Warrior Monk Method: Recovery Rooted Wellness

Warrior Monk Method: Recovery Rooted Wellness I'm a Therapeutic Mind-Body Specialist offering yoga, guided fascial stretching, holistic health consulting & more. https://linktr.ee/warriormonkmethod

🌀 Life is a flow of experience not a collection of it. Through the few years this page has been active it has continued ...
06/25/2025

🌀 Life is a flow of experience not a collection of it. Through the few years this page has been active it has continued to evolve and through my many experiences an evolution is being to take place yet again...

Each time I grab onto something it simply pulls away and so with that I am no longer going to grab onto something that cannot be held. I will no longer be offering regular yoga classes in my area.

The Warrior Monk will stay active with pop-up classes, series and special events but the main focus of this page now will be to express myself through writing and guiding those who wish to explore themselves and the world through philosophical teachings. My new site will be up and running soon with a new and improved blog section that will include short stories, poems, and updates on my upcoming books.

I will also begin to upload yoga and meditation sessions to YouTube and my website as well as schedule live yoga and meditation sessions.

This change is a simple realignment of energy and a path that will allow me to focus on the things I truly believe are what I need including more focus on my family and the act of experiencing life itself. I hope you continue to follow along and receive value in my offerings.

06/02/2025

I just wanted to let everyone one that there will be some changes coming up in my schedule. I will not longer be offering regular classes at Rock Solid on BC but I am set to have some classes pop up in the studio and some in Portage as well!

If you have some ideas on a good place to practice let me know and I can work on getting into different locations in the future.

Don't forget my July collaborative class with Luna Somatic Yoga + Wellness! A Collaborative Yoga Practice

06/02/2025

Becoming a Lens Walker: Part 5

"Life doesn't happen to you nor for you, it happens through you."

There's a certain quality of person who walks through life differently—not better or worse than others, but with a distinct awareness of their role as a conscious conduit. I call them lens walkers: those who have awakened to the truth that they are not separate from the flow of existence, but rather the very mechanism through which consciousness observes and experiences itself.

You might recognize a lens walker by how they move through challenges. Instead of asking "Why is this happening to me?" they wonder "What is this trying to express through me?" When success comes, they don't grasp it as personal achievement but receive it as energy flowing through their unique lens of experience. They understand that their individual journey serves something infinitely larger while simultaneously being utterly their own.

The path of the lens walker isn't about perfection or enlightenment—it's about conscious participation. It's waking up each day knowing that your awareness matters, that your presence creates ripples through the web of existence, that your healing serves the healing of the whole. It's recognizing that resistance and flow are both sacred, that memory serves wisdom when held lightly, and that bridges appear and dissolve in perfect timing.

This isn't a path you choose so much as recognize. You may have always felt this pull toward deeper understanding, this sense that there's more happening than meets the eye. You've likely experienced those moments of perfect flow where the boundaries between self and universe dissolve. These aren't rare mystical experiences—they're glimpses of your true nature as consciousness experiencing itself.

The lens walker's daily practice becomes a form of service. Every moment of presence, every pattern released, every fear faced contributes to the evolution of awareness itself. You are both the scientist and the experiment, the observer and the observed, the drop and the ocean.

As you continue walking this path, trust the natural rhythm of your own becoming. Notice when you're forcing versus when you're flowing. Honor the bridges that serve you and release those that no longer fit. Remember that your individual experience is both uniquely yours and part of something magnificent beyond comprehension.

What signs are you noticing that you might be walking the lens walker's path? How is life asking to flow through you in ways you haven't yet fully embraced?

06/01/2025

Becoming a Lens Walker: Part 4

"Life doesn't happen to you nor for you, it happens through you."

There's an ancient tale of a master who carried two clay vessels to the river each day. One vessel was perfect and held every drop of water. The other had cracks and leaked half its contents along the path. The cracked vessel felt ashamed, apologizing daily for its imperfection. One day, the master smiled and showed the vessel something beautiful: along the path where its water had leaked, wildflowers had bloomed. "Your cracks," the master said, "have created something more beautiful than perfection ever could."

I've been reflecting on how we carry our experiences—both the victories and the wounds. We're taught to hold onto our achievements like trophies and either suppress our struggles or wear them like armor. But what if memory serves a different purpose entirely? What if our past experiences are meant to flow through us, not stick to us?

In my practice, I've noticed something curious. The techniques I try hardest to remember often feel forced and clunky. But the movements that emerge naturally—those born from countless repetitions now lived in the body rather than stored in the mind—these flow like water. The difference is profound: one is memory trying to control the present moment, the other is wisdom expressing itself through accumulated experience.

