Compare weight loss & fitness options The best place to start is to first consider the primary causes of weight gain and poor fitness: How well do conventional approaches address the causes?  Current approaches are fragmented and incomplete. The solution to fragmentation is combination  Complex problems require complete solutions. BioFit brings it all together into a total solution. But combination is not the same as integration The whole is more than the sum of its parts. Aristotle, Metaphysics Integration requires seeing the problem through the lens of integral perspectivism whereby various solutions to the causes are recognized as parts of a larger whole, revealing systemic components not previously addressed by any of the fragmented approaches. The whole solution is indeed more than the sum of its parts:  Whole people need holistic solutions. BioFit integrates the fragmented parts into a whole system. A more thorough comparison of your options 1 BioFit’s systemic neurotransmitter and hormonal optimization strategies are smart natural lifestyle changes, no drugs are used. 2 Their basic programs are tax-deductible, but their prepackaged foods and supplements are not. 3 Personal training is tax-deductible only if training is specifically for weight-loss, or for some other degenerative condition such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, osteoporosis, sarcopenia, arthritis, etc. for which exercise is prescribed as treatment. 4 BioFit recommends but does not sell any food, supplement, or exercise products, assuring objective professional advice unclouded by possible conflicts of interest. 5 BioFit’s Customized Program, Coaching, & Training Makeover Packages of 12-weeks and longer are guaranteed. The BioFit approach: the philosophy of integral fitness Welcome to a refreshing 21st century integral approach to weight loss and whole-life fitness that celebrates life in all its radiant beauty, diversity of form, underlying unity, depth of potential, and fullness of being! BioFit is the state-of-the-art in fitness: holistic in scope, customized in content, modular in design, flexible in delivery, practical in application, and sustainable over time within the larger contexts of environment and community we're embedded in as parts of larger wholes. Some background on the health & fitness industry that produces your current options: Problem: severe fragmentation What we have today in the loose and incoherent health & fitness industry is severe fragmentation. Due to traditional disciplinary boundaries we have structural ‘stovepipes’ each offering a true but very partial approach to health problems and fitness solutions: we have specialists in the various sciences such as nutritionists, exercise physiologists, health psychologists, sports psychologists, and their counterparts in the applied technologies: registered dietitians, personal trainers, health coaches, and life coaches each specializing in a single dimension of human experience offering partial solutions from narrow disciplines. They don’t talk to each other. They can’t really due to largely incommensurate terminology and jargon barriers, and they have little professional incentive to communicate anyway; their education, experience, journals, incentive structures, and career paths tend to be narrowly intradisciplinary rather than broadly inter- or multi-disciplinary. Worse, there’s a tendency among many to believe their specialization is the only or most important one to the exclusion of other specializations addressing other dimensions of total experience. Worse still, within each specialized discipline are schools of thought who tend to think their particular philosophy, methodology, or ideology within their specialization is the one true or correct way. If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. Abraham Maslow1 In this fractured state the interrelationships between fields of learning are lost and knowledge is not seen as a unified whole, a widespread condition in the modern age of specialization the Spanish philosopher José Ortega Y Gasset referred to as the “barbarism of specialization:” The scientist who is only acquainted with one science, and even of that one only knows the small corner in which he is an active investigator … even proclaims it as a virtue that he takes no cognizance of what lies outside the narrow territory specially cultivated by himself, and gives the name of “dilettantism” to any curiosity for the general scheme of knowledge … This new barbarian is above all the professional man, more learned than ever before, but at the same time more uncultured … Civilization has had to await the beginning of the twentieth century to see the astounding spectacle of how brutal, how stupid, and yet how aggressive is the man learned in one thing and fundamentally ignorant of all else. Professionalism and specialism, through insufficient counterbalancing, have smashed the [modern] man into pieces; and he is consequently missing at all the points where he claims to be, and is badly needed. José Ortega Y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses and Mission of the University The compartmentalization of the various dimensions of human experience into manageable pieces and parts is necessary for the advancement of knowledge in each of those parts—naturally, no single person