Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
CST Head Coach Adam Steer demonstrates Circular Strength Training with a Sandbag in the CST 6 Degrees of Freedom!
"We don’t move robotically through one plane at a time. Human movement is a complex weaving of movement through different planes and on different axes. One of the flagship programs ...
Posted in Physical, Circular Strength Training | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
One of my students, Rick, wrote this excellent piece which I thought you should read.
Rick speaks to a question I frequently receive from audiences, regardless of the country I'm speaking in: "how do we breath for optimal performance and health?"
My answer is always this: Are you Being Breathed or Barely ...
Posted in Physical, performance enhancement, martial art, breathing, injury prevention | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
At the beginning of the 1990s, I was the "black sheep" of the American SOMBO community, branded "heretic" because I dared to question on simple slogan,
"American SOMBO: Russian Self-Defense with American Ingenuity."
That was the call-sign of the American SOMBO national governing body, for which I served as US Coach and ...
Posted in Physical, Vocational, Spiritual, career development, freedom, empowerment, martial art, change, success | 4 Comments »
Monday, April 28th, 2008
This just posted by one of my students, "Madonna Demonstrating Prasara Yoga!" Check out Madonna busting out the Prasara Yoga Twisting Tripod into Leg Thread. Her choreography takes her into a pigeon pose, instead of a seated spinal twist, but gorgeous body-flow nonetheless! The movement starts at 3:20 seconds into ...
Posted in Physical, yoga | No Comments »
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
An amazing student of mine, named Philip, published this incredible review of my book Prasara Yoga: Flow Beyond Thought. I wanted to comment on how thankful I am for his effort invested in it!
Prasara Yoga - An Integral Yoga for a Postmodern World
"Editor’s Note – What follows are my personal ...
Posted in leadership, Physical, Spiritual, Mental, freedom, flow, yoga, fear, fighting, success | 5 Comments »
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Dr. Beth Cholette of Metapsychology Online officially reviews my best-selling DVD, Ageless Mobility, with one of the most exhaustive reviews to date!
Review - Ageless Mobility: Pain-Free Wellness For Longevity
DVD with Scott Sonnon
by Nikolay Travkin (Director)
RMAX.tv Productions, 2007
Review by Beth T. Cholette, Ph.D.
Apr 8th 2008 (Volume 12, Issue 15)
"Upon first look, ...
Posted in wellness, Physical, joint mobility, stretching, immune system, injury prevention, yoga | No Comments »
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Some of you know my very tight connection to Old-School Hard-Core Yoga... the way real yogis rocked it in the era that Patanjali wrote the Yoga Sutras in 200B.C. by using athletic movement in their yoga (Prasara yoga), and combined with weighted stone rings, climbing ropes and poles, log lifting ...
Posted in Physical, Circular Strength Training, clubbells, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Do you want power, agility, speed, explosiveness and all-around extreme-range strength?
Then, allow me to present - The Clubbell® Swipe.
Train the Swipe gradually and fully, and ominous results will occur for your power. Imagine the impact swinging the 45lbs Clubbell® will have upon your crushing grip, your downward snap, and your ...
Posted in Circular Strength Training, Physical, power, stamina, clubbells, conditioning | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Recently, I wrote about the effective sequencing of joint mobility and dynamic flexibility, why the two are not interchangeable and why they are often confused as synonymous. Read my FREE program here Sequencing Dynamic Flexibility and Joint Mobility.
When you study dynamic flexibility warm-ups, however, even at an Olympic level, there ...
Posted in performance enhancement, joint mobility, Physical, arms, injury prevention, flexibility, Circular Strength Training, Webisodes, clubbells | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
This was written by one of my students, a pioneer in the art of parkour.
"It is the little fears that quietly steal our lives. The grand concerns – death, loss, the meaning of existence… these things, by and large, we can and do ignore for most of our days. Philosophers ...
Posted in Mental, fear, anxiety | 1 Comment »
