“Tis’ better to be opened by wonder than closed by belief”
Sensei J. Sheader

What is Spirit? It is the knock of the Zendo Han at the early dawn. It is the racing breath on the high mountain trail. It is the falcon traceless across the sky. It is the bow between opponents. It is the embrace between beloved. It is the joy of a child with their parents. It is song of the canyon wren, the exertion of the athlete, the stillness of stone, the scent of desert sage, the epiphany of the scholar, the yip of the coyote, the kensho of the warrior.

High Mesa Fitness® celebrates a earthy, naturalist , and zen inspired spirituality attended to in the here and now fusion of mind, body, earth and sky. With a Bushido like focus one’s aim is in living a virtuous, vigorous, deliberate, and joyful life. This perspective postulates that spirit is not an object but a emergent quality where discovering the sacred in one experience or locale enables one to discover it in all experiences and places.

I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined...Whether it is the godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared.
Bruce Lee