can know everything in every field—so specialization in the research enterprise is necessary and desirable. The problem is that no one is pulling all the pieces back together again for holistic application to whole people. As long as specialists just treat parts and pieces of whole human beings, the compartmentalized treatments are not merely partial and incomplete, worse, they can be reductionistic, insulting, and ultimately dehumanizing to patients and practitioners alike: Related to that difficult issue of how to define or even locate ‘illness’ is the converse and equally impossible dilemma: what do we mean by ‘health’? Once it is understood that a human being is not simply an assemblage of parts, but contains emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions that cannot be reduced without remainder to material processes, then what exactly does ‘health’ mean in such a multidimensional being? How many levels of complexity—physical, emotional, mental, spiritual—should be treated? Can I be healthy if I am spiritually malnourished? If a Nazi’s blood tests come back completely normal, is that person healthy? … And there is the painful dilemma: as a professional, you might indeed have to specialize in one particular area and ignore and compartmentalize all others; but as a human being, you simply cannot do so and retain any sort of basic sanity or decency. The more effective you are as a health professional, the less a human being you often find yourself becoming. Ken Wilber, Foreword to Consciousness & Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine While we certainly need the great contributions of highly trained specialists expert in their vocational/professional skills for accumulating data in the various fields of learning, we more importantly need liberally educated generalists expert in the creative integration and application of knowledge to whole human beings in the proactive fitness and personal growth arena, similar to the general practitioner or family physician model in medicine. Unfortunately, there is currently no discipline, degree, or profession called ‘health,’ ‘fitness,’ ‘weight loss,’ or ‘personal growth’ that brings all the related but currently separated specializations together into a multidisciplinary vehicle for whole human beings. This is a major problem. The current fragmented, fractured health & fitness industry is inadequate to serving whole multidimensional human beings. Solution: Integral Methodological Pluralism Not only do each of these traditional fields of human inquiry offer partial truths, pieces of a larger picture of human potential, but each school of thought within each discipline also has something to offer, a different perspective and voice that has survived the test of time and deserves inclusion, deserves a place at an inclusive table of human potential, so to speak, in order to honor the contributions of each. In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. John Stuart Mill Perspectives that lack evidence or efficacy tend to be selected out of existence over time, while those that survive do so because they speak to fundamental truths for a significant number of people, sometimes just certain ‘types’ of people who respond best to approaches appropriate to them but perhaps not to others, and such approaches, subject, of course, to rigorous validation by communal confirmation or rejection based on reproducible evidence and falsifiability to separate legitimate knowledge from mere untethered belief, cannot be excluded from due consideration and appropriate integration into a larger whole. If legitimate approaches are excluded due to narrow ideology, your solution is not truly inclusive, comprehensive, holistic, integral. Everybody is right. Everybody has a grain of truth that has to be included … No human mind can produce 100% error. Or, we might joke, nobody’s smart enough to be wrong all the time. Therefore, every single major approach to human knowledge has some degree of truth, and the integral approach insists upon honoring those truths. The tricky part then is how they all fit together, and that’s where the game gets interesting. But it’s an entirely different kind of game to play. Usually if you go to school in philosophy, or go to school in psychology, or in any of the disciplines—if you take up a school of psychotherapy, for example, they’ll spend a great deal of time telling you why the other schools of thought are mistaken … We don’t take that approach. For us, every single approach has to have some grain of truth, and so now you’re asking a different question and you’re playing a different game, and the game here is: how do they all fit together into a larger coherent structure that honors all these important insights? Ken Wilber2 An evolutionary, integral epistemology makes room for the findings of each of these disciplines and the schools of thought within them in a larger picture, map, or model of possible solutions, excluding no legitimate approaches or dimensions of total experience, only their exclusive claims to absoluteness. Beyond interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary, the BioFit approach is explicitly cross-disciplinary or transdisciplinary, transcending traditional disciplinary boundaries, ideologies, and cognitive blinders in order to see whole multidimensional