Rebellious Wellness

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2008-09-21T15:59:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the

REBELLIOUS WELLNESS
Web~Log

Rebellious Wellness is exercise for the Evolving

It is for those who wish to train to live and love
Deeply, Consciously, Intelligently & Passionately
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I invite you to improve the way you live and love by assimilating

God and Sex through Science

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I invite you to practice living and loving as conscious arts

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I invite you to find answers to go beyond the outdated beliefs

concerning religion, sexuality, health & fitness

.
I invite you to you move beyond the unproductive

habits and behaviors

that have not allowed you to be who and how you want to be and feel

Younger, Stronger, Smarter and Sexier

I invite you to witness and experience

The Earthiness of God

& the Holiness of Sex

Thank You For Your Interest

Please Read On...

e-mail me at shadeauxdansir@hotmail.com !

2008-09-21T09:34:00.000-07:00

Hip~Gnosis
Pronounced hypnosis

Imagine moving with someone so deeply, so connected,
that you just get lost in the undulating ecstasy

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Imagine dancing on the edge of release looking into each other’s eyes

knowing one mis-movement would break the spell

of orbiting ecstasy sending you both plummeting

into orgasmic oblivion

Now imagine each subtle breath between you was like a hurricane,
each kiss a soft wild wet whirlpool that
devours you into each other

This is obviously something shared in more private intimate moments.
Learning to move so you can move with another in this way
takes practice.

A practice disguised as a dance, one concealed in exercise .

A practice cleverly camouflaged and perfected in public to be lived in private.

That practice is called HIP~ GNOSIS
my newest workshops and classes
coming this fall!

Gnosis, in Greek means mystical knowledge or understanding of.

The common hip movements of our intimate encounters have not and will not produce the deep releases our inner knowing needs. The common hip movements have not, in the 10,000 years past, and unless you want or have time to wait 10,000 years into the future for your ecstasy, produced the rapturous results you seek and deserve.

HIP~GNOSIS unites and invites God and Science into the Bedroom to make your Kingdom Come “NOW” in an explosive ecstasy that will make the Big Bang Theory seem like popcorn

HIP~ GNOSIS finally addresses an area of our lives that everybody does, but wants to do better. Your hips move you and if they move well can move your lover as well. They can transport you around a dance floor or in intimate moments to distant stars and beyond without leaving your bedroom. Everybody wants to be better at love making. Most of us are afraid to admit we don’t “really” know how. We try to “act” sexy but acting and actually being good at sex are not the same thing. Sexiness can arouse but not fulfill a woman. She needs “All the right inside moves!”

Those moves require both precision and passion.

Moves you can only learn from HIP GNOSIS!

Practice Simplified Dance Movements of
Tango

Mambo

Flamenco

Arabic/Indian (Snake Hips)
Reggae

Afro-Cuban

African

Work is done “FULLY CLOTHED” standing, seated and on the mat.

“The Hips Don’t Lie!”

See Deep Muscles, Deep Moves, Deep Feelings blog for more...

If you have any questions at all
and there are no dumb questions except the ones not asked,
please help me to help you.
E-mail me at shadeauxdansir@hotmail.com!

2008-09-20T12:46:00.000-07:00

How does Hip~Gnosis help?

Unique Stretches

Provide deep yet gentle releases and openings throughout the pelvic region and spine that have been shown to not only relieve both physical and emotional pain, but prepare the body to receive full pleasure more deeply. Improved hip and spine mobility and stability free up more neuro-pathways to carry more intense signals of pleasure to your brain where it can fully take in the orgasmic process.
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Gross and Net Orgasmic Response

The possibility for orgasms to occur is one thing.
The extent to which they permeate your body and you actually feel them is another.
There are gross and net sums for your experience of orgasms. The availability of nerves and neuro-pathways to transport the signals to your brain determines the extent to which you will experience full orgasmic onslaught. A stressed, anxious or tense nervous system will tax your orgasm and you will neither feel nor receive it’s full potency.

NOTHING WILL GET YOUR HIPS INTO SHAPE FASTER
than this Unique Deep Stretching, Strengthening & Stabilizing of the
Lower Abdominals,
Waistline
Hips,
Legs
Back and Spine
that work muscles that even Dancers, Yoga / Pilates instructors, Martial Artists and therapists are surprised they could and in ways they never imagined they could.

Work is done “FULLY CLOTHED” standing, seated and on the mat.

If you have any questions at all

and there are no dumb questions except the ones not asked,

please help me to help you.E-mail me at shadeauxdansir@hotmail.com!

2008-09-13T14:29:00.000-07:00

DEEP MUSCLES
DEEP MOVES
DEEP FEELINGS

It takes Deep Muscles to make Deep Moves to create Deep Feelings.
The sensual movements that hypnotize, tantalize and move you and your lover are no accident. A great lover like a great dancer moves deliberately, passionately. The muscles that allow these movements must be trained the same way.

So what are those muscles, where are they located and what do they do? Like most good things they are buried beneath the surface. People tend to work on the muscles that improve their appearance not performance. They sweeten the frosting but the cake beneath remains bitter. So I teach how to make the cake, the frosting, the whole person and the whole experience sweeter. This is the basis for all my teachings, completeness, integrity and congruence. They are not meant for shallow people to see or understand. This is why Jesus spoke in parables. The muscles and the moves I am talking about will make your Kingdom Come for sure, and often, as well as your lover’s. These, among others, are the results you can expect at home from the movements practiced in class.

If people do not wish to go deeper it is better for them to attend the myriad of superficial classes for the masses. Sexuality is to be taken seriously. It's higher rewards are for those who are willing to go deeper.

The MOTION of the OCEAN
and what creates it!

HIP CHASSIS
Your hip chassis is really no different from that of a car. The better your steering, the better your chances of driving each other wild. Now is when you choose to remain basic transportation or become a Ferrari, a Porsche, a Vette. You can choose to become a luxury lover like a Benz, a Jag or a BMW. It's time to upgrade your chassis, to upgrade the handling of your hips. Anybody who knows anything about love making, at all knows it is all about precision. Excuse the expression but it is like, not scratching but massaging an internal itch.
Up, down, left, right, right there, AAAAH!

And anybody who has ever scratched or had an itch scratched knows that the itch is usually in a very precise, acute yet highly sensitive area. Wink, Wink! In the movie “On Any Given Sunday”, a football flick, Al Pacino says, “Football is a game of inches.” I tell you now; making love is a game of “inch”! To a woman, that inch feels like the miracle mile!

It's not all about precision though. It is also about passion, rhythm, texture and tempo. It is about soul, heart, spirit, mind and last but not least body.

LOWER ABS
The lower abdominals allow you to forward rock, an upward lifting of your pelvic region.
For the woman this provides better access to her happy spot, wink, wink!
For the man, the pelvic rock will help him rub her the right way!

The lower abdominals are the muscles responsible for the “Motion of the Ocean.” If you get these muscles to work the way they are supposed to you could be in for some flash floods, rip tides, undulating undercurrents, wonderful whirlpools, and sensual tsunamis. Do keep a towel handy!

The obliques and deep transverse abdominals allow better handling and maneuverability. They allow for angle adjustment and repositioning for those “tough to reach places” and tough to hold positions.

GLUTES & LEGS
The muscles of the glutes and legs provide lift, tilt and the pelvic power to move in and hold the strong deeper maneuverings. The inner and outer thighs, and especially the rear and side legs are an intricate part of the intimate lateral movements.

BACK & SPINE
The back and spine are necessary, not only for moving the body better but moving energy better through the body. It is the highway to health. If no energy is moved through you and your beloved a great opportunity has been lost. This holds true for increasing your longevity and the longevity of the relationship.

In Classes & Workshops
To safely facilitate your transformation, we use ultra deep hip, abdominal and spine opening stretches, strengtheners and stabilizers in a non-threatening, non-competitive, non-judgmental environment.
The stretching and strengthening of these areas can relieve if not eliminate back and pelvic pain.

We simplify movements of Tango, Mambo, Arabic, African Dance and Martial Arts to make it easy for you to improve the way you move.

This is, simply put ,a great, non impact cardio, deep strength building, body sculpting class that even Dancers, Yoga/Pilates and other instructors say works like no other they have experienced.

It is a practice.

It's Fun

YES IT'S FULLY CLOTHED!!!

Come try a class soon!
Come try a class Free!

I do not at all in any way consider sex a joke or a plaything although playfulness is important.

If you have any questions at all
and there are no dumb questions except the ones not asked,
please help me to help you.

E-mail me at shadeauxdansir@hotmail.com!

2008-09-13T13:05:00.000-07:00

Love in a Peaceful World
The Wishing Well

Some years ago Paul Rodgers sang with a group named Free, which we still aren’t, Independence Day and all. He sang a song called Wishing Well, which we’re still drowning in. The song talked about Love in a Peaceful World, which we still don’t have.

WHY NOT?

Enough of, and with, all of this stuff about spiritual oneness. Enough of this union with and oneness with the universe. How is this at all possible? How is oneness possible with the universe when there is division within you? You are divided within yourself. You are scared to death of the two most important and deep aspects of yourself and both are necessary for your ultimate happiness. Both are necessary for your health and longevity. Right within you, right now because “someone else”, “somebody else”, not even you, someone who also did not understand, you are afraid, very afraid of both God and Sex! Taboo, Taboo, Taboo!!! God and Sex are the parents of Love! Lust energy plus Light energy equals love.

