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Mission Statement
The ultimate goal of BioFit is to optimize the health and growth of the greatest number of people by helping them form, achieve, and maintain their goals within the broader contexts of holistic health and personal growth, the ‘horizontal’ and ‘vertical’ dimensions of a greater integral fitness. The aim of integral fitness is to embrace all legitimate aspects of human health and development under the broad evolutionary ‘fitness’ meme that subsumes both and enjoys wide positive currency.

This broad and worthy end is achieved through the comprehensive integration of all relevant sciences, methodologies, and technologies into a holistic total solution that is then scientifically customized for each person according to their unique combination of types, differences, preferences, and goals*. The most urgent application of an integral fitness is to address the overweight/obesity epidemic now effecting about one billion people worldwide, so BioFit is pioneering a revolutionary integral approach to weight fitness that can also serve as the foundation of an integral transformative practice for balanced growth and whole-life fitness.

*Since the goal of integral fitness is broad in scope, yet modular in design and choice of options, several sciences are employed in its pursuit: environmental health, toxicology, sports nutrition, exercise physiology, neuroendocrinology, epidemiology (re: degenerative diseases), immunology, gerontology, life-extension sciences, existential & humanistic psychology, health psychology, exercise/sports psychology, and others. These sciences currently find their application in several technologies dedicated to the actualization of various dimensions of human potential.

BioFit integrates the principles of these apparently disparate fields of knowledge, each corresponding to a single dimension of health & fitness, into a cohesive, comprehensive whole. It then applies these universal principles to individual clients according to their particular variables ascertained through advanced customization techniques. Accordingly, BioFit is affiliated with, and/or utilizes the resources of, a diverse body of leading health & fitness organizations ranging from the conservative to the alternative:

University of California/Berkeley School of Public Health
Center for Science in the Public Interest
IDEA Health & Fitness Association
American Dietetic Association (ADA)
American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
American Council on Exercise (ACE)
National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA)
Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research (CIAR)
Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA)
American Association of Lifestyle Counselors (AALC)
Cognitive Enhancement Research Institute (CERI)
USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
Life Extension Foundation (LEF)
American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M)
American College of Advancement in Medicine (ACAM)
The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)
Esalen Institute
Integral Institute

BioFit is a sponsor of Integral Institute, a founding member of The World Wisdom Alliance, and the founder of ONESantaFe.

About ‘Dr. Jeff,’ Santa Fe's Holistic Fitness Guru™
Hello, I help people lose weight and feel great through holistic integration and scientific customization. I’m a holistic fitness consultant, trainer, and coach specializing in natural, healthy, sustainable weight fitness with over ten years of experience working with people one-on-one to help them reach their goals, fulfill their potential, and improve their lives with comprehensive solutions customized to fit each unique person.

My initial interest in fitness evolved from my background in classical ballet, modern dance, soccer, and swimming. My early involvement in dance especially inspired a deep appreciation for the capacities of the human body and the closely related beauty of the human form. It greatly influenced my regard for physical fitness, aesthetic value, and the importance of the mind-body relationship in the neural pathways developed for the necessary motor control and total awareness of the body.

Dance requires all the components of fitness: strength, speed, power, endurance, flexibility, balance, coordination, agility, and body composition. According to a study conducted by Dr. James Nicholas, among sixty-one sports and activities evaluated on criteria including strength, speed, and agility, ballet was judged the second most demanding activity, scoring just one point below professional football.

I continued my interest in fitness while in college where I trained a girlfriend for the Miss Alabama fitness contest where she won third place in her first contest after nine months of intensive training. I also choreographed her stage performance for the competition. However, my interests extended beyond physical culture—in pursuing a liberal education, I was concerned with developing my fullest potential. I was, and am still, fascinated by the relationship between physical fitness and mental fitness united in the concept of holistic fitness, the foundation of a broad, full life.

There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a person who combines the possession of moral goodness in his soul
with the outward beauty of his body.
Plato

I’ve always been captivated by the apparently unlimited possibilities of human potential, expressed on an individual level in my passionate pursuit of personal growth, and on a social level in my work on behalf of social progress through education and progressive public policy. Personal growth and social progress are parallel developmental processes—the ontogenetic and phylogenetic dimensions of development—that have as their ultimate ends the full realization of human potential in the individual and social dimensions of life.