solutions for whole multidimensional people. This is possible because it’s built on a broad theoretical structure based on fundamental dimensions of human existence and experience—not from any one of the modern sciences integrated, but from postmodern philosophy that integrates and transcends them. Matter and form are inseparably correlative. Matter without form is unintelligible; form without matter is empty. Form gives intelligibility to matter; matter gives content to form. This insight about form and matter has relevance for us in our consideration of the forms of learning and of the subject matters that they inform, or to which they give form … Which forms are truly transcendental in the sense of being applicable to all other forms of learning considered as subject matter and, in addition, reflexively applicable to themselves? … History is thus seen to be a truly transcendental form of learning, both universally applicable to all forms of learning and even reflexively applicable to itself [historiography]. The same holds true for philosophy. We can speak of the philosophy of other disciplines—the philosophy of history, the philosophy of science, the philosophy of poetry or art, the philosophy of law, the philosophy of medicine. We can also speak reflexively of the philosophy of philosophy itself … when the form of learning that is philosophy is applied reflexively to philosophy itself as a discipline … Science as a form does not take other disciplines, second-intentionally regarded, as subject matter … There can be no science of philosophy as there can be a philosophy of science—no scientific understanding of philosophy as there can be a philosophical understanding of science … There is certainly no science of science—no scientific approach to the study of science as a discipline in itself … Science falls far short of being a transcendental form like history and philosophy … As truly transcendental forms of learning, history, philosophy, and poetry [the humanities] are coordinate with one another. Science, not being a transcendental form of learning, is not coordinate with them. However, science is a basic form of learning even if it is not a transcendental form. Mortimer Adler, A Guidebook to Learning for the Lifelong Pursuit of Wisdom3 You still have to go out and do art, you still have to go out and do morals, you still have to go out and do science [arts, morals, and science; the beautiful, the good, and the true; self, culture, and nature; Buddha, Sangha, and Dharma; jnana, bhakti, and karma yoga; etc., all variations on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person perspectives]. Philosophy has always been the coordinator of these. Philosophy has always stood back and said, “This is how they all fit together,” and this is driven out of a sense of wonder about, “Why am I here?” and “What’s going on?” and the really deep fundamental questions that human beings ask. Ken Wilber, in interview for Return to Source: Philosophy and The Matrix Integral Perspectivism: “The science of the whole4” There are at least eight major perspectives of an integral epistemology, the ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ perspectives of each of the four fundamental dimensions of human experience expressed through the pronouns used cross-culturally in all natural languages: objective, interobjective, subjective, and intersubjective; or the behavioral, social, intentional, and cultural aspects or facets of life. These perspectives are revealed, disclosed, studied, and in fact enacted by the following reliable modes of inquiry, tools of knowledge acquisition, methodologies, injunctions, or paradigms from the various branches of learning for obtaining reproducible evidence-based knowledge from verifiably repeatable experiences, which when combined provide a multidimensional view of any occasion, event, process, system, or moment in time, listed from the simplest to the most complex: traditional empirical science the cognitive sciences systems & complexity theory social autopoiesis structuralism phenomenology ethnomethodology hermeneutics With philosophy being the branch of knowledge that integrates the findings of the various methodologies into a cohesive whole5. Any of these methodologies or injunctions in isolation reveals only a narrow or shallow slice of life resulting in partial solutions at best, or harmful solutions at worst if the other neglected components are glossed over with a false sense of security provided by specialists more loyal to their particular professions, methodologies, or ideologies than to the whole people for whom the professions exist to serve. An approach that leaves out any of these important paradigms or perspectives is inadequate according to available knowledge at this point in time. Any responsible approach that claims to improve life must be as broad as life itself. The word integral means comprehensive, inclusive, nonmarginalizing, embracing. Integral approaches to any field attempt to be exactly that—to include as many perspectives, styles, and methodologies as possible within a coherent view of the topic. In a certain sense, integral approaches are "meta-paradigms," or ways to draw together an already existing number of separate paradigms into an interrelated network of approaches that are mutually enriching. Ken