The same is true for our emotional patterns. When we grip tightly to past hurts, they become energetic blockages, like dams stopping the river's flow. When we cling to former glories, they become prisons that prevent us from experiencing the fullness of this moment. But when we allow our experiences to inform without controlling, they become like that cracked vessel—creating unexpected beauty along the path.

This is the paradox of growth: we must fully experience life to gain wisdom, yet hold that wisdom lightly enough for it to continue evolving. Our memories become teachers when they guide without commanding, when they add depth to the present without overshadowing it. The goal isn't to forget or transcend our past, but to let it flow through us as living wisdom rather than crystallized identity.

What past experience have you been carrying as weight that might actually be ready to transform into wisdom? How might your "cracks" be creating beauty you haven't yet noticed?

05/31/2025

Becoming a Lens Walker: Part 3

"Life doesn't happen to you nor for you, it happens through you."

There's a moment in every practice when resistance appears—that precise instant when the body says "no more," when the mind screams "this is too much," when every fiber wants to quit or force through. Most of us have been taught to see this resistance as an enemy to overcome or a weakness to push past. But what if resistance is actually the natural rhythm of energy itself?

I was holding a particularly challenging pose yesterday, feeling that familiar burn of muscles protesting, when I remembered something profound: even the universe needs to breathe. The brilliant point of pure energy at the heart of existence—moving so fast it appears still—requires moments of release, of dissipation, to prevent its own collapse. Resistance isn't the opposite of flow; it's the pause that makes the music possible.

In ancient wisdom traditions, they speak of bridges—those practices, moments, or insights that connect us to deeper understanding. But here's what they rarely mention: bridges aren't permanent structures. They're temporary pathways that appear when we need them and dissolve when we don't. The breath practice that saved you last month might feel stale today. The movement that once opened your heart might now feel forced. This isn't failure—it's the natural evolution of consciousness seeking new channels of expression.

The key isn't finding the perfect bridge and clinging to it forever. It's learning to recognize when to hold on and when to let go. When to honor the resistance as sacred pause and when to gently move through it. When to return to familiar practices and when to trust the pull toward something unknown.

Your deepest wisdom lies in this dance between effort and ease, between holding and releasing. Life flows through you most clearly when you stop trying to control the current and start reading its natural rhythms. Sometimes you need the stillness of meditation. Sometimes you need the fire of intense practice. Sometimes you need the space between breaths.

What bridges have served you in the past that you might be holding onto too tightly? What new pathways is your energy trying to show you?

05/30/2025

Becoming a Lens Walker: Part 2

"Life doesn't happen to you nor for you, it happens through you."

There's an old parable about a drop of water that spent its entire existence believing it was separate from the ocean. It worried about its size, its shape, its individual journey. Only when it finally merged back into the vastness did it realize the truth—it had never been separate at all. It was always the ocean, experiencing itself as a drop.

This morning during meditation, I felt that recognition wash over me. Every breath I took, every moment of presence I cultivated, wasn't just for my own peace or growth. It was the universe experiencing itself through this particular lens of consciousness. My individual practice—whether flowing through asanas or working through a challenging guard pass—serves something infinitely larger than my personal development.

We live in a culture obsessed with individual achievement, personal transformation, self-optimization. But what if our deepest work isn't about improving ourselves at all? What if every moment we spend in conscious awareness, every pattern we heal, every limiting belief we release is actually the collective consciousness examining and evolving itself through our unique perspective?

When I sit in stillness, I'm not just calming my mind—I'm creating space for universal awareness to observe itself. When I move through recovery work, I'm not just healing my trauma—I'm allowing the shared human experience to process and integrate its shadows. Each of us is both the drop and the ocean, simultaneously insignificant and absolutely essential.

This is why your practice matters beyond what you might imagine. That moment of presence you create, that pattern you break, that fear you face—it ripples through the entire web of consciousness. You are not separate from the whole, working on yourself in isolation. You are the whole, examining itself through the lens of your individual experience.

How does it feel to consider that your personal growth work might be serving something far greater than just your individual journey?

05/29/2025

Becoming a Lens Walker: Part 1

"Life doesn't happen to you nor for you, it happens through you."

There's a moment in every practice when something shifts—when struggle transforms into dance, when technique transcends effort and becomes pure expression. It's that precise instant when we face the eternal choice: fight against the energy or become the space through which it moves.

The old masters understood something we often forget in our modern pursuit of control. We are not separate warriors battling against the forces of life. We are the very lens through which the universe experiences combat, growth, and transformation.

Think of the greatest yogis or martial artists throughout history—they didn't conquer their opponents or perfect poses so much as become perfect conduits for the energy of the moment. Bruce Lee spoke of being like water. The samurai wrote of moving with the Tao. They understood that mastery isn't about imposing your will upon reality, but about becoming so aligned with the natural flow of energy that you move as one with it.