"Division is the beginning of all conflict", J Krishnamurti

What is the separation, the division I speak of? Right now, again because someone else’s misunderstanding thousands of years ago (from people who thought the world was flat), and *#@$ ed up beliefs now (from people who's world is flat), you can’t talk even about God! You can’t talk about Sex! The Creator, what was used to create you and what is supposed to re-create and renew you, you can’t talk about. You want love and peace in the world and do not even have it within yourself. Each and every one of us is the seed and root of Peace on Earth. Do you expect sweet nectarines to grow from bitter lemon seeds? World peace is an individual effort. In-divid-ual!

P.S. How can the world go green when everyone's got the blues?

First of all let's be straight.
You do not have any beliefs, at least none of your own.
You believe someone else’s beliefs.
They are recycled like most things nowadays.
They are hand-me –downs from your parents, priests and politicians!
Have you ever really looked? I am not saying that because you were pissed off at Christianity and Catholicism so you became a Buddhist or a Sufi. Lateral move! You switched polarities.

Everybody in the west acts Eastern and everybody in the East acts western.

Now we 've got Yoga, they got Burger King!

I say you are not Free because with Freedom comes responsibility.
Are you getting this? I am saying you don’t have or want religious or sexual freedom because you do not want the responsibility of either. Talk about performance anxiety, it must be difficult to go to bed with all those people all at once, your parents, the priest, friends and your lover too! They are all in your head when you go to bed. Even you are judging you!
You can’t believe in what you want nor love how you want for the same reason.
You can’t believe in what you are.

You are God!
You are Sex!
You are Love!

and All are One!

You are One

and one with

the One!

If you do not understand both God & Sex, you can not understand either!!!

You can not understand or have Love!!!

You can not understand, have or be yourself !!!

Your Life , Your Choice!

All religions and beliefs were created at a time when those above did not believe those below could comprehend what those above themselves could not understand. They were designed based on the outward actions of people rather than an inner understanding of people which is now possible through neurology, biology and physiology. Even early psychology and philosophy could only go by what was outwardly seen. They had to come up with something, some way to get people to behave, so they did,
Heaven (the carrot) and Hell (the whipping stick).

If you have any questions at all
and there are no dumb questions except the ones not asked,
please help me to help you
E-mail me at shadeauxdansir@hotmail.com !

Billy Sunday ~ Six on Sex Podcast

2008-09-12T11:08:00.000-07:00

click on above

I invite you to have a listen to a great opportunity I was given by Dr. Claudia Six to speak on the subject of Erotic Integrity.

Please have a listen!

Thank You,
Billy Sunday

If you have any questions at all
and there are no dumb questions except the ones not asked,
please help me to help you,
E-mail me at shadeauxdansir@hotmail.com !

2008-09-12T10:04:00.000-07:00

I F

…you are willing to listen,

if you are ready for the truth,

ready to really look DEEPER,

much, much DEEPER

I will,

in all humility

help you understand what

The Rabbi, the Priest and the Pastor

do not know about God

and the Monk and Spiritual leaders

do not know about Spirituality!

The Porn Star, the Prostitute and Strippers do not know about Sex!

Dancers, Yoga & Pilates instructors, Therapists, Fitness trainers, Athletes, Martial Artists, do not know about working with the body, your body!

Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Psychotherapists, Counselors and Therapists do no know about your mind, heart, soul & spirit!

How to get physically, psychologically, emotionally, romantically and sexually

in the best shape of your life!!!

and help you understand why you think, feel, act, are in the shape you are in

& how you can begin changing that to how you want it to be

starting right NOW!

Each time I am honored and blessed with your presence!

Why?

How?

REBELLIOUS WELLNESS

is the first to bring them

all together,

all at once,

all in one training

“process and practice”

in a non competitive, non judgemental, nurturing environment!

Unless you are the type of person who only fills one tire with air,

Come in and learn how to be younger, stronger, smarter, sexier and stress free!

Gain strength, flexibility, coordination, balance, rhythm and endurance.

Gain heart, soul, spirit, passion and perseverance and be inspired!

This I bow & vow to you!!!

NAMASTE

Oh, did I mention it's FUN!!! ?

If you have any questions at all
and there are no dumb questions except the ones not asked,
please help me to help you,
E-mail me at shadeauxdansir@hotmail.com !

Schedule of Classes

2008-09-11T10:06:00.000-07:00

KATANGO

Are You Fit For Love?

MASONIC TEMPLE

18 Corte Madear Ave., Mill Valley

(across from fire station)

Monday Evenings at 6:30

BAY WEST BALLROOM
1133 E. Francisco Blvd.
San Rafael CA.
415.457.4619

Tue. 5:15 PM

NAUTILUS OF SAUSALITO
3020 Bridgeway
Sausalitio CA

415.331.3020

Wed. 6:30 PM

KATANGO in the Marin IJ

2008-03-31T16:01:00.000-07:00

Thank You all for how you participate and share in the classes. It is because of you that this movement to help people find, free and express themselves, to create themselves anew, is getting known. The Marin IJ has published an article and I am grateful to you and them for this occurrence.

Here is the link to it online. It was published Monday the 31st of March 2008.

www.marinij.com/lifestyles/ci_8753094

On behalf of Rebellious Wellness, as I say in class, I thank you for your Spirit, Energy and Perseverance! Please help me to continue to help you and others be who and what they really are, amazing, limitless, divine, ~ Love itself!

I invite you to invite people in whomever they are, however they are, wherever they are on their path, they are welcome. I truly believe there is a benefit for them whether it be physically to improve their health by getting in shape or out of pain!

Maybe they need a spiritual recharge to overcome difficulties they face, relieve or prevent stress?

Maybe they need to prepare themselves for a new relationship, deepen or make stronger the one they're in, or recover from one that has ended?

Maybe they need to improve the relationship they have with themselves, to learn to appreciate and love themselves?

Maybe It’s you too?

I also proudly present the Workout 4 Warriors as a counterpart for Katango the Lover’s Workout. Right now it is at Gold’s Gym, Corte Madera Monday 7:45pm and Friday 5:20pm.

Also Soul Stretch and De-Stress is coming soon!

Take a look at the blogs about these classes.

E-Mail me with Questions at shadeauxdansir@hotmail.com

Again,
Thanks and See you in class!
Billy Sunday

2008-02-29T08:46:00.000-08:00

REAL MEN

Dance

“with”,

not

"like"

a

Woman

Guys, Guys, Guys, you’re killin’ me!
What is this, I hear you’re afraid to learn to dance because you don’t want to look or be considered a fairy, a sissy? What about Jerry Rice and Emmit Smith who have 6 Super Bowl Rings and a few NFL records between them, Dancin' with the Stars? I guess you didn’t know that Bruce Lee was the Cha Cha Champion of Hong Kong! Maybe you didn’t see “Dragon”, the Bruce Lee Story. Remember the fight scene at “the dance.” I guess you don’t remember Ali “Floatin’ like a Butterfly, Stingin’ like a Bee”? Didn't you catch Roadhouse, Next of Kin and Dirty Dancing? Every woman in America, maybe the world, has a copy of Dirty Dancing and Ghost stashed away somewhere, you know like you 've got your stash of other things? Trust me they know! What did you miss Banderas in Assassins, Desperado, Once Upon A Time in Mexico and then Take the Lead? Check out the Tango scene. As ZZ Top would say, "She's got Legs!" Oh yeah! My friends, those are some legs.

Every woman and I mean every woman likes and wants a man who can dance. They want a guy who can dance with swagger, bravado, power, passion, intensity and fluidity. They want a man who can lead them, guide them. It has implications that go way beyond a dance floor. They figure if you can dance vertically then horizontally… ya pickin’ up what I’m layin’ down here? And If you can’t move, and can’t move in rhythm with’ em, basically they’re givin’ you what’s called a mercy, “#@%*”, well you know….!

Okay let’s get direct with this. Pull no punches, throw not stones. I am not in any way degrading women or challenging your mentality. Ok maybe I’m challenging your mentality, but just a little. Here it is. If you’re goin’ fishing, would you rather go fishing where there are more fish or sharks? If you’re hunting deer, no offense Bambi or (“Rudolph, but hey I’m still waiting for my Aurora light night race track and it’s been thirty years, come on! What are you holdin’ a market share on the night light thing? Ever heard of Halogen?)

Sorry, back to the deer thing, if your hunting deer do you want to want to hunt where there are more deer or mountain lions and wolves? Duh! If you can dance you’re a lone wolf, a lone wild cat amongst the deer, the lone lion amongst the gazelle and antelope. You’re a rogue shark amongst the school of red snapper and you’re the head master! You’re rare. You can do for them what even a guy with money can’t do.

For centuries, millenniums, they have been tolerating us. First one gives birth to us then they gotto baby us in bed in the love lottery, the romance roulette, hopin’, we “might” accidentally “rub them the right way”, we might hit the spot that makes them hot, the good spot long enough and strong enough for somethin’ to happen. Whew! Damn! But they didn’t want to hurt our feelings, our egos. This is like your opponent taking a dive. You’ve heard of the Phantom Punch in the Ali vs. Liston II fight. Women have been having phantom orgasms for years. They’ve been passin’ you through school for a grade you didn’t quite get. Know what I mean.

If all is fair in love and war, how can you claim victory if someone keeps throwin’ the fight to make you feel good? There’s no conquest. That ain’t victory. All you got out of it was a genital sneeze and a gold star on your fore head for a “nice try” cowboy!

No self-respecting man wants to even "think" his woman has been earning an Academy Award for being Romantically Bored but this is what's been happening. Hey I was a stripper. I teach classes of mostly women ranging in age from 21 to 81. I’VE HEARD!!! They’ve given me the dirty little truth and not oxy wash orange, simple green, or pumice wash this one out or away.