Wilber, Foreword, in Frank Visser, Ken Wilber: Thought As Passion These methodologies can all be integrated into a meta-methodology if only their tendencies to narrow exclusiveness are excluded and conventional disciplinary blinders and loyalties to particular methods yielding partial truths are replaced by loyalty to the larger ends served equally by all such means, methods, and modes: knowledge, understanding, and wisdom and their practical application to whole, unique people and their complex multidimensional problems, goals, roles, and lives. The whole is more than the sum of its parts. Aristotle, Metaphysics The desire and pursuit of the whole is called love. Love is the pursuit of the whole. Plato, Symposium The highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those worldly sciences of physics, chemistry, and the like, into which intellectual knowledge is divided. The highest wisdom is one. The highest wisdom has but one science—the science of the whole . . . Tolstoy, War and Peace When integral methodological pluralism is applied to health & fitness, it yields the following sciences, technologies, and modalities that can all contribute to a comprehensive weight loss, physical fitness, or whole-life fitness program found nowhere else: All of these methods are brought together for the first time as components of a larger integral fitness approach to weight loss, physical fitness, and whole-life fitness. Each is a tool in the integral fitness toolbox for helping people reach their goals. Many don’t need or want each tool, but at least they’re available. BioFit integrates the general orientations and applications of these related but separated fields by means of integral perspectivism, and screens for special needs that can only be adequately served by highly trained and experienced specialists in each of the component disciplines. BioFit is building a network of the top conventional, alternative, complementary, and integrative specialists across the human sciences and technologies for the more in-depth focus specialists can provide as needed by clients. BioFit integrates and applies these methods developmentally to lead you from wellness to fitness, but if you have therapeutic needs that require remedial attention to first bring you from illness to wellness I’ll refer you to the appropriate specialists— ‘horizontal’ health is a prerequisite for ‘vertical’ growth. These diverse techniques and technologies are integrated through an epistemological stance or frame of mind I refer to as ‘open-minded healthy skepticism’ in contrast to either narrow-minded skepticism on the one hand, or open-minded gullibility on the other. Both of the latter suffer from a cognitive bias called ‘confirmation bias’ whereby one’s mind is already made up and one seeks evidence to substantiate one’s views while overlooking or ignoring evidence to the contrary. Open-minded healthy skepticism is genuinely open to all approaches from all sources as the first step, but then scrutinizes them in the light of evidence to discern between those that work in practice from those that may sound good but don’t actually work. It seems to me that discriminating or discerning wisdom consists of both steps: 1) the open-minded gathering of all possible approaches, as well as 2) their rigorous pragmatic scrutiny to separate the wheat from the chaff. The result is a broad, diverse body of evidence-based validated approaches in an integral fitness toolbox that can be applied to a wide range of people with different needs and goals. This ‘middle way’ avoids the extremes of either narrow ideology- or methodology-based toolboxes or eclectic grab-bags of wishful thinking that don’t discern time-tested techniques that work from passing fads and fashions that don’t. BioFit’s guarantee of results provides risk insurance for clients as well as a self-imposed discipline to search for methods that may work and to focus only on those that actually do. The process is evolutionary: differentiate & integrate, negate & preserve, transcend & include. Holistic fitness for the whole person We are complex, multidimensional, compound individuals embedded in larger, yet more complex environmental, social, and cultural contexts. Both human development as well as the converse degeneration that shows up in such overt degenerative conditions as Type II diabetes, overfatness, obesity, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, osteoporosis, sarcopenia, arthritis, etc. are multidimensional phenomena, and such complex multidimensional problems require complete multidimensional solutions for prevention or reversal. Any condition that is degenerative is also reversible or regenerative along the same developmental pathways, but in the opposite direction in an upward spiral of regeneration rather than a downward spiral of degeneration. A developmental/generational/growth approach includes yet transcends a reactive/remedial/therapeutic approach: while a traditional therapeutic approach can reverse overt clinical symptoms and return you to a state of ‘normalcy’ or neutral health characterized by lack of obvious disease symptoms, a developmental approach gets at the long-term root causes deeply embedded in our lifestyles—the larger contexts that our bodies adapt to—that cause the obvious symptoms manifesting or ‘presenting