site. It seems we are all under construction so this is a relevant example for all of us.

So these two doctors while walking past the site notice two men on the ground writhing in pain. They asked what was wrong and the men say they had stepped on screws. It was obvious something had to be done.

The first doctor offered to just give anesthesia, to numb the pain. He offered, as most do, to cure the symptom but not the problem itself. He did this because he knew that it would be a lot of pain to remove the screw. He also realized that if he had to do something that painful the men would not like him. He would be called cruel and insensitive. You know how important it is to be liked, even at the expense of the truth?

The second doctor said to the second man that he understood and felt for the man that there would be great discomfort in removing the screw even with anesthesia. He understood though that if he did not remove the screw that the man could both bleed to death and or die from the eventual infection that would set in. He informed the man of this in the most compassionate and loving way he could. The second man was rare, he agreed to have the screw removed. He agreed to have the root of the difficulty taken out.

What type of person are you?

What is the teaching of this story?

The teaching is that if someone truly cares for you, they will do what is needed to help you improve, even at the expense of your not liking them.
That -Love is a pat on the back, and a boot in the butt when needed!
That- Unless we get rid of the ego we’re screwed!

My teacher over in China, as he was training me, worked me to the point where I asked him if he was trying to kill me. He said “YES”. He said the old me had to die in order for the new me to be born. Besides, the old you seems to get you in quite a bit of trouble. It seems to keep you quite unhappy at times, so why would you want to hold onto the person that believes and does what brings you
unhappiness?

True Power EMPOWERS

True Power
EMPOWERS

Making people feel special, important, rather than bad or degrading them because in reality we want to feel more important, is how we can truly see just how evolved we are. We are each others' mirror. How we treat others, beyond those we are close to or we want or need something from, the stranger to the street person, is a reflection of who and what we really are more so than they are. How do you treat your waitress or waiter when you eat out? Are you a pleasure to “be” served? Everyone we meet is our mirror. Why do people like mirrors in carnivals that make them look thin? Whatsoever makes or allows people to feel or be better, as they are, is divine. In the hands of the wise, in the face of Love or God, everyone is beautiful.

If you would be God-like, make or allow others to feel special and important. It is simple arithmetic, you plus or times the person or situation equals the outcome. We are not on this planet to find love, but “TO BE LOVE”! We must become what we wish to attract! Hafiz says it well, “Forget everything and anything anybody says or does. All they are saying with everything they say and do is LOVE ME!" By the way, this is true for you too!

Try spreading a little Love, Light and compassion today!