Now I'm not saying this is true in all cases. There are a few men who care enough to learn and may already do what is needed to please their wife or girlfriend. (Notice it does not say girlfriend-S!) I just want you to entertain the thought that there is or at least could be more! If so guys, wouldn't you like to be able to do more for the woman you love?

Again I’ll say it for you. Women love men who can dance.
In Dance, your purpose is to learn to move,
to dance “WITH” even “FOR”,
NOT “Like” a woman.

So I’ve deconstructed and simplified it, no-choreography.
Even rhythm is easy to pick up with the my system.
Ever wonder why it's difficult for us guys to dance? Aside from our obvious flexibility problem, did you know testosterone won’t allow us to follow or repeat sequences well? Estrogen yes testosterone no. That’s why we don’t multi-task well. If we did we would have had a problem hunting years ago. Could you imagine? We come home from the hunt and go sorry honey, yeah I had a buck in my sights, would have feed us for days, but got I distracted by the pretty butterflies! You would have loved them, so colorful. Not!

There are some things a man just ain’t spoda do and ways he’s just not meant to move. It just ain’t happenin’! It just ain’t right! Men just do not dance with their butt up.

Ya’ don’t advertise what ain’t for sale.

The sign says,

“NO Deliveries in Rear”, “Exit Only”. End of Story!

Again, you increase your social value and worth by being able to dance “with” even “for” but “not” like a woman!

Guys dig Triple H for fighting.
I’m telling you for lovin, women like Quadruple H!

They like a man who can use his Heart, Head, Hands and yes Hips!

You gotto learn to do a dance to make a little love, then you can become

a master of

the "Bed Post Boogie"!

Thanks for tunin' in.

Check out some other blogs like Workouts 4 Warriors, ( class now at Gold's Corte Madera),

or on how to get rid of stress and pain.

Tell your dogs, your boys and your buds about this site!

2008-02-20T21:43:00.000-08:00

When is it not time?

To me Christmas, Valentines Day, Easter, Thanksgiving, Memorial Day are all excuses for what, if we are conscious, aware, “alive”, we would all do all the time!

Christmas: When is it not a time to give?
Why wait until Christmas to give? Why make a list and run each other over each year to complete the checklist, I mean Christmas list? The greatest gift you can give at Christmas or any time is presence? Be present for people. Make them feel worthy of your attention, not just people you know, those you don’t, those who need. This is the Christ Consciousness. This is what it is really all about. Whatsoever you do to the least, that you do unto “me”, unto you! Give and you will be given, remember?
Here’s the great secret, the great mystery. The gift is in the giving. What an honor to “be able, to be in a position to” give. It’s the only thing that let you know that the cancer of greed has not possessed taken over your soul.

Valentine’s Day: When is it not a time to love and be romantic?
Why are we so afraid of love? Why are we so afraid of intimacy?
The words lover, intimacy, romance and sex are feared, F-E-A-R-E-D!
Why, because all mean a loss of the false self. The barriers have to come down.

Our lie, our fallacies, our beliefs, all of it, the trash has got to go. Our poker faced froniting needs to be "Royally Flushed!"

How warped is our thinking when it is better respected to plant a punch and kick a kiss? I have lived and studied the Martial Arts in China, in Japan, was taught boxing from 12yrs old by my uncle who was a 3rd in the world ranked fighter and golden gloves winner, translation, I respect the arts. People, now a days because of over training one and under training the other have a better chance of landing a punch that will kill than a kiss that will swoon.

Isn’t it better and beautiful to think of that someone special? Isn’t it beautiful to think of doing something for someone you care for, to lose yourself in the process and the reverie? I know as a man to see a woman’s face light up when she receives a gift or flowers, especially as a surprise. (Valentine’s Day is kind of expected you know!) Gentlemen she would prefer to be caught off guard, surprised!
Find creative ways to give to each other. Create opportunities to give to each other. Love and Romance are kept alive by the mystery that they are. Give, Give, Give, and Live, Live, Live! Funny how they rhyme, huh?
Everybody dies but not everyone lives. GIVE!!!

Easter: When is it not a time to be reborn?

The Sufi’s say die before you die! If you save your life you lose it and if you lose your life you save it! ~ “J” The meaning, lose the false conditioned programmed, you know, the you “they” say you are, they want you to be and “Be who you are, who you really truly want to be, need to be”! The Sufi’s say, “No one gets into Heaven without Crucifixion!” They mean the false self. We hold on to such junk as humans. The best thing that could happen to someone is identity theft. Let them have it. You don’t need it. Your identity is not for you, it is created for society. Hey, if they are willing to steal your identity, hell, they should be willing to pay the rest of the credit card bill, the mortgage, car payment and life insurance that goes with your SS# as well! Imagine being reborn without all of that stuff too? Not bad huh?

Thanksgiving: When is it not a time to give thanks?
The attitude of gratitude and appreciation. What do you have to be thankful for? If you are reading this, let’s start with the fact that you can see, even if it’s through glasses or contact lenses. If you can see, oh yes, you’re alive. Yes that is another reason. Let’s just go back to the most simple of simple things, you can breathe. My teachers used to say, “No one pays attention to their breathing until they can’t!”

Memorial Day: When is it not a time to remember ?

How can we forget those we love, those who have died, those we love who have died? When is it not a time to remember yourself, your true self? Start with you. Remember yourself because you are the root of everything. To be alive is to be reverent. Remember!

2008-02-19T23:58:00.000-08:00

Ending the Pain

Back, Neck, Knees and Hips

The process necessary for curing back, neck, knee and hip pain are quite simple. I know this because it has worked, not only for hundreds, including my students, friends, strangers or anyone who is “willing” to listen. Back pain in general is terrible, just getting up, sitting down or getting in and out of the car is difficult. Headaches, often caused by tight neck muscles, are also not so fun. Sore knees and hips, especially after injuries, the difficulties walking are problems. The worst is the “anticipation” of the pain before you have to move. I as a dancer and an athlete have experienced all of the above. I was told many times I would eventually need surgery in both knees and most likely my lower back. I joke if I were a horse they would have shot me!

How do I avoid surgery?

You avoid surgery and end your pain with surgically precise stretching and strengthening provided in my classes. You could try Yoga and Pilates which I think are great. The asanas and movements are helpful in many ways. The ancient Hindus obviously including Patanjali and even the modern day Yoga masters such as K.S. Iyengar (Iyengar) and John Friend (Anusara) created extremely helpful methods for spinal and body alignment as well as training for heart and mind. Joseph Pilates was also a genius, way ahead of his time. The Rebellious Wellness Katango and Stretch and Strengthening Classes (according to many of my students who also study Yoga and Pilates) pick up where they leave off by going beyond the more general postures and moves that “indirectly" help in Yoga and Pilates, to more directly, precisely and accurately affect the muscle or joint in the way you need them to in order to isolate and eliminate your pain.

Most training and equipment just does half the job. They relieve pain momentarily. Yoga is great for flexibility but is not as potent a way to develop strength. On the other hand strength training and bodybuilding, though great for stabilizing the joints and skeletal structure, usually tightens and stabilizes muscles in the wrong positions. You may look better but not function well. Most athletic injuries are due to tight muscles and joints.

The Stretching gets you out of pain,
the Strengthening keeps you out of pain!

But what causes the pain to begin with? How does pain happen? Why does pain happen? Usually in back pain and neck, you have a vertebrae being compacted and pressed on a disc. A disc, now compressed, presses on a nerve. A nerve being pressed on equals ouch! The same thing pretty much happens with joint pain. Either a muscle is too tight or a muscle is too weak to support the joint or both, so the joint grinds and presses on the nerve. The process is simple to relieve, cure and prevent further pain and suffering in both cases.

You simply stretch the muscles
that is causing the compacted vertebrae,
that is pressing down on the disc,
that is pressing down on the nerve to alleviate the pain.

Then you strengthen the corresponding and muscles
responsible for keeping the vertebrae from being compacted,
that keeps the vertebrae from pressing on the disc,
that keep the disc from pressing on or (pinching) the nerve that
makes you go ouch. Translation, No more ouch, much more aah!
Did I mention it’s a similar process for joint and other pains as well?

A couple of other examples of why both stretching and strengthening are absolutely necessary:

If you are flexible you may be able to reach a package on the floor but not be strong enough to pick it up.

If you are strong, you may be able to pick up that same package but because of a tight back, hips and hamstrings you may not be able to even reach the package.

The unique simple method of stretching and strengthening that you will learn in class to do “yourself” anywhere anytime to get you out of and keep you out of pain has been called by those who have tried it, nothing short of miraculous. The surprised look on their faces after they get up and the pain is gone is only surpassed by the pleasured satisfied face they make when they are actually doing the stretches. There are great simple stretching and strengthening exercises for the spine which is important because all of the energy of the body flows through it.

In China, I spent time with a Shaolin monk and other Martial Artists. When they practiced acrobatics, my God, these people took tumbles and falls twisting their bodies in ways that the body is just not meant to bend, ending up in crumbled heaps on the ground. A few days later or even the next day, there they were, as you will be quickly, back in action again. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I had to know and learn how they recovered so fast. What I saw amazed me. They showed me methods of stretching, strengthening and massage, even self-massage, that worked so well so fast that I was able to overcome “all” of my injuries and pains.

Now over 40, I am not only pain free but able to do things I couldn’t do when I was 20.

Yeah, I'm the "old guy" in the picture on the website! Don't ever quit on yourself!

There is hope for us "older guys"and gals!