themselves’ for attention on the surface of sensory awareness, and treatment can continue beyond the mere amelioration of negative states, according to your goals, taking you all the way to optimal thriving and fulfillment of your potential. Form follows function. Horatio Greenough The modern medical/military model is great for combating communicable disease and fighting other problems at the physical level of complexity that have immediate and obvious primarily physical causes and effects, but is ill-equipped for handling multidimensional long-term degenerative disease due to it’s outdated Newtonian/Kraepelinian mechanical worldview and short attention span. The postmodern organic developmental/generational approach to de-generation is much more appropriate to the times and much more adequate to the task, while leaving behind the reductionistic and dehumanizing medical/military baggage and it’s short-term quick fixes (liposuction, bariatric surgery, drugs, unhealthy ‘medically supervised’ starvation diets, plastic surgery, and other bizarre modern equivalents of leaches) that don’t get at the deeply rooted causes embedded in unhealthy lifestyles—the background contexts invisible to the narrowly focused microscope. The modern medical microscope can only see the ‘leaves’ of the problem obvious to the enhanced physical senses, while the postmodern wide-angle lens also sees the ‘roots’ below the surface of immediate sensory awareness because it sees whole systems not just obvious visible parts. The modern medical/military approach is to hack at the symptomatic leaves with medical ‘interventions’ requiring patient ‘compliance’ to protocols for ‘fighting,’ ‘battling,’or ‘killing’ disease until obvious symptoms are gone; whereas the postmodern approach is to pull the problems out permanently by their causal roots, restoring balance through healthy lifestyle changes that heal the whole person. This emphasis on a balanced fit lifestyle is the natural, healthy, sustainable solution for successful long-term weight loss and robust health.

The way practitioners and professionals see and understand the problem directly shapes their proposed solutions whether or not they’re consciously aware of the worldview or lens through which they interpret reality: whereas the modern medical reactive/remedial/symptomatic/therapeutic approach can take you from illness to neutral wellness, at least in the short-term, the postmodern proactive/developmental/holistic/integral alternative can take you from illness to wellness to fitness because its definition of health is broader in scope, its theoretical underpinnings are deeper in substance, its corresponding standards for results are higher in quality, and its temporal perspective is longer-term. Why stop at just being ‘not sick’ with the help of band-aids and crutches when you can experience optimal wellness and fitness in accordance with your potential? Especially when it’s now, finally, tax-deductible? To recap the current weight loss and fitness situation: on the conventional problem-focused/remedial side of the fence that can take you from illness to wellness, we have physicians who cure diseases and disorders by reacting to symptoms that manifest or ‘present’ as obvious problems in the gross physical body; psychiatrists who react to problems of the brain; psychologists who react to problems of the mind at a higher level of complexity; the rapidly growing field of philosophical counselors treating broader, deeper life issues at a yet higher level of complexity; and general practitioners or family physicians who bring it all together for general application as well as appropriate referrals to specialists. On the proactive/developmental side of the fence that can take you from neutral wellness to optimal fitness, we have nutritionists and dietitians who proactively focus on optimal dietary intake; exercise physiologists and personal trainers who proactively focus on optimal output; health psychologists and health coaches who proactively focus on adopting healthy behaviors, habits, and lifestyles; sports psychologists and life coaches who proactively focus on mental fitness, goal-setting, time management, and successful living; but there is no proactive counterpart to the medical general practitioner who brings them all together into a coherent, comprehensive package for whole people living full lives … until now: Introducing the Holistic Fitness Guru™ What’s a Holistic Fitness Guru™? Someone who has demonstrated broad competence across the human sciences, technologies, and methodologies applicable to weight loss and fitness by accumulating the top certifications in the technologies of transformation subsumed by integral fitness, as well as broad familiarity with the various specializations in the integral fitness toolbox. Think of a Holistic Fitness Guru™ as the postmodern proactive goal-focused counterpart to the modern medical problem-focused general practitioner—but without the Newtonian/Kraepelinian medical/military baggage and detached impersonal hierarchical relationship. A fitness guru is your personal counselor, consultant, trainer, and coach to help you solve your biggest problems, reach your biggest goals, fulfill your potential, and improve your life—your partner in helping you create a preferred future by living a better, fuller life. These