The Spiritual Martial Art Center

I'm in a building that is the practice center for a spiritual martial art form.

It combines prayer, meditation and fasting with high intensity fitness
training, weights, running, boxing, mixed martial arts and survival
skills.

I am exploring the different rooms in the building getting a feel for
how this place runs and the beliefs and practices that they follow.

They have a regular one day a week where they fast and just drink water.

There are different levels to the disciplines and practices they do. I
meet one of the head figures for the spiritual center and she tells me
that the big initiation is to do a 6 week fast with no food. Only
water and prayer, and to stay in one room for all that period praying.

I think I would not mind doing a one day fast a week but 6 weeks
without food and contact with people sounds too much.

I explore the building, and its a mix of meditation rooms with altars
and fitness sports gyms with lots of equipment in.

I join a group of people who are doing some fitness training and chat
to them. One guy is telling me how he is so much fitter and healthier
than he used to be. He was a business man who used to sit in front of
a screen all day long, and now he goes out for runs and does MMA. His
body is very muscular.

I now go out with a bunch of kids running down a slope and skidding
and sliding. We are pretending that we are skiing because in the
winter when the snows come, this is a classic skiing place.

This one kid I'm with has super intuitive abilities.