Here's a nifty way to relieve your Lumbar

You come fix your back Jack

Here's your new plan Jan

Feel like a younger boy Roy

Just listen to me

You just gotta trust Gus

Don't need to adjust much

Here's your new key Lee

to get yourself pain Free!

See you in class!

First Class is also Free!

2008-02-19T10:44:00.000-08:00

The Perfect Pilates and Yoga

Compliment and Companion

Why are Katango and the Stretch and Dee-Stress class the perfect compliment to Yoga and Pilates practitioners? Because both classes provide the necessary aerobic, cardio and deeper strengthening benefits especially in the hips, glutes, lower abs (deep core) and legs that are not focused on in even the more athletic Vinyasa, Ashtanga and Power Yogas. This takes over where these methods leave off. You can view them as more movement based “spicy” Yoga or Pilates or both “kicked up” a notch, or two!

What is great about the classes are the way they provide the brain with more oxygen and blood flow of aerobic and cardio in relaxed, meditative non-impact, fat burning movements that keep you in your flow. These moves actually allow you to burn more calories in 15 minutes than 45 minutes in a treadmill, or should I say “dreadmill”. The movements help you to develop “skills” and even athletic abilities rather than fruitless motions of an elliptical or other even more potent cardio machines. All this while burning at least 2x the calories and fat of those.

Try a class Free and you’ll see!

The fluid, soulful oxygenating and blood pumping movements help you develop great balance, coordination, strength and flexibility. They improve your ability to flow between asanas in your Yoga and be more precise and aware of your body movements in Pilates. How do I know this? You can ask the Yoga and Pilates instructors that currently do or have tried the classes. Most realize how important it is to add and apply not only movement but movement to rhythm to their practice. They say it takes them out of the box.

We focus on hip, spine and chakra opening, joint positioning and alignment. There is an in-depth focus on the deeper core strengthening and stability benefits of the martial arts influence which many do not realized evolved from Yoga.

The dance movements of Katango are simple, simple, simple. There is no complex choreography. You first learn to move, then move freely. This is a practice. You come to improve not to prove. The purpose of the movements are to develop coordination, body awareness and the ability to move, and move well in rhythm and ultimately to even mirror with a partner if you desire.

So what are the benefits?

1. Fat Burning Aerobic & Cardio plus Strength training and deeper core training in a relaxed meditative non-impact way that spares the bones and joints.

2. More necessary oxygen to the brain extended beyond what is provided by, and to improve your performance in, even the more athletic Yoga and Pilates' classes.

3. Not only stress relief but Prevention

All levels welcomed and invited.

Come in and try a class FREE!

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Thanks for visiting!

2008-02-17T14:31:00.000-08:00

You cannot love what you do not understand!

Let’s say you have a plant. You say you "love" the plant. Since you love the plant so much, you are going to give it a lot of water. In doing so, you give that plant more water than it needs. Now the leaves turn yellow and the plant dies. You say, but I loved that plant look how much water I gave it. The problem is you didn’t understand the plant, so how could you love it the way it “needs” to be loved?

To much or too little anything create imbalance. Space and affection are both needed according to the particular needs of that particular plant or "person shall we say".

Image provided by The Potting Shed of Fairfax CA

2008-02-17T14:25:00.000-08:00

PERFECT

A disciple once approached a master saying they were looking for the perfect teacher.
The master replied,"So funny you should say that, I am looking for the perfect student!"
My teachings will not fail you though you may fail them and thus yourself.

2008-02-16T09:47:00.000-08:00

What is a Lover?

Rumi says, “A lover is one who burns with a fiery passion.”

Do you really love? First let me say that love is what you are, just as an apple tree produces apples. What you do happens because of it. In life, what you do not love, you will not sweat for, cry for, bleed for, die for! A lover is one who goes deep into the understanding and awareness. In that going deeper, they rise higher.

The saying goes, “In order for the branches of a tree to reach to the Heavens, the very roots must go to Hell.” A skyscraper must have a deep strong foundation. A tree is only as strong as its root.
You cannot expect shallow people to have a deep relationship!

You cannot have anything deep if you dig a hole here, then there, then there and then there. Forget about it. The most you will have is shallow understanding of others, yourself and even more shallow relationships. If you don't go deep you've sold yourself cheap!

If there is no love involved, you cannot make love, you can only make a mess! ~BSM II

Let me be clear, very clear, painfully clear.

A lover is not a sex partner. A sex partner is not a lover.

A sex partner is, um, well, oh yeah, a sex partner.

A lover is someone with whom you share,

deep thoughts, feelings, intimate moments, dreams,

fears and hold on there's something else.

Wait a minute I'll get it soon,

(Stupid me you'ld think I'ld know huh?)

oh yes, got it, "LOVE"!

Wow, imagine that?

(Duh!)

Am I saying that in an intimate relationship monogamy is best?
In my opinion and from my obseravtion of relationships, "Absolutely, Yes I am!" There is a saying that if you look into a mirror long enough it begins to look into you. In an intimate relationship you truly become each other’s mirror. You reflect things back at one and other that you may not have, and most often would not like to have seen. This is where the greatest opportunity for growth comes in. You are literally each other’s doorway to divinity.

To an extent, everyone you meet is your mirror. The truest of mirrors, however, is the one you have an intimate relationship with. This is because there is an emotional tie there. In a poly-amorous relationship you can run. You can hide. You feel safe, but, you not only have “not” made a commitment to another, you have not made a commitment to yourself and your own growth. A real relationship is one in which two become one, in and with the “One”! That is the intent! If there is no way to make it work, so be it.

You may have to take time outs from time to time to regroup, but the intention is still the same. Relationships first take work within the self, the individual, only then can they be useful for the couple. Just like a player or musician, you must practice your individual skills before you can be of use to the team or group.

You must constantly develop understanding, compassion and empathy, awareness. This is also true for you. Everything you see, think feel and do is filtered through you. If you are a dirty mirror what can you reflect properly?

The purpose of entering into a relationship with anyone is to allow them to be better than they were before you came in contact with them. You may be in an intimate relationship with them with the intent of staying forever, but if you are not growing together, you cannot continue going together. Otherwise, as I always say, it will be like two people who can’t swim jumping in the water who eventually us each other as life preservers.

I am talking about constant movement toward a higher way of being. As Khalil Gibran says, “Let their be separateness in your togetherness. You must be like two pillars holding up the roof of a temple.” In life and love, you must aspire to higher. The Sufi’s say forget about talking about Heaven, build the ladder to it.

A lover is one who goes into a relationship to give.
If a relationship ends they are more so sad because they have lost the opportunity to give and to have what they are giving be received. They receive, “not take” with gratitude and appreciation.
They see the whole process as life, love, feeding and nourishing itself.

“I love you, I love myself. I love myself, I love you!” ~ RUMI

You must become what you want to attract! ~ BSM II

When you want love, truth and light like a drowning person wants air,

then, my friend, you're ready to be a lover!

One mo' time!

Love is not what you do, it is what you are.

If love is a verb, is not the ultimate verb,

to be?

Read on friends, read on!

2008-02-16T09:21:00.000-08:00

I Want Burning

Welcome to the Crucible!

Gold is purified by fire! Diamonds start out as coal. Forget about buying a diamond. It is the process of pressure the coal goes through to become the diamond that gives it its' worth. Life either grinds you down or polishes you. Be a diamond! Life is not about buying but being!
Nothing changes shape without heat and pressure. Life provides the pressure, but the fire must be set within you. It can’t come from a source outside you. Do you burn? Do you have the inner fire?
No agony no ecstasy!

The Sufi’s say, “No one gets to Heaven without crucifixion!”

The Elixir of Passion
False gold keeps you from looking for real gold.
Run my friends run fast and furious from all false solutions
Let divine passion triumph and rebirth you in yourself
~ RUMI

For over thirty years I have been in training of some sort for something. I have looked at or into pretty much every form of training. There are no easy ways out. There are no shortcuts home. There are no magic pills. Everything centers around three things, "How it is, How you are, and Why you're doing it! If you don't know for sure these three things, and who's training you doesn't know these three things, everyone is wasting their time. Practice is the goal says Zen. It is all about commitment, perseverance, persistence and disciplining yourself. That is spirit! How you face adversity. Can you turn adversity into your ally? If you can learn to do that, if you can be an alchemist, then your life will be joyful, happy, fun. Then you can enjoy it, because you will be ready for it. Have you ever taken a test in school that you didn’t study for or feel well prepared for, played a game you didn’t practice for? Fail to prepare, prepare to fail!
You know the feeling! This class is to prepare you for life and love!

To me,
I have the best job in the world.
I get to show you how amazing you are! I get to show you how great and fantastic you are often in spite of yourself. I get to witness some of the most amazing transformations and changes not only in you but your perception of you. I am going to be bold here and say, “Anything you can do or want to do, I can make you significantly better at it.” I make you better at you. I will not tell you what to do. You do what you want. The masters say, “I don’t care what you do from day to day as long as your vision is clear.”

WE first need direction, only then is effort productive. It makes no difference how fast you can run if you are running in the wrong direction!

Effort

A simple sory of what is expected of you in class nd it is imperative that you read this.

In China, if two people are doing an exercise. The first who can do 100 and does 75 and the second who can only do 10 does 11. The first wil be sent home for lack of effort even though they "appeared" to do 64 "more" than the other person. The reality is that the first person gave a 75% effort and the second 110% effort. If you are reading this sight, I know you understand.

The effort is not to prove, but to improve!

Do your best then rest!

In Rumi’s poem he says, “I Want Burning!”

"If you do not burn, this is not your house.

It is not "your" life!"

I want the same in my workouts in my classes.
I want people who are as dedicated to their growth and development as I am to them. I am not asking for much, just your all!

