Two of the world's most accomplished men in their respective fields have teamed up to offer their combined insights on The Path™ of Life Mastery

Steven Barnes NY Times Best Selling Author, Screen Writer and Creator of LifeWriting™

Scott Sonnon International Martial Arts Sensation, known around the world as the "Flow Coach"

It would be impossible for one person to accomplish what these two men have done.  They have mastered the three aspects of life mastery:  a vibrant physical practice, a rich transpersonal community presence, and intrinsically rewarding service careers helping hundreds of thousands worldwide through their collective works.  And they have created a method for you to tap into the connection between your physical, family and professional abundance...

Experience Abundance In Your Life

Through decades of searching, study and practice in a wide variety of  incredibly successful peak performance technologies Steve and Scott have independently identified and collaboratively refined a process which requires only ONE HOUR A WEEK, but over the months and years becomes a rolling snowball of inertia to carry you beyond your personal and professional dreams.

The intent of this inaugural workshop on the Path™ is simple: to give each participant a   glimpse of a balanced, powerful, masterful life, as well as a simple practice (3X  a week, 20 minutes a session) to continue growth.   

Through thousands of successful clients in completely different fields, Steve and Scott discovered that tapping into your unlimited potential is anchored in your physical practice and reticulates outward into your family life and professional career.

Here's just a short sample of the benefits of attending:

The physical component is suitable for all skill and fitness levels 

Here’s a quote from a 400 pound diabetic student with no toes on his right foot:

"By the time I was finished, I was laughing with a joy I had not known in a long while. This has changed  working out from something I was doing out of a sense of duty to a source of pure pleasure. Now I'm looking forward to feeling this good every day. I found a path I can enjoy traveling on. I'm looking forward to seeing what else lies on it.  Your student G.M."

And here’s one from a master martial arts champion, Guro Steve Van Harn. Steve’s list of credentials is absolutely impeccable:

The mental components of the Path™ are no less powerful. 

Here’s the opinion of Filmmaker and NY radio personality Mike Sargent:

“Lifewriting not only shows us WHY we write, it changes recreation into restoration, and allows us to decipher the collective wisdom of mankind (no small feat!). It it the ultimate interpreter for the language of personal myth."

And another from a high-powered Los Angeles event organizer:

“Powerful, life-changing, wonderful.  Exactly what I needed, exactly when I needed it!” -S.R.

How do YOU find the Path™?

Steve and Scott independently discovered (a critical point for them!) a parameter of physical activities which, with only minutes a day, gave their clients the ability to trigger this Flow response.  Scott set to task creating an all-encompassing fitness routine which activates all of the centers of the "unconscious mind" - the name given to the body by Dr. Candace Pert, author of the best selling book, Molecules of Emotion. 

FlowFit™ is a 4-Phase, incrementally-progressing multi-movement chain from Prasara Body-Flow Yoga™ - uniquely constructed based upon Scott's years of championship coaching and competing at an international level in multiple sports to be accessible to all ages and fitness levels. 

Scott uncovered that to be successful physically, not just in the short-term of an event, but in the long-term of life, you need to address every angle of the human condition called:  The 6 Degrees of Freedom.  By magically addressing each of the 6 degrees of human movement freedom in one concise flow, amazing results happen not merely immediately, but perpetually... for as long as you continue to practice the minimum of one "Golden Hour" per week.  This program is specifically, scientifically designed to be:

Although FlowFit™ is a stand alone fitness product with guaranteed results, it's ultimate purpose is not merely physical. Flow can be tapped physically, but it's a unified, singular event - involving the body, the mind, the emotions as a unified experience. In flow, there are no distinctions, no fragmentation of reality into this or that.

All athletic, aesthetic, ascetic, and ecstatic activities describe flow as the ultimate goal throughout history and pan-culturally. It's a path walked by millions since before recorded time. Over the years, I've created a prolific array of blueprints for eliciting that flow in your life through your physical practice, and provided general hints about how this reticulates through every aspect of your life.

FlowFit™ is the key device in entering into a state of flow in all of one's activities.  Steve's work over the years of his international success has been on providing people with the tools to specifically apply flow to their career success, and to the vitality of their intimate relationships. Together, Scott and Steve have composed a specific system for bringing deliberate flow through physical practice into one's vocational and tribal (community and family) lives.

