The ChiRunning River

“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond…” Rumi

About four years ago I sat in my room crosslegged meditating.

Listening to a whirling dervish trance musical spin into the unconscious.

And this sense of direction of came into me…a simple tugging…a calling for my future.

I picked up the phone as I opened my eyes and called Danny Dreyer of ChiRunning.

And told him I wanted to be a ChiRunning instructor.

He didn’t think the meditation vision was weird either. Cool. My kind of teacher.

The training was in Manhattan Beach…if it was anywhere outside of Los Angeles…I don’t think I’d have even attended.

Then after the first session…we were all partnered up to teach the script.

My first partner was Steve Mackel. He shared how he needed some help setting up a ChiRunning marathon group in Long Beach.

Somehow the topic of Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill came up.

That book has guided me like many entrepreneurs through our lives.

There’s this real cool concept in there of the Mastermind Principle. The idea works like this…when a group of people get together with a common purpose of helping one another…a third energy is created.

Like another ‘mind’…maybe the presence of God…maybe the frequencies coming together…whatever it is…it is more powerful than us individually. Great empires and business have been built with partnerships, mentors, teachers…a combination of people.

So super successful people put themselves in this Mastermind energy. Because they know the power of it.

The success of Beach Runners has been through this Mastermind principle. Through the combination of a thousand conversations between Steve and I. Through the contribution of our long time mentors like Larry, Bob, Christy, Barb, and Janet and many others.

When we sit in prayer at the end of a yoga session I invite God to join us to protect us to guide us in health and safety across the finish line.

And through all of this…magic happens. Steve and I and Beach Runners have gotten over a thousand runners over the finish line of a marathon or half marathon.

We’ve coached hundreds of people at our ChiRunning workshops.

You’re all part of a lineage of teaching that comes down not just from us but from our teachers…Danny, Steve Ilg, Rosie Good, Eben Pagen, Desikachar, Josh Waitzkin so many to mention.

You would all freak out if you saw what Steve and I spend on OUR EDUCATION every year.

We know that every dollar we spend goes back to our people our tribe. It helps people like you cross the finish line. It helps us use a system of training that makes running easy and safe.

Our teachers have taught us to teach yoga to all of you. Yoga is over 6,000 years old. It is our honor and pleasure to share this with all of you.

I haven’t been writing much lately…for I have been studying from a new teacher.

But now it is time. Time to share these ideas…these discoveries.

I teach through this blog, through Beach Runners, but also at my trail run and yoga class

http://www.socalrunning.com/yoga

Please come. You’ll learn some fantastic things and you will grow.

God Bless

Gary

July 7, 2008 | Filed Under ChiRunning, Gary's Posts 

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