I guarantee you will find the classes challenging, effective and safe at your, and any level!

I guarentee you will be inspired and have

FUN, FUN, FUN while you burn, burn, burn fut and calories!

Come try "Katango" a WORKOUT for Warriors and Lovers, class Free!

See class schedules for where and when.

2008-02-12T10:53:00.000-08:00

"Katango"

a WORKOUT

for Warriors & Lovers

is the Perfect Training for

Dancers and Athletes

Dancers are the Athletes of God! ~ Einstein

The classes are for "anyone" who wants to move, feel, look and be Great NOW!
Imagine being pain and stress free, having great muscle control, muscle memory and a body to die for. Imagine being able to isolate muscles and have them move the way you want them to move, when and how you want them to move.

All levels welcome and will be challenged at their level!

You’ve heard the term “Dancing Machine”, now you can really be exactly that. You can have a beautifully sculpted, proportioned symmetrical shape that will move in ways you never dreamed you could. Your legs and hips, without becoming overly muscular, will have the ability to lift and move you effortlessly and fluidly. Your hips, torso, abs and back, will be defined and allow you snake-like, effortless, smoothness and fluidity.

I guarantee you immediate improvement in strength, flexibility, coordination, balance, endurance and rhythm. No more worrying if you can do or make it through a performance, the day or the night. You will increase energy, perseverance, persistence, spirit, heart, soul as well as the the clarity and peace of mind to stay focused on fulfilling your dreams. No matter how big or small those dreams are, they are yours and they are important to me as well.

More than “the Core”!

Go much deeper with precise accurate strengthening, stretching and isolating of the pelvic region (hips, glutes, inner/outer thigh esp. lower abs/abs/back and spine) as well as obviously your legs. You will know immediately where and why you are working. You have fun training for the purpose of performing movements. Where we differ is that we tie it all together in cardio dance movement. Healing, pain and stress relief and injury prevention are just a natural part of the process for us. Pilates and Yoga, although great practices and their integrity and results are unquestionable, they are not so much developmental and movement oriented as they are theraputic.

Yoga and Pilates instructors often come to my class and find they can improve their practice. Often, the 40 or 50 year old students of my classes are able to perform moves easier than the 20 and 30 year old Yoga and Pilates instructors. Many people, including instructors say they stretch and strengthen muscles they didn’t know they had. This is because it is a movement class, (though we do slow mo. and static positions), whereas Pilates and Yoga are mostly static. Because they didn’t know they had the muscles doesn’t mean they don’t need them especially if they are going to move. My classes, though meditative, greatly improve and increase aerobic, endurance and fat burning capacity.

I remember a quote, “The Lotus grows out of the mud not out of the mat!” To be a dancer, an athlete or just a real person you’ve got to be willing to get your uniform a little dirty. If your uniform isn’t dirty, it usually means you may not have tried hard enough.

I am a dancer, athlete, martial artist, boxer and trainer with over 30 years experience. I have lived and worked with martial artists, performers and dancers in China and Japan and with dancers and models in America. My job was then as it is now “Performance Preparation” for stage, show and life.

I am a Meta-Physical Fitness, fine muscle movement and isolation specialist. I employ science and spirituality simultaneously. This allows me to see what moves you are doing and “know” which muscles need to be stretched and strengthened to perform those movements or create the body proportion and symmetry you need to look how you need to look. I inspire and guide you mentally and emotionally to a new and more productive way of being. "Action follows being and you become what you practice most." There is no greater performance to prepare for than life itself. Is not Life but a Stage?

I give you wings, physically, mentally and emotionally. You have dreams? I make you the very vehicle to fulfill those dreams.

How would you like to be?

What would you like to do?

No matter what style of dance are athletic art you love, the “Lover’s Workout” Katango and the Super Dee-Licious Stretch and Dee-Stress class will make you better at it immediately.

Take a look at the schedule of classes.

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2008-02-11T10:09:00.001-08:00

Is the Warriors & Lovers Workout

another one of those sex classes?

NO! NO! NO!

Did I say no? I meant no!

There are dog lovers, cat lovers, like me sweet lovers (I love sweets, ice cream chocolate, let me stop) dance lovers, sport lovers and on and on.

What do you "love"?

Would you "love" to be better at it?

This is a class for those who love to love and thus love life itself.

As Rumi says, "If you've lived your life without love, count your life not lived!"

In this class you come "to work" physically, mentally and emotionally!

It is for peaceful warriors and passionate people!

These are unique training methods you will not find anywhere else inspired by

the Oriental movement arts!

There is no obscene, vulgar or inappropriate language or gestures.
Make no mistake, this, like Yoga and Pilates (which it greatly compliments), and other conscious training methods, is an intense challenge and a "serious workout", both inner and outer, for all levels who are dedicated to total "progressive"self-improvement, health and wellness. Although it is for all levels, no serious dancer, yogini/yogi, Pilates practitioner, or athlete could overlook this class or its' immediate obvious and useful benefits. And I will say this, "If you do not respect yourself or others, this is not the class for you." It is inspiring, fun, funny, playful, challenging, meditative and yes sensual, but we do "nothing" you couldn't openly practice in a park or on a beach.

I demand full respect for all who attend class and appropriate attire at all times. How about this for an oxy-moron? It is a “Discipline of Freedom”, because with freedom comes responsibility. Learning to dance and move well comes with responsibility. It does have a visceral affect on people when you move well, especially clothed, as you will be in this class. Only people who are afraid of the responsibility that comes with the skill of moving well are afraid or ashamed to do so. It is no different than learning a martial art and coming from a background of martial arts and seeing it first hand in China and Japan, I expect that those who learn this from me would treat it as a discipline and honor it as such. If we can validate and honor fighting why can’t we honor and validate respectful, purposeful, beautiful movement?

It may look like a Yoga class. It may look like a dance class. It may look like an exercise or mat class. It may look like a meditation, a tai chi, or chi gong class, but a sex class no. Sensual yes, fun oh yeah. Sex class, NO! Although you will understand a great deal more about sensuality and spirituality as you continue taking the class.

I have been a deep spiritual seeker since the death of my parents as a child and teen and more recently my younger brother to kidney failure. For over thirty years I have been listening, looking, and asking questions. I question my answers. I even question my questions. I spent long hours in temples in both China and Japan, in Churches, Mosques, Temples and Synagogues. Oh did I mention I was a stripper too! I can tell you this, “People are neither as Spiritual nor Sexual as they think they are”. And we have definitely not learned to balance the two or much else in our lives have we? So don’t be afraid to come into class and “Shake your Buddha”!

Inspiring, perspiring and meditative, this class will improve the way you move and feel. The sensual movements are hidden in the dance like “wax on, wax off” were hidden to Daniel-san in Karate kid. In fact Katango comes from the word “Kata” a Japanese word to describe a series of meditative practice movements. The other half is Tango, the passionate Latin dance. You learn meditative practice movements “alone” so you can eventually move well with a partner in a Tango-esque meditation in motion, moving mantras as a testament to your mutual respect of each other and the Rhythm of Life and Love.

In the martial arts there is sparring, where two people square off against each other. In Katango we occasionally do "mirroring". This is when two people practice the same dance move across from or "with" each other in simple synchronized steps. It is a meditative energetic giving and recieving like a great conversation. This somewhat resembles the mambo step in Dirty Dancing or a simple Tango-like movement. The key word is simple so as to focus on breathing and relaxation. It almost looks like, as some describe it Chi Gong Dancing or Pranadance!

There is NO complex CHOREOGRAPHY! It is all about the moving, the breathing and the inner stillness you achieve. Like the “Eye of the Storm” is calm in the center. Your movement is passionate, alive, fluid and sensual. “And” you are relaxed and aware as you move not fearful or worried about, “Am I doing this right?” All you have to do is breathe and count to 3!
Breathe 2, 3 to be exact.

It is meditation in motion, a moving mantra!

This is not a sex class. Sensual yes! Aware yes! Conscious Yes! Profound Yes!
Sex class no! Absolutely not!
You dress like you would in a Yoga, Pilates or Gym class. Some people have even taken the class in jeans and a T-shirt.

Want to know more about what it does?

I hope so, because, NOTHING WILL GET YOUR HIPS, BUTT, LOWER ABS, ABS AND BACK/SPINE, LEGS, WAISTLINE AND ALL THE REST OF YOU INSIDE AND OUT IN BETTER SHAPE, MORE EFFECTIVELY, SAFER AND FASTER!!!

ARE YOU READY TO GO "DEEPER" (into your core & the core of all understanding),
IMPROVE THE WAY YOU MOVE (from that core)
REALLY BE REAL WITH HOW YOU FEEL &
TO LEARN THAT THERE'S MORE TO YOUR "CORE"
THAN YOU'VE HEARD, SEEN OR KNOWN BEFORE?

Read the blogs on the Workout for Warriors and Lovers and other topics that interest you.

Aren't you curious?

Come in and try a class FREE and see, for yourself. What you feel is real!

A RELAXED RUSH ~ How to slow down

2008-02-10T23:48:00.000-08:00

Today’s world has us rushing, rushing, rushing, here, there, everywhere. You know the drill. Life is so hectic for most people that the only thought on Monday is how they’re going to make it to Friday. Everyday, instead of “Good Morning Lord, we say, Good Lord it’s morning". Where does the time go? They once asked Einstein to explain the “Theory of Relativity” in laymen’s terms. He said, “Sure that’s easy. Pleasure seems fleeting, pain eternal". The two days you get off for the weekend only seem half as long as Monday… “morning”!