I’m especially interested in the connection between these two—the close relationship between self-actualization and the resulting enhanced ability to effect social progress made possible by actualized potential. Personal growth and social progress are inextricably bound: while personal growth is the pursuit
of fulfillment, meaning, and happiness at the personal level of complexity, it also benefits one in advancing social progress, which develops human potential at the social level.

The empirical fact is that self-actualizing people, our best experiencers, are also our most compassionate, our great improvers and reformers of society, our most effective fighters against injustice, inequality, slavery, cruelty, exploitation (and also our best fighters for excellence, effectiveness, competence). And it also becomes clearer and clearer that the best "helpers" are the most fully human persons. What I may call the bodhisattvic path is an integration of self-improvement and social zeal, i.e., the best way to become a better "helper" is to become a better person. But one necessary aspect of becoming a better person is via helping other people. So one must and can do both simultaneously.
Abraham Maslow, Father of Humanistic & Transpersonal Schools of Psychology

The importance of this close relationship was highlighted by a notable study on leadership in which historians and political scientists were surveyed regarding the most important factors for success in public life. Interestingly, the single most important factor was the energy and stamina of the leader, confirming the observation of the philosopher Locke:

How necessary health is to our business and happiness, and how requisite a strong constitution, able to endure
hardships and fatigue, is to one that will make any figure in the world.
Locke

I served in the 3rd U.S. Infantry, the Army’s most elite unit and where I started meditating, to put myself through college where I was elected Vice President of the student body and graduated with honors with a broad liberal arts education. I then served as an Economic Policy Advisor to U.S. Senator Howell Heflin (D-AL) for eight years. Among the thousands of interesting people I met in Washington, the two that stand out are President Clinton and especially The Dalai Lama.

On Capitol Hill I experienced this close relationship between fitness and the ability to serve social progress
in the careers of the Senators with whom I worked. It’s no coincidence that the President pro Tempore of the Senate, the most senior senator, did calisthenics and swam laps every day while those Senators who retired prematurely most often did so for health reasons. My Hill experience provided a unique vantage point to witness the vital importance of fitness and longevity in the ability of leaders to shape the course of events and advance human progress. I saw this connection in my own work as well—while working on the Hill I was also a semi-professional ballet & modern dancer for Virginia Ballet and Ravel Dance Company, culminating with the lead role of 'Phantom' in a dance production of "The Phantom of the Opera" performed at Wolf Trap.

Though my years in D.C. were great, when I reached the limits of working for someone else I decided it was time to live my dreams so I moved to sunny Santa Fe to go to grad school at St. John’s College and to create something new. While in grad school I began the post-professional 'free agent' stage of my career by starting BioFit, the practice I’m building to bring the integral worldview into the fitness arena by expanding the fitness concept to subsume both ‘horizontal’ holistic health and ‘vertical’ personal growth—horizontal translation and vertical transformation—by promoting and facilitating balanced growth for whole-life fitness, hence the name Bio-Fit. My clientele has included a Vice President of Intel, successful entrepreneurs, famous artists, professors, psychiatrists, physicians, students, and people from 12-87 from all walks of life.

The freedom and responsibility to direct your own career and create your own destiny into an open future
as a self-employed free agent is awesome. Free agency allows me to pursue authentic meaningful work and practice right livelihood as an important part of a lifestyle of creative contribution and voluntary simplicity.
I’m a self-made man who absolutely believes in the power to manifest dreams and to create a preferred future because I’ve done it and I help others do it. Nominated “the best personal trainer in Santa Fe” for an article in the British travel magazine Tatler, pioneering my original and unique nondual/integral approach
to weight loss and whole-life fitness is an exciting and rewarding way to serve others as a change agent:
I greatly enjoy inspiring people to help them reach their goals, fulfill their potential, and improve their lives.

Namaste

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius

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In the photos at the top of the page: Jean, my first trainee, in a fitness contest; Jeff with Sen. & Mrs. Heflin on the Capitol steps; Jeff and another dancer ham it up backstage after "The Phantom of the Opera" at Wolf Trap; and Jeff training Lillian in Santa Fe.

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