Pure flow state, separate from some specific application, is the core of the "Golden Hour" concept that triggers daily access to your "Genius Zone."  If you have optimal input and optimal output, then the thing that lubricates the entire system is Flow. 

Flow is the rest period between heartbeats. It is neutral gear, which allows you to change your state from muddied confusion to crystal clarity, egotistical immaturity to unconditional love, and low to high performance.  Flow is the moment between moments, and learning to expand this state allows you to have access to the doorway between conscious and unconscious minds. This, in essence, allows you to access your own highest good. You, as an individual, simply don't get smarter than that. It is your "Genius Zone."

However, Steve and Scott realized that what is true of the macro is true of the micro.  What must be true in your body, your relationships or your career, is true in the other two.  Like the presence of Elliot Waves in the stock market, in the arrangement of stars in a galaxy cluster, in the shape of a nautilus shell, and in the architecture of our lungs, the Golden Mean is a universal resonance.

So, if you are imbalanced in any of the three arenas (body, relationship or career) you are out of the "Zone". That is, you have not yet accessed optimal input, output, focus, and flow.  This is the optimally functioning, peak performance: input, output, focus, flow. These four aspects, in balance, will put you into the Genius Zone, where every day you are producing ideas and actions that begin to spiral UPWARD in terms of average efficiency and excellence.  Optimal functioning integrates your cooperation between your body, relationship and career, and as a result your abundance in each one soars in balance to whatever height you chose to carry them.

Scott Sonnon writes: "For some time now, people have been asking me how I have managed to come out of a destitute, abusively terrorized upbringing, put myself through University, achieve world class recognition in martial arts and fitness, establish myself as an award winning inventor, author and producer, and create an socially-transformative organization composed of tens of thousands of instructors and athletes worldwide, who have brought RMAX to hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life. Even my most critical opposition will admit that I am the most prolific individual in my field, and it is that consistently high level of quality productivity over years which people have come to expect and want in their lives as well.

More importantly in my opinion, I've proven that what I've accomplished in my life is not an isolated event, but based upon consistent, repeatable and externally-verifiable, universal principles, though obviously through a proprietary system of unique methods and techniques. I've proven this by having a staff composed of equally successful individuals and a global cadre of instructors and coaches who apply these principles to their vocation on a daily basis.

For me, fitness as a vehicle of personal transcendence is the micro of the macro. The distillation of the discoveries I've made practicing, training, competing, coaching and officiating several sports at an international level has allowed me to apply those universal laws to not only my physical vitality, or vibrance, but also to my vocation, my calling in life, and to my relationships to my friends and family, or as anthropologists call it - tribe.

It is the balance of these three (vibrance, vocation and tribe) which denotes every single successful person throughout history. Across culture, through all disciplines, throughout time, there are very specific, universal, non-dogmatic principles which have brought people to what others would describe as masterful living. It is that universal Path™ which allows one to accelerate directly to the truth of their personal goals, whatever they may be.

A famous swordsman, Myamoto Musashi, once wrote, "to master one thing, is to master 10,000." What I took from this comment was that going deeply enough into your diligent practice and study of any one discipline will give you the insights hard-wired into the Path™ of mastery of any discipline.

When I achieved an international level with one particular discipline, I applied it to several others and achieve the same heightened level of success in each.

I've had the honor of working with world class coaches, statesmen, digital tycoons, military leaders and corporate icons from around the world in many different fields, disciplines and sports. I discovered that they had made precisely parallel discoveries along their Path™ to mastery.

This congealed over the years and I actively helped others apply it to their disciplines; again with equal success in their physical vibrance, their vocational career and the strength of their relationships to their friends, family and colleagues.

That was enough external verification for me, but it wasn't until I met a man who has accomplished so much international success in his disciplines, that I began to see how this could be brought to every person, not just those who pursued physical excellence.

That man is Steve Barnes: a New York Times Best Selling Author with over 2 MILLION words published, but also a highly successful screen writer including The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Andromeda, and Stargate, as well as four episodes of the immortal Baywatch. Moreover, he and his amazing wife, Tananarive Due, are responsible for bringing one of their books to the BIG SCREEN! The man had been well world traveled, a nationally ranked martial arts competitor, and a LA yoga instructor for many years.