So you want to know what the masters know? It’s as easy as riding a bike. No really, it is. Have you ever noticed that no matter how fast you ride a bike, no matter how fast the tires are turning, the hub bolt in the middle of the spokes stays still? It doesn’t move faster just because the bike goes faster.

Let’s look at another example. When you step on the gas in your car, do you start moving faster inside the car just because the car goes faster? The answer to both is no, right?

Okay let’s apply that to you. You have a situation where you have to move faster. You need to rush to get something done. Remember, “The fastest way to a mistake is to hurry up and get there”! If you don’t have time to get it right the first time, if you make a mistake, how are you going to have time to do it again? So first relax.

Let’s play a game. Watch yourself moving quickly. The faster you need to go outside, the more you want to slow down inside to counter balance. Moving fast is fine. Rushing is fine. Just watch yourself.

There is a great story of a disciple asking his master if he could smoke while he meditated. The master replied, ‘You idiot, how ridiculous, how stupid". The disciple figured the master was mad anyway why not joke a little? He asked, “Well then, is it ok if I meditate while I smoke?" The master replied, “Absolutely! That is a brilliant idea. First good thought you’ve had." If you meditate and watch yourself you will see through anything you do. Watching yourself is a perfect meditation. Remember, "You can't take away darkness, you can only add light." Add light? Hmm, could that be where the term enlightenment came from? Naa probably not!

So if and when you need to hurry, to rush, relax. Do what you need to do as quickly as it needs to get done. Just watch yourself. Play the game. Witness yourself doing whatsoever it is. Rush, but relax.

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PEACE & PASSION

2008-02-10T00:58:00.000-08:00

This is balance. If you do not develop and balance both peace and passion, your life, as will your lover, will remain unfulfilled. To be a lover of another, of life, of the divine, of even yourself, you must have and provide both excitement and relaxation. If you cannot, your life and your relationship will fall to a one-sided extreme which will not last for long. In truth, it cannot, by laws of nature, last for long. Just as you need both a positive and a negative wire, a hot, and a cool or passive wire, to power anything, so too do you need the same in a relationship.

A man and a woman need to alternate these energies back and forth during their living and loving together. Although the masculine and the feminine play their majority roles, it is refreshing for them to play role reversal in their passive/aggressive or as I prefer assertive natures.

Just as a woman likes her man to ravish and take her, to pick her up, sweep her off her feet and carry her off through the doors of desire, she also needs to know he cares deeply for her. She neeeds to know he can really hear her and be sensitive to her feelings on issues that are affecting her. Just as a man appreciates a woman’s softness and her gentle way, oh my ladies do we like it when you give us that look that says mama needs some lovin’ and she needs it now!

Remember “Crazy on You” by Heart? Now that is a balance of peace and passion. Other songs that have that are “No One Like You” by the Scorpions, my favorite “Rock Me” by Great White and of course, "No Ordinary Love " by Sade. All of these songs have their slow and peaceful side then erupt with passion letting their lover know they are wanted and madly desired. They know how to lay back and watch like a panther or a wolf. Then as peaceful as they are one moment, they are passionate and wild the next. If you don’t feel that, like these songs there is a balance of peace and passion in your relationship, or in you on your own, you may want to check both your, your lover's and the pulse of the relationship. Not much is more disheartening or discouraging as a relationshp about to or already flat-lining on "lov support system.

You must develop and balance your mild and wild sides. Both are natural and both are necessary. Does not the same sky that is sunny one moment pour down with rain gushing gallons of water down on creation with thunder and lightening sounding in a divine orchestration?

Let your peace guide your passion. Let your peaceful higher self guide, not destroy, suppress or repress your passionate, also intelligent, animal nature. Heart is a union of your peaceful and passionate natures. A peaceful heart that is not passionate is as useless on one end as a passionate heart that is not peaceful is dangerous on the other.
Given the choice of the two, most would prefer a passionate partner who can excite them. Although a massage from your lover is great, peace and relaxation you tend to be able to find on your own, like at a spa maybe! Being able to cook is nice too but where you cook is more appealing than what. Life favors the bold!

Just for the record a woman who is a balance of Sade and Shakira, oh yeah, that would work for most if not all of us guys, just as I would imagine a woman, at least from what I’m hearing from the women that come to my classes, Richard (Gere) and Rambo! Peace and Passion people, peace and passion.

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P.S. How's your peace and passion pulse doing?

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PUMP FICTION

2008-02-05T11:18:00.000-08:00

Why your workouts don’t work!
&
Why training, traditionally and improperly, is wasting your time, money and energy!

Find out why just about everything you’ve seen or heard about lifting weights and resistance training is ineffective.

Find out how and why the ancient art of Kung Fu can help you defeat fat, bad habits and build a victorious body in a shorter time, using superior movement, body positioning and breathing.

Using the principles of the Martial Arts that allow someone to defeat someone twice their size, you can learn to cut your work out time in half.

Use the gym to teach you to relax and be more productive in the gym and in life.

Make your existing work-out 3x’s more effective.

A car is only as good as its driver and the gym, any gym is only as good as you are. The same principles you use to create productivity in the gym, you use in life. Wherever “you” go there “you” are!

Kung means time. Fu means energy. Together it means the time and energy you put into something develops “skill”.
Skill is what the Buddhists call “Opai”.

Most people go to the gym not only to build their bodies but think they are relieving stress. Actually as soon as you try to push or pull anything in an un-relaxed un focused way, you create more stress. You become what you practice most. If you train grunting and pushing in a gym, you are conditioning your brain to do the same thing in response to other difficult situations. Again, you can use the gym to teach you to relax and be more productive in the gym and in life.

TIME

Twice the Workout in Half the Time
Find out how to get “twice the work-out in half the time.”
Yes that’s what I said; you can spend half as much time in the gym and literally get twice the workout.

ENERGY

Everybody complains they don’t have enough energy. Between bad body positioning and poor usage of your time what can you expect. Learn how to get more done in a shorter time. Be more effective, more efficient and have more fun challenging yourself with better ways of training. Why not increase energy and power and learn how to have, “Effortless Power rather than Powerless Effort”?

Money

If time is money then the how you use your energy factors in big. It’s not the time; it’s the results in that time, productivity. If you’re wasting energy, you’re wasting time because the less energy you have, the less productive right? If you’ve got to go 130 miles in a 2 hrs and your car can only do 45mph when you need it to do 65mph, in an hour you are going to be 20 miles behind, in 2hrs, 40 miles. You’ll almost have to drive 3hrs to do what you could do in two. You’ve just lost an hour’s worth of productivity.

Mind into Muscle

You need skill, Opai. First work smart then work hard. Measure twice cut once. We’ve all heard it. Then we go into the gym and start using momentum and bad body positioning in a self-defeating manner to work-out. Momentum is good for work but bad for a work out. If you use momentum in the gym you are actually only channeling about half the weight you are using to the muscles. It is like spilling water into a glass rather than accurately pouring it. Bad body positioning not only wastes the workout, it can also cause injury. Bad body positioning plus reverse momentum from when the weight swings back from where you “threw” it to and improper yanking of weight are the number one causes of injury in the gym. If your injured the only thing you can build is a medical bill (wasting more money) and a spare tire.

Why train differently?

The Purpose of working out is to develop the body’s muscular, structural, and neuro-muscular systems using resistance.

If you do not develop good neuro-transmission and neur-muscular facilitation you will end up “somebody with a dumb body.” You will be uncoordinated. All show no go!

To build muscle, you “must” create what is called micro-trauma which is a breaking down of the muscle tissue and fibers so they can build-up. It doesn’t matter how many reps or how many sets or how much weight you use, if you do not create a micro trauma, your workout didn’t work. Nothing builds up that is not broken down. This is a principle of life. As Rumi would say, "Only a crushed grape can make sweet wine!"

As I mentioned earlier, you may not realize this but everything you do conditions your brain to continue to do things in that manner. Remember you become what you practice most. Why not train your brain to be cool, relaxed and calm. Direct your passion, your spirit and energy like a laser and develop more of it rather than dispersing it in angry useless unproductive prehistoric grunting? Remember, in life you are either a Warrior or a Wimp, a worrier. Also remember a dumb warrior ends up a dead warrior. There are old warriors and bold warriors but very few old bold warriors. Nothing kills like stupidity.

Train and work smart first. Be skillful. Make and save, time, money and energy. Time, money and energy saved, is time, money and energy earned.

There are "no" weight loss solutions!

2008-02-04T01:57:00.000-08:00

There are no and can never be any solutions to weight loss because the weight is not and has never been the problem. All talk about weight loss is heavy lies. The weight, the fat, is a symptom of the, or the, problem(s). It is the result of a problem and that problem is not so much what you eat but, “why” you eat. Most people are feeding a hungry heart. Most of the time people eat out of boredom or anxiousness. Most of the time people don’t know why or what they are eating.

Watching what you eat is not even the solution.
"You have got to watch who’s watching what you eat."

Losing weight is like cutting off a weed above ground.
It is a fix. It is temporary.

If people lose weight without gaining self-awareness it is useless. Let me say it another way, "Losing weight is not as important as gaining self!"
All it will do is feed the meat market and I will not feed the meat market!

Besides, say you lose weight, what did you lose? Remember muscle weighs more than fat. If you lose muscle you lower your metabolism and lose your way to lose the weight in “body fat”.
Forget about the scale. Scales are for fish!

Fixing the body is easy. Losing the body “fat” is easy. It’s the human variable that is difficult to get by sometimes. It is difficult to be human. In truth, it is too hard to get a human being to start helping themselves and to easy for them to stop.

