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WARNING:This program may cause weight loss.
But Svelte in Seven is not a diet plan or any such thing.
There will be no prescribed menu, calorie-counting crusade or moral investigation of an innocent piece of sliced cheese.
This is a seven-week Mystic Body Method training in:
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Self-study.
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True form.
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Inner state.
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Core power.
You may arrive wanting to lose twenty or thirty pounds. That is a perfectly legitimate desire.
But what if becoming svelte is not only about becoming smaller?
What if it means becoming sleeker, smoother, stronger, more fluid and less encumbered?
What if the body you want is not another body—but your own body, more fully inhabited?
IT'S NOT JUST WHAT YOU EAT.
IT'S WHAT STATE YOU'RE IN WHEN YOU EAT IT.
Nebraska? Ohio? Boston? South Dakota?
No.
Under-standing your state of being can be remarkably elusive. But once the elusive becomes obvious, it becomes a matter of fact.
You no longer have to fight yourself, control every habitual proclivity or attempt to intimidate your metabolism into submission.
You can begin to see what is actually happening—and make the smallest meaningful change from there.
What state of being are you in?
Are you hungry—or hurried?
Are you nourished, depleted, distracted, anxious, rewarded, lonely, braced or completely elsewhere?
What state entered the kitchen?
What state chose the food?
What state determined the pace, quantity and stopping point?
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SVELTE IS A QUALITY,
NOT A SIZE.
Skinny describes size.
Svelte describes how you inhabit and move through the world.
A person can be skinny and rigid, exhausted, disconnected and perpetually fighting gravity.
Another person can be substantial, strong, fluid, balanced, mobile—and decidedly svelte.
Svelte is not an instruction to become a smaller woman.
It is an invitation to become a more fully inhabited human.
A rather in-teresting vertical terrestrial vertebrate human who can live and enjoy their true core desires.
THE PROGRAM
SEVEN
STEPPING STONES
You are not being handed seven commandments, seven restrictions or seven new ways to judge yourself.
Each week offers a stepping stone: a particular inquiry, a direct bodily experience and something real to carry into everyday life.
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YOU CAN IMAGINE ANY OUTCOME
Before pursuing another borrowed goal, we locate what you actually desire.
What do you imagine changing?
How would you move, breathe, eat and live if that change were already underway?
This is where the expected outcome begins giving way to your true core desire.
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THE BODY HAS A METHOD
Your body is not a failed project awaiting stricter management.
It is an intelligent organism with its own methods of breathing, organizing, adapting, compensating and communicating.
We begin listening underneath the noise.
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YOU CAN LEAD A SPINE TO WATER, BUT YOU CANNOT MAKE IT ARTICULATE
More effort does not automatically produce more freedom.
You will explore support, gravity, mobility and the difference between forcing the body into position and creating the conditions in which movement can occur.
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DIAPHRAGMATICAL INHABITATIONAL TRANSLATIONS
Your breath is not merely air moving in and out of your lungs.
It influences pressure, posture, the spine, the nervous system and your felt sense of occupying your own body.
You will begin translating breath into inhabitation.
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THE EOOE IN THE KITCHEN
The Elusive Obvious Obvious Elephant has entered the kitchen.
Food matters—but the state of the organism eating it matters too.
We bring awareness to appetite, habit, pace, choice, satisfaction and the many things that can look like hunger from across the room.
No food is placed on trial.
SITTING AT THE THIRD-EYE WINDOW
You cannot recognize a state while being completely swallowed by it.
This stepping stone develops the ability to notice sensation, thought, impulse and behavior as they happen—without immediately controlling, obeying or judging them.
THE ZERO-SUM GAME AND SOME OTHER TIDBITS
This is not the finish line. It is where the seven weeks become usable beyond the seven weeks.
We gather what changed, what became obvious, what remains elusive and what you now know how to notice for yourself.
You leave with a way of continuing—not another temporary regime to maintain.
THE GROUND BENEATH
THE PROGRAM
The unusual SV at the beginning of svelte has an accidental but meaningful neighbor.
In Sanskrit, sva refers to the self, one's own or that which belongs to one's own nature.
Svādhyāya: self-study.
Svarūpa: true form.
Svabhāva: inner state or one's own nature.
Svadhā: one's own distinct power.
But the coincidence points directly toward the ground beneath this work:
Study yourself.
Discover your own form.
Recognize your inner state.
Activate your innate true core power.
The word svelte does not come from Sanskrit. Nobody is attempting to manufacture an ancient lineage for a seven-week Zoom program.
THE OFFER UP
SEVEN WEEKS OF PERSONAL
MYSTIC BODY METHOD TRAINING
Svelte in Seven is a private, one-to-one experience conducted live on Zoom.
This is not a prerecorded course in which you are left alone with forty-seven videos and an increasingly judgmental password.
Each week, we meet the body and the person who are actually present. The framework remains consistent. The application is entirely personal.
Your Seven Weeks Include:
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Seven private live Zoom sessions of approximately [SESSION LENGTH]
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A personal opening inquiry to identify your desired outcome and the desire beneath it
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Seven progressive MBM stepping stones
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Breath, posture, spinal articulation, grounding and true-core practices adapted to your body
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State-based inquiry into eating, appetite, habit and choice
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Simple experiments to bring into standing, walking, sitting, sleeping and eating
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The developing Svelte in Seven Compendium
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The Semi-Pro Log for recording observations without becoming unnecessarily professional
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Personal guidance between sessions through [EMAIL, TEXT OR VOICE NOTES—CHOOSE METHOD]
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A final integration and individual continuation map developed during the seventh session
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You want to lose weight but do not want another diet.
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You feel disconnected from your body or perpetually at odds with it.
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You understand what you are "supposed" to do but cannot make the knowledge become lived experience.
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You brace, rush, tighten or hold without realizing it.
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Your eating changes with stress, fatigue, loneliness, distraction or reward.
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You want to feel stronger, more fluid, more balanced and more at home in yourself.
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You are curious about what might exist beneath the outcome you think you want.
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You are willing to notice rather than merely control.
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You want a rigid meal plan.
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You want calories, points or mandatory weigh-ins.
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You want somebody to shame you into compliance.
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You expect seven weeks of punishment disguised as discipline.
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You are looking for a guaranteed number on the scale.
Weight loss may occur. It is not promised, prescribed or used as the sole measure of transformation.
WHAT COULD CHANGE
IN SEVEN WEEKS?
You may notice that you breathe differently.
You may begin recognizing your state before it becomes a behavior.
You may stand, sit and walk with less unnecessary holding.
You may experience hunger, appetite and satisfaction more clearly.
You may become stronger without becoming harder.
You may move with more fluidity and less negotiation
You may lose weight.
You may discover that the body you were trying to control has a method of its own.
Svelte in Seven brings that inquiry into seven weeks of personal training, self-study and direct bodily experience.
The objective is not to manufacture a new you.
It is to help the actual you become more available.
A RESPONSIBLE LITTLE NOTE
Svelte in Seven is an educational coaching and movement program. It is not medical care, psychotherapy, nutritional treatment or a substitute for advice from a qualified healthcare professional. Individual experiences and weight changes vary. Please consult an appropriate professional regarding medical conditions, injuries, eating disorders or other health concerns before beginning.