Day 30 – Enlighten Up!

Always looking for a good film, I saw a trailer from the independent documentary Enlighten Up! By filmmaker Kate Churchill. She insists that yoga can transform anyone and decides to prove it. She selects 29 year-old journalist, Nick Rosen as her subject and immerses him in yoga, following him until he finds a yoga practice that transforms him. Sounds like a great subject and interesting to anyone who wants to become a better, more enlightened person.

One of the clips I saw shows a Guruji who explains that it took him 6 years to gain health saying “When health was not there, what can I think of philosophy?” He goes on to state that yoga is a subjective way of eradicating the instinctive weaknesses of human being. He asserts that change has to take place, transformation has to take place for whoever it may be.

While I have always held a fascination for yoga, I have never once practiced it, nor can I claim any wisdom about it. However, the words of this guru ring so true and remind me so much of what I’m doing now with the Peak Condition Project, that I will at least look into it more closely.

As far as the movie goes, there are so many parallels between it and the peak condition project but on a more physical level. A person like myself or any one of the many PCPers are looking for transformation, to be in the peak condition of their lives and to be a better, more healthy, confident and long lasting person. But I am starting to understand that being in good shape is the first not the last step in personal fulfillment for me, a stepping stone on a long path of stones to true happiness.

I look forward to this film and wonder what a PCP documentary will look like – I think it would be very interesting indeed.

See you tomorrow.