The first thing to do is to "throw out your scale"! Stay off the scale! Scales are for fish! They can "not" tell what it is that you are losing, fat or muscle. Most weight loss fad diets cause you to lose "water weight"not so much body fat. If you are losing water and/or muscle and it will also show on the scale. Muscle weighs more than fat. Muscle is also what you need to burn the fat. No creams, no pills, no nothing will help you trim down as fast as having a good metabolism which is mainly due to having enough muscle mass. You don't have to build an overly muscular figure or physique. A dancer, gymnast or athletic build is more than enough. Start from where you are being happy with who you are. You are just fine. In fact you are just great. You are doing the best you could do for what you knew to do. The question is, "What are you going to do "NOW"?

Look at Oprah, an absolutely wonderful and beautiful woman who struggles with her weight constantly. Oprah’s trainer who seems like a nice enough guy and a good “conventional trainer” has still not realized that the problem is not her food. Oprah’s real weight is on her shoulders. She carries the hopes of millions of viewers everyday who hope she puts a solution to their problem on her show that afternoon. Stress, that is where the real problem is.

America is into intervention rather than prevention and relief rather than cure. It fixes the symptoms, it intervenes. Intervention will always cost more than prevention in time, money and energy. As Chris Rock says, “There’s no money in the cure. The money is in the comeback. Last time I checked, it takes time and energy to make money.

STRESS - RELIEF and PREVENTION

2008-01-29T01:12:00.000-08:00

What is stress? Stress is not, has never been and will never be anything outside of you. It is “your” reaction to something that triggers the stress “response” within you. Stress response is what you experience when the stress hormones, adrenaline and cortisol are released into your system if you are frightened, upset or “feel” threatened.

Stress is not the problem. Actually stress is good. It lets you know something is not quite right. It lets you know, you know something needs to be done, or "not" done. If not for the alert stress gives people, no one would do anything. People are not self- motivated. They are not inspired. They run to pleasure and run from pain. They only seem to do something when a crisis arises. Only when stress becomes or puts you in a state of distress is it a problem. Distress causes disease.

Distress rather than stress is the main cause of dis-ease in our society. It weakens your immune system. Sicknesses and illnesses are more psycho-somatic than anything else. Stress is like an alarm and if the alarm stays on the hormonal chemical flood keeps flowing. That is how the real problem arises. It is like stepping on the gas in your car while stepping on the brake. If you step on the gas in your car and you cannot go anywhere, like when you have the emergency brake on, like your car, since you can’t run, you will sit there and rattle and shake.

The adrenaline, cortisol fight or flight fuels are flowing everywhere and you can’t go anywhere. If you are stressed in the office being yelled at by your boss, where can you go? If it is three in the morning and the baby is crying and you have to get up at 6:00 to go to work where can you go? I tell you the “thought” you attach to the baby crying and you will not get sleep is more of a problem than the baby crying. I tell you the “thought” that your boss is yelling at you and the feeling you are getting “about” what is happening is causing you “more” stress. If you allow it to continue into distress, then you have compounded problem.

When do we stress? We stress when we do not have an immediate answer to an immediate problem, when we become worried or frightened. We stress in states of desire (hope) or fear which are the only two reasons we do anything. Anytime we want to be anywhere doing anything other than what we are doing or being, we compound and create more stress and suffering.

Hope and fear are one and the same emotion. When we hope something will happen, we simultaneously fear it won’t happen. When we fear something will happen, we simultaneously hope it won’t happen.

In life you are either a Warrior or a worrier, you choose!
Worrying solves nothing and instead compounds the problem. It increases your fear and so decreases your ability to think through the problem.

What is the main problem with stress? Under stress we regress.

How many times have you heard a business say, “We’re sorry, our systems are down and we don’t have access to that information?”

That is exactly what happens when you get upset. Your systems go down and you don’t have access to information. In fact it happens even if you mildly stress about a name or a number you can’t remember doesn’t it?

Einstein figured out “the Theory of Relativity” relaxing in his bathtub. He struggled, day in day out, night in night out, to understand. It was only as he was relaxing in his tub that his mind, “Einstein’s mind”, relaxed enough to allow the assimilation of the information.

Again, when we stress we release the stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol. These hormones put us in fight or flight mode which causes our “thinking” brain to shut down and make us retain body fat. This is “aside” from what we might gain from “nervous eating!”

So what can we do to Relieve Distress?

It is simple.
To Relieve Distress – Breathe Deep
If you are already feeling stressed out you are actually in a state of distress. You need to flush out the stress hormones that have accumulated in your system. This happens by breathing or anything that causes you to breathe more.

Breathe in deeply through your nose and exhale in a sigh with your mouth slightly open. Do not hold your breath.

WHY? Your system is flooded. If you were an engine you would say, your air / fuel mixture is imbalanced. To regain equilibrium you must somehow burn off the extra fuel that was created by your stressing out. To do that, you need more air, more oxygen to balance out the flood of stress hormones.

Aerobics, resistance training or Yoga, because they require you to breathe, will “also” help burn the excess stress out of the muscles. Yoga, at times is more functional because people tend to stress lifting weights when they can’t get out that “last rep.” You know, the primal scream after they hold their breath and make the face like they just ate something really nasty. By the way, if you are in a gym and you stress and push in an un-relaxed way, you release more stress hormones.

The best thing is to prevent stress all together.

What can we do to Prevent Stress?
Until we are more skilled, there are no specific ways to prevent what we “feel” are our triggers. If we are aware of the triggers as they are happening and we watch “our” response to them, we can prevent stress. We all lose our balance at times. We can, however prevent stress from turning into distress. Triggers are based on our conditioning of what we feel threatens us. More on that later. For now though,

If you find yourself in a state of “distress”, practice the relief first then the prevention. The relief will calm you down and the prevention (below) will help you stay relaxed.

To Prevent Stress and Distress– Breathe Shallow
As soon as you notice yourself getting upset or being affected by a trigger or negative stimulus, relax and begin to breath shallow and soft “through your nose only”. Look down as if looking at the roof of your mouth and just breath slow and soft. If you are driving of course you can’t look down but if you look straight out in front of you as if allowing the sight in softening your stare, this also works.

There is a saying, “God is the breath between the breaths.”
Heaven, peace, nirvana are all located in the “space” between the exhale and the inhale.

Have you noticed, when you inhale, unless you purposely try to hold your breathe, there is a tension? There is an uneasiness about it right? Have you noticed when you are scared, the first thing you do is inhale and hold your breath? You are afraid, you in-hale you in-hell. When you exhale, you feel better. You relax. You ex-hale, you ex-hell. This is called the neutral zone. It is where energy enters on the relaxed in-breath and intelligence rises up on the out-breath.

The more un-forced in-breathe space there is, the more energy you gain. The more “un-forced” space there is between each breath, during the exhale, the more “God”, the source, Heaven is there. Heaven is within you, you are in it. It is a small death. You are free of the body. It is paradoxical yes but true. The exhale is a cleansing. When you exhale you are cleaning out the excess adrenaline and cortisol, the carbon dioxide.

What is more relief, to eat when you are starving or to relieve yourself when you need to, well you know, really bad? Uh huh! Thought so!

The relief and prevention are practices you can do through daily visualizations. See yourself getting upset by visualizing something that upsets you. Practice the relief first then the prevention.

Take a look at the earlier blog on Growing Younger- The New Anti-Aging.

Please tell those you care for and those you meet about this website.
Help them help themselves!

Keep checking back for new beneficial life-changing blogs and quotes.

World Peace is an individual effort beginning right here, right now, with you!
Thank You for visiting!

Are you "really" Balanced and Centered

2008-01-28T16:59:00.000-08:00

Are you “really”
Balanced & Centered

People speak of Balance of Power
I tell you now,
“Balance is Power”

Are you really mentally, physically and emotionally simultaneously developed synergistic and sound?

Balanced means you have achieved an equilibrium within yourself, developed physically, intelligently and those together emotionally. Your head, heart and hips must all work and work well within you, together. This is not an “or” option. Most people achieve development in one or at best two. Self mastery “Balance” happens only when you a have developed, balanced the three, they work well together within you and you can remain balanced in your interactions with the world and those in it. It takes work to develop your total capacity.

Centered means you neither go too far one way or the other.
It is easy to be centered in a small circle.

It is easy to partially develop one. What you want is to be:

Wise and intelligent. Not so smart you are dumb
Or

Sexy, beautiful, strong and attractive. Have a body and know how to use it!
Or

Loving, empathetic, compassionate, passionate. Not so sweet they are annoying.

Few are two. Very, very, very few, fully have all three. Fewer than that can get them to actually “work” together in “one” person. Oh yeah, “Happy and Funny too!”

People usually choose to develop or another then vehemently defend that strength by criticizing the aspects developed by others.

You know, “Bigger the body, the smaller the brain.” and vice versa. Full pockets, empty heart.

A quote on the perils of imbalance.

"At times our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them."

More on Being Balanced

Most people now a day hear the buzz word “balanced”, but what does it mean? Most people will say calm and relaxed. They imagine some kind of oriental master sitting on a pillow somewhere saying “om”. They think of someone sitting in the Lotus position or someone doing Yoga in cozy clean room. A quick heads up! The Lotus grows out of the mud not out of the mat!

This is "not" balance to those in the East. One of my mentors was a doctor from India. He wondered what it was people "thought" they were doing when they did the postures and asanas and what they think they will accomplish from it other than "appearing" peaceful. I have lived in China and Japan for years and my friends, some of whom are monks laugh at the western misinterpretation of balance. In Japan, they sent the monks to downtown Tokyo during rush hour with begging bowls. Sometimes people put money in. Sometimes people took money out. The monks bowed to both. The monks in China practiced kung fu, not for belts, there are no belts anywhere in China for this. They didn't practice as a method so much to fight others but, to see themselves and their spirit in the face of adversity much like you face in daily life. To them, “Practice is the goal!” The passion, peace, patience, perseverance and skills you develop as a by product of the training is what makes life easier.