This truth extends far beyond the mats or meditation cushion. In every moment, life is asking: Will you resist what's happening, trying to force your agenda? Or will you become the conscious space through which this experience can fully express itself? When we choose the latter, something magical occurs—we stop being victims of circumstance and become active participants in creation itself.

The warrior's path has always been about this fundamental shift in perspective. Not from weakness to strength, but from separation to unity. Not from losing to winning, but from resistance to flow. We discover that we are not fighting life—we are the very mechanism through which life experiences itself in all its complexity and beauty.

What moment in your practice revealed to you that you were not fighting against energy, but becoming the space through which it could express itself?

05/26/2025

🙏 Gratitude 🙏

For thousands of years, wisdom traditions across the globe have taught the same profound truth: gratitude transforms everything.

The Stoics of ancient Rome believed that gratitude was the key to inner peace. As Marcus Aurelius wrote, "Confine yourself to the present" and find appreciation in what is, rather than longing for what isn't.

Buddhist teachings remind us that gratitude dissolves the illusion of scarcity. When we truly see the abundance already present in our lives, suffering begins to fade.

Indigenous cultures worldwide have long practiced gratitude ceremonies, understanding that thankfulness connects us to the sacred web of life that sustains us all.

Modern science now confirms what our ancestors knew: gratitude literally rewires our brains, reduces stress, strengthens relationships, and boosts our immune systems.

☆ Gratitude Practice ☆
Each time you plan for the future or reflect on the past end those practices with one of present gratitude. Remembering what you have in your life, right now, can help you center yourself into the present allowing you to live here instead of always running from or chasing a time that doesn't exist in reality.

Ancient wisdom, modern hearts, timeless truth. 💛

What are you grateful for today? Share in the comments and spread the ripple effect of appreciation. 👇

05/25/2025

Life was never meant to be understood, it was meant to be felt."

- Alan Watts

Creating a can't miss experience!

05/25/2025

🥋⚔️ **The Dance Between** ⚡🧘‍♂️

We've been conditioned to see warrior and monk as opposites – fire and water, chaos and calm. But what if I told you they're actually two sides of the same coin?

In my own martial arts journey I can say, without my yoga practice, I couldn't sustain the intensity on the mats. The warrior needs the monk, and the monk gives birth to the warrior.

Look at the samurai – legendary fighters who cultivated deep zen practices. Their strength didn't come from endless aggression, but from the harmony between fierce action and profound stillness. The Shaolin monks embody this perfectly – masters of devastating martial arts who are equally devoted to meditation and inner cultivation.

This isn't about balance as some external force you chase. It's about recognizing that intensity and recovery aren't opposites fighting each other – they're partners in a dance. Yang without yin burns out. Yin without yang stagnates.

Your training is like meditation in motion. Your rest is where strength is born. Your fierce moments on the mat teach you about your gentle moments in stillness.

At Warrior Monk Method, we don't just train bodies – we cultivate beings who understand that true power comes from embracing the full spectrum of who we are. To use the body and mind to capacity we must heal them to capacity.

The warrior protects what the monk holds sacred. 🛡
The monk sustains what the warrior fights for. 🌎 ❤

05/21/2025

🧘‍♂️ Coming in June 🧘‍♂️

Sit back, relax and explore your inner landscape.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you ventured into a dark cave without light? When that dark cave is yourself...
05/19/2025

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you ventured into a dark cave without light? When that dark cave is yourself, you become the light you need to illuminate your path.

My mentor and beloved father figure, Coyote Chris Sutton, was a master at bringing light to the shadowed places, both within and out into the world. He held sacred space as that guiding light for others until they discovered their own inner flame. While my methods may differ from his approach, his wisdom and spiritual insights are the foundation of my practice today.

Yoga has been a transformative journey for me, and I cherish sharing this practice with those who wish to explore their inner landscape. I now see that my calling is expanding to working more intimately with individuals—beginning with the body and breath, then journeying together hand-in-hand into those inner caves of self-discovery. I feel his guiding presence beside me in this sacred work.

💫 Your Journey Begins Here 💫

¤ Just beginning your exploration?
Join me for my regularly scheduled yoga classes. New students use code SAVE50

¤ Seeking connection with nature?
Elemental: Outdoor Summer Yoga offers a beautiful opportunity to practice under the open sky.

¤ Focusing on physical practice?
Experience my ground movement classes: Ground Flow Yoga BC Ground Flow Yoga

¤ Ready to journey deeper?
I invite you to contact me for private sessions in fascial release, sound healing work, and philosophical meditations Call: 269-528-2571

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