Guiding Principals

Grit

Many have been raised to avoid discomfort. Although intuitively sensible, we often develop patterns of thinking and behaving that take it too far, contributing to a dearth of the mental, physical and emotional resilience needed to navigate the ebbs and flows of life.

Discomfort is a universal human experience. If harnessed well, it can serve as a catalyst for growth in mind and body. Without the willingness to work with it, making positive and lasting changes in your health, fitness, and life can be difficult, if not impossible.

Project Re-humanize aims to elicit discomfort in the training environment to better prepare you for the challenges you’ll encounter in competition and other areas of your life.

Grace

Too often health and fitness routines blast us with intensity. There’s certainly a place for bootcamp and HITT style workouts—they’re among my favorite—but a gentler approach is often best. This is especially true for beginners using fitness as an avenue to enhance their mental health.

Project Re-humanize seeks to minimize unnecessary—yet common—obstacles standing between your present state and one of optimal wellness in mind and body. Training will take you out of your comfort zone, potentially eliciting insecurities and self-limiting beliefs, but you will be taught to navigate them with grace and compassion.

Growth

Our confidence is influenced by our history and how we’ve managed past challenges. Often, a hefty price is paid for failure or avoidance; even if we do show up and make it through a challenging time, our confidence could remain bruised.

Project Re-humanize is rooted in an understanding that your heart and mind play an important role in building your confidence and growth. Regardless of your history and current state, you will learn how to dare for greatness.

Congruence

We can be fit while practicing poor sleeping habits; fit while eating a poor diet; fit without healthy coping skills to deal with life’s stressors. On the other hand, we can sleep well and be atrophied; eat well and have poor circulation, cope with stress and be overweight.

Project Re-humanize seeks to develop awareness, appreciation, and skills needed to nurture a balanced lifestyle, crucial to establishing and maintaining wellness in mind and body.

Community

Better people make better communities; better communities make better people.

Project Re-humanize is informed by an eco-centric lens, one that acknowledges we share a common ground (the earth), and contribute—however large or small—to the the state of our habitat; that goodness and betterment, now more than ever, ought to be determined based on its impact on the community of life rather than individuals alone. Community is understood as a social fabric whose threads acknowledge—though carefully pierce—the boundaries separating humans from one another and their environment.

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”
― Chief Seattle