If you are sitting on a rock or a pillow listening to a river, a stream or the ocean watching butterflies float by, who couldn’t or wouldn’t be relaxed? If you are sitting in a room, sometimes immaculately clean and silent, how can that not calm you? That is at best relief. Whatever problems you brough to the pillow in your head, you may dissipate there. THe purpose of your practice is not relief, it is prevention and cure. If you are balanced, the pillow is to move forward toward more heaven not to constantly bring you back from hell.

They don’t send you to Club Med or Canyon Ranch to prepare you for Iraq or Vietnam though do they? What a shock to the system that would be.

Unless your name is Robinson Crusoe or Wilson, you will most likely have to interact with others. Sartre said “Hell is other people!” Balance is Heaven. If you are imbalanced or easily unbalanced then other people will be the cause of your imbalance. They will be the catalyst, the trigger, but not the “reason” you experience your imbalance. That will occur because you were not prepared.

To truly be ready for life, love or the war that is now just our daily lives you have got to be ready mentally, emotionally and physically. If you lack in any of those areas, life will be difficult.

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. Are you ready for life and love? Are you prepared? Are you “balanced” enough to deal with what each brings? If so, realize that balancing yourself is difficult enough. When you add another, the blessings and burdens, their gifts and their garbage, their trash and their treasure, you will find out. As Rumi says, “Love comes with a knife, nor some shy request.” Life also, unlike a movie doesn’t always allow for a second take.

2008-01-28T13:04:00.000-08:00

Welcome to "Katango"

a WORKOUT

for Warriors & Lovers

Training for the Head, Heart and Hips

It's a relaxing, fun, challenging “total body workout”
Specializing in “Pelvic Region” and Spine ~ Structural Strengthening and Stretching, tightening /toning - hips, glutes, low abs, back and legs

~ Pain and Stress relief and prevention

This is meditation in motion, this passionate moving mantra is a serious workout for the hips, glutes, legs, lower abdominals, lower back and spine. Strengthen, lengthen and realign your spine. "Relieve pain!" "Increase energy!" A great leg shaper! No more saddle bags. No more muffin tops or love handles (Love is good, handles we can do without!)

Meditatively practice deep, soulful, sensual movement “styles” like simplified Tango, Rumba, Mambo (Dirty Dancing), Salsa, Soul and Exotic dance to improve and isolate hip and body movement, coordination, and rhythm. Practice alone then later with a partner. It is a beautiful single or couples meditation. Everything in 4 steps! Actually it's Breathe 2, 3! Yes, it's that easy!

Burn fat and calories sculpting a beautiful attractive body while developing strength, balance, flexibility, coordination, rhythm and endurance. Improve shoulder to hip to waist ratio to create your ideal symmetry!

Be “Inspired” with uplifting quotes and affirmations for the heart and mind.
Learn to love yourself and your life as you improve your love life!

Patient accommodating guidance for all levels that gently challenges you to move through difficult areas.

“Never” be made to feel inadequate. Work to improve, not to prove.

Check the Class schedule and try the first class "free"!

People say “Nothing even comes close to working these areas like this class does!”

“It is the next evolution in conscious training beyond Yoga and Pilates and is a more intense and challenging workout than Tae Bo.” Learn how there's more to the core than we knew before! ~ BSM II

So what does it take to be a lover? What do you want in a lover?

You must become what you want to attract!

Look, Feel and Be
Younger, Stronger, Smarter, Sexier & Stress Free Longer

This class will prepare you to move and breathe better, to communicate with and understand your partner better. It is a moving mantra. It is a meditation in motion.The movement exercises are to be practiced alone first and then with a partner if you desire. You must first develop the ability to move rhythmically and passionately on your own. Just like you need to be able to be alone before you can be with anyone else.

Everybody “who’s honest” wants someone who can
Excite, engage, understand and relax them. In Katango we occasionally do "mirroring". This is when two people practice the same dance move across from or "with" each other in simple synchronized steps. It is a meditative energetic giving and recieving like a great conversation. This somewhat resembles the mambo step in Dirty Dancing or a simple Tango-like movement. What we occasionally do is called mirroring. This is when two people stand accross from each other or together if they like and meditatively practice a step together. It is more about the breathing and relaxing than the step. It is like a great dialogue or conversation, body talk if you will!

Head- Everyone in the world openly agrees that they want someone with a good head on their shoulders, someone intelligent and wise, someone who can keep a cool head but is passionate and alive.

Heart-Everyone also openly agrees they want someone loving, passionate and compassionate. They want someone they can talk to that is empathetic. They want someone who is romantic with a sense of humor to flat out funny, someone who makes them laugh. They want someone who is, not only, not stressed out themselves but can help them relax. They want to be relaxed.

Hips – everyone also agrees but, to be socially correct, few admit they want someone who is beautiful, healthy, sexy and turns them on. They really want someone with a perfect kiss with soft lips who can and move their hips “well”!

Stop living out a limited existence in a socially accepted civilized survival state!

You can't go with who you can't grow with!

God Loves you the Way you Make Love- Rumi

You make love the way you dance! ~ BSM II

Human bodies are words, myriads of words, The body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural ...Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame." Walt Whitman

Dancers are the athletes of God- Einstein

Check the schedule, Try one class Free!

BE YOUNGER, STRONGER, SMARTER, SEXIER & STRESS FREE ~ LONGER

2008-01-24T01:08:00.000-08:00

All of these are interdependent trainings for the Head, Heart and Hips
Specializing in training for the the Lower Abdominals, Glutes (hips and butt), Spine and Waistline

Younger
Look and Feel Years Younger, Increase Energy
Natural anti-aging from the inside out
increase and use the body’s natural energies
Increase metabolism and libido

Stronger
Sculpt a beautiful proportionate body that is
strong, flexible, coordinated body as you develop balance and rhythm
Incredible pelvic hips, butt, legs, lower abdominals
and obliques(love handles) workout
Stretch and strengthen the spine
Fast Fat Burn from fluid flowing non- impact cardio

Smarter
Improve focus, concentration and memory
Increase wisdom, self- awareness
Decrease fear and inhibition
Develop perseverance and persistence
Learn to harness your emotions
Change negative habits and create positive momentum

Sexier
Learn Sensual Latin Dance moves to practice with your lover or lover to be.
(Rumba, Tango, Mambo, Salsa)
Learn Soulful Rhythmic Dance
Learn Island, Reggea and Exotic Dance
No choreography
Move like a Lover -Romantically and Sensually
Cure Pelvic Paralysis

The Hips Don't Lie!

Stress Free
Learn how to “PREVENT” stress as well as relieve present stress
Learn to Relax and experience real peace
New Meditation methods for Westerners

Longer
All of the above contribute to anti-aging and a significantly younger appearance and feeling for a longer time
They lead to a happier, more enthusiastic, more inspired you

What are the benefits of "Katango" a Workout for Warriors & Lovers?

2008-01-13T22:33:00.000-08:00

BE YOUNGER, STRONGER, SMARTER , SEXIER & STRESS FREE LONGER!
A Practical “Practice” with Rapid Results
for the Head, Heart and Hips.

For the Head - the Mentality, the Psychology
Increase understanding
Increase and Improve Focus
Increase Awareness and Consciousness (more conscious - less stress)
Improve Problem Solving Ability
Improve Communication Skills
Increase Confidence
Improve Memory

For the Heart - the Emotions
Reduce, Relieve and Prevent Stress
Be and Feel more at Peace
Learn to Relax
Increase Passion
Develop Perseverance and Persistence

Increase Endurance
Develop Compassion and Empathy
Increase Romantic Skills

For the Hips - the Physical Body, the Sexuality
Increase Lean Muscle and Sculpt a Sexy Symmetrical Body
Lose Body Fat

Improve coordination and rhythm

Improve balance
Learn to Dance (simplified) and move more sensually and romantically through Latin, Soul, Exotic, Couples Dance (Hips) “no choreography”

Learn to move better eith a partner

Improve body language communication skills
Lengthen, Strengthen and Align the Spine
Dramatically improve core strength especially lower abdominals
Strengthen, tone and open the pelvic girdle
the hips, glutes, leg, inner / outer thigh and perineum muscles
Greatly Improve Love Making Ability-Increase your and your partner’s pleasure
Increase libido
Sculpt and tone arms, back, shoulders and pectorals
Boost immune system
Increase metabolism
Eliminate Back and Body Pain
Increase EnergyLook and Feel Years Younger

A Knight of Absolute Pleasure

2007-11-14T16:40:00.000-08:00

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

2007-10-29T15:10:00.000-07:00

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"

2007-10-29T12:10:00.000-07:00

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

2007-10-18T10:51:00.000-07:00

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

2007-09-25T21:48:00.000-07:00

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.

2007-09-25T18:45:00.000-07:00

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.

2007-09-23T11:57:00.000-07:00

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

2007-09-23T01:05:00.000-07:00

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!"

2007-09-20T11:02:00.000-07:00

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.

2007-09-20T10:44:00.000-07:00

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

2007-09-10T14:39:00.000-07:00

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

2007-09-10T12:27:00.000-07:00

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

2007-09-10T10:28:00.000-07:00

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

2007-09-10T10:06:00.000-07:00

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

2007-09-10T09:24:00.000-07:00

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!