Client Picks for 'Extreme Health' - Raw Foods, Chakra Music, TRX Bands

Last Friday I had the good fortune to work with a new massage client who somehow started telling me about a conference she had attended on Extreme Health. Instantly intrigued (my favorite subject!), I asked her what were the stand-out things she learned there. In the course of our session, she mentioned five things:

* David Wolfe's Raw Foods nutrition advice;
* Steve Halpern's music for brain and chakra balancing;
* TRX exercise bands, the latest in functional resistance training;
* Active Isolated Stretching, Aaron Mattes' method for efficient stretching; and
* Yamuna body rolling, a fitness and therapy technique developed by a yoga instructor using specially designed balls.

Upon searching, I found that the seminar my client had attended was T. Harv Eker's Extreme Health Seminar. My client told me that the speaker who had the most impact for her by far was Raw Foods expert David Wolfe, and that much of his presentation was available on YouTube. I've just been watching these videos, and I see why this was her reaction. David Wolfe is a dynamic and believable speaker, whose life work, he says, has been to marry "you are what you eat" with "you are what you think." He is young, and his approach to what I've always considered a dry and dreadful subject - nutrition - is incredibly refreshing and uplifting. I love this guy, and am inspired by both his message and his delivery of it. David Wolfe's passion for what he does is compelling, and he makes the impossible seem not only possible but truly within reach. I find myself suddenly actually contemplating a paradigm shift in how I think and behave with regard to how I fuel my body. I second my client's recommendation to watch these videos!

I had heard of Steve Halpern's music and active isolated stretching in massage school, and both are worth knowing about {though I haven't delved into them any further at this point.} I am also familiar with Yamuna body rolling because my yoga teacher loved this specialty. I did, however, check out the TRX exercise bands, and they look fabulous. They are designed for "suspension training" and made by a company called Fitness Anywhere whose motto is "make your body your machine." The website is informative and user-friendly, with lots of FAQs and offerings. I recommend a look at it!