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Bridging the Gap between Body and Mind

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We are all athletes, with the ability to excel in our lives, in sport, work, living and fulfilling our passions. Some of us are sportspeople competing professionally, some are athletes performing at high levels during their free time after work and others are operating at a high level across all areas of life simultaneously; family, businesses, personal goals and adventures. Whether you are a team or an individual wanting to raise your game, you want to engage in training and coaching which unifies your system in a balanced way, raising all life aspects simultaneously with the knowledge to sustain. As with all our coaching it’s about putting the knowledge, skills, awareness and power into your hands. Athlete training at Five Rings Training encompasses a fully unified programme of lifestyle, mental habits and beliefs, competitive training psychology, nutrition, time management, sleep coaching, whole body wellbeing, physical and energetic advancement as well as strengthening the

Pedagogies: Learning to Action

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The route from Learning to Understanding is one we test carefully at Five Rings Training to ensure what is to be learnt is absorbed into the system: not simply facts to remember, but actual knowledge which becomes thinking tools and heightened awareness. Knowledge > Tools + Awareness It is not a process which goes from one stage of learning to another: it is an embodied comprehensive approach with intention which is identified at the outset of the learning process to predetermine the scope of the outcomes. Learning to Understanding to Action Learning to Understanding is vital for subject matter to be applicable. Learning to Action, which goes further, demands the individual can grasp the learning in such a way that we can guarantee outcomes. By outcomes we mean the ability to build, develop, take the process forward, apply the principles, utilise beyond the subject matter. To give one simple example: some of the students who train with us state they have applied the