When I have challenges in my life, Steve is one of the handful of people I trust to give me absolutely 100% accurate feedback into my ultimate reality. By ultimate reality I mean that Steve is both totally successful in his life AND very intimately plugged in to my life goals. As a result, Steve knows exactly how to coach me so that I can remain on track, in flow and on the go. Every good coach knows that everyone needs a coach! It's what we don't see that can hurt us!

His vision into the generative, underpinning eddies of human energy fascinated me, and as a result I've spent years working with him... to culminate in this premier event."

Steve Barnes writes: “While teaching at UCLA, I accidentally discovered a `missing link’ between myth and human consciousness, a secret that has been hidden in plain sight for a thousand years.  This lead to the Lifewriting workshops, which were successful beyond my dreams.  But there was something missing, and despite the gratitude of my students, and the pleas to continue teaching the workshops, I couldn’t go on. 

It is said that you can awaken the Kundalini (Sanskrit for ‘intrinsic human energy’) starting with the heart, or starting with the body, but never ever from the ego/intellect.  And regardless of my intentions, that was what was happening.  I needed something that would change the physical energetic, and I decided to suspend teaching until I could find that thing.  Years passed, during which time I moved from Los Angeles.  I needed a slower-paced, less noisy environment to reassess my writing, teaching, and my life, and found it in Washington state.  While there, I heard stories of an incredible martial arts instructor named Scott Sonnon, and was encouraged to seek him out. 

Within moments after popping my first RMAX video, “Be Breathed,” into my VCR, I knew this was something special.  I ordered his “Flow State Performance Spiral” audio cassette, and listened to it more than fifty times, unable to believe what I was hearing: the clearest, most lucid exploration of the body-mind connection that I had ever encountered.  I had to meet Scott, and attended the inaugural CST training.  There, I confirmed my suspicion that there existed a home-grown genius in the arena of body-mind dynamics.  For the next three years I was blessed to be his private student and friend, and began to realize that if we overlapped our teachings, there was a dynamic synergy that was beyond anything I’ve ever seen.  Anywhere. 

When I understood the potential of the Fear Removal™ technique, and applied it to a phobic response I’d suffered for TWENTY FIVE YEARS, with phenomenal results, I realized that most “Self Improvement” Workshops fail because the students get hyped up for a day or weekend, and then re-enter their lives.  Everything in their ordinary lives drags them back to their former selves, unless they become “Pod People,” cult-like workshop junkies sucked into an organization that tells them that they are helpless without the guru.

I would have no part of that.  I told Scott that if he could create a technique to teach ANYONE, at any level of fitness to process that fear, and to do it in a workshop environment within two days, that it would be possible to do something no one has ever been able to do: To give students an experience of their own life mastery, lessen the fear that keeps us trapped in our old, bad habits, and then send them home with a means of anchoring that change in their bodies.

It took two years for Scott to do it, but what he has created exceeded my hopes.  Let me make it clear: the Path™ is not easy.  It is not for lazy people.  In fact, I would guess that less than 10% of the population is ready to genuinely work on themselves if that work involves taking responsibility for their bodies, their relationships, and their careers. Look around you, and you’ll see that almost everyone is “blown out” on one of those three levels.  This is hard, hard work—not physically, but emotionally.

But if you are willing, and ready, and honest, and willing to give just one hour a week for six weeks…you can set your feet on the Path™ to genuine self-discovery, success, and passion. 

There are other Ways up the mountain, to be sure.  We hope you’ll walk a few steps along the Path™ that we’ve found.  Be the hero in the adventure of your own lifetime!"

What Tools can you expect from the Workshop?

What tools and skills will you leave the workshop with to travel The Path™? Scott and Steve will be teaching you how to accelerate your journey on your Path™ to your Mastery.    Our commitment:  you will leave the workshop with:

How do I register for the The Path™ Workshop?

The Path™ IV Workshop was held in Portland, OR on February 10, 2007

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The Path™ III workshop was held in San Francisco, CA on September 30 - October 1, 2006

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The Path™ II workshop was held in Los Angeles, CA on June 24, 2006

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The inaugural workshop was held in Portland, OR on April 22, 2006

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