My program is about learning to understand authentic power and how to use it. You will discover how to look inside yourself and to recognize the balance of your body, mind, soul, and spirit. This "Life Circle" program will give you the tools needed to find wellness.
What the "Life Circle"program does is show you how to stay in balance – it will be through physical exercise, mental meditation, emotional practice, spiritual awareness sessions or combinations of these.
We all have moments when one or more of the elements in our circle is weak and we have to be able to use the others to keep from spinning out of control and falling back into bad habits, depression or just giving up. I’ve worked with all ages – 5’s to plus 90’s and I know "Life Circle" makes a difference in peoples lives.
I was raised in the South with a strict Southern Baptist upbringing. I was taught a rigid belief system of right and wrong with no gray areas to be found. Even though "love and forgiveness " were the foundations of the religion, the Church did not allow for acceptance or open interpretations are and examination of different beliefs. It seemed to be a complete circle until you were outside of it.
Living in New York, I've found many loving and spiritual people who do not share my beliefs. Judging them or trying to convince them to change their beliefs felt wrong and instead, I put my spiritual life away for many years as I tried to find the truth. I began falling out of balance; I was not a perfect ball but, instead, a flat tire flopping down the highway trying not to cause a wreck.
In 2004 I began studying, Han-su Hapkido, a form of Martial Arts. Surprisingly, it became the vehicle that has allowed me to regain my spirituality and balance. “Authentic power” is the basis for my wellness and life coaching. I found through Hapkido the power of living life in the moment with positive choices and not stressing over what you cannot control. "In the moment" positive choices use: love, respect, service, humility, non-judgment, clarity, joy, forgiveness, and trust as tools to achieve authentic power.
My Mission:
I've been so blessed in my life that I need to pay that forward by finding and helping people who need to learn how to live in wellness and balance.
“JP has helped me in so many ways with his wellness program. It goes so for beyond the physical aspect of training that we all are accustom to seeing and doing.”