related and overlapping fields are integrated by BioFit because they are pieces of a larger picture: the elements of a more complete human potential, self-actualization, or personal growth technology of transformation evident when seen through the lens of integral perspectivism, the science of the whole. Combining these fields and offering them as a package is the first level of innovation of the BioFit approach. How do they all fit together? The second level of innovation leverages this combination to its fullest potential by realizing the inherent synergy of these overlapping fields, creating a service far greater than the sum of its parts: rather than merely patching these technologies together by joining them where they intersect or overlap, they are thoroughly integrated into a larger cohesive whole, utilizing the fundamental dimensions of human experience as the broadest, most inclusive organizing principle. There are any number of ways they can be integrated into a unified whole, and of all the major systems out there6, Wilber’s integral approach is, by far, the most inclusive, comprehensive, and internally coherent. BioFit augments the integral approach by highlighting the crucial extrinsic dimension of practical resource management across the four quadrants of integral life experience. When integral perspectivism is applied to human health and growth, or more accurately, when human health and growth is seen through the lens of integral perspectivism, the result is a broad comprehensive conception of human being, living, growing, and acting in the world that includes the following broad dimensions of life expressed through the evolutionary ‘fitness’ meme, broadly conceived to subsume both ‘horizontal’ health and ‘vertical’ growth, that enjoys wide positive currency: These areas or spheres of life include all the lines, domains, or 'modules' of human development reframed in terms of ‘whole-life fitness.’ Each of these lines or modules grows and develops through stages of development or levels of complexity, from the simplest to the most complex—or degenerates—and growth through these stages can be facilitated and degeneration reversed through regeneration. But all of this is only half the story, the synthesis/integration side of the equation, so to speak. The other half of the equation is the customized application of this grand synthesis to you. This element of the integral approach—types—is perhaps the most interesting and relevant to you because the various types among the amazing diversity of form are the ‘keys’ for unlocking the potential of each of the integrated elements for you. These elements are customized according to your unique combination of attributes, variables, or types. Customized fitness for the unique person Each person is not only a multidimensional human being requiring multidimensional solutions, but is also at various places or positions, usually categorized as types, along each of these dimensions, and naturally responds best to protocols that fit your unique combination of types, differences, preferences, and goals. BioFit respects your individuality with a highly customized program tailored to fit you based on your unique combination of customization variables, resulting in a customized program that naturally fits you best.  Scientific customization is the third level of innovation introduced by BioFit in order to apply the universal principles of component technologies to the particular variables of unique individuals. This is accomplished through the utilization of state-of-the-art customization techniques drawn from the cutting edge of each of the component technologies and combined for the first time in order to provide the highest degree of customization available today. These state-of-the-art customization techniques augment conventional assessment methods such as measurement of your vital signs, body fat percentage, anthropometric proportions, etc. They measure individual variables along anthropological dimensions that form the elements of a multi-dimensional matrix used to formulate a customized strategy for you. The resulting customized protocols provide you with much more precise advice for achieving your goals than universal one-size-fits-all recommendations that fail to take into account significant individual variations, differences, preferences, and goals. This customized fine-tuning of holistic fitness to your unique characteristics optimizes your benefit-to-cost ratio for achieving your goals: customized protocols maximize results while minimizing the costs of achieving them because each person is different and naturally responds best to protocols that match your unique combination of customization variables. Follow a path in accordance with your unique individual nature, one customized just for you. The key to getting fast results is to replace guesswork, fads, anecdotal advice, and trial and error experimentation with precise scientific customization in order to leverage your time and achieve your goals rapidly. Train smarter by taking advantage of this knowledge—try science for a change! The personal transformation process The fourth level of innovation in the BioFit approach is customization over time through the framework of a practical goal-forming and goal-achieving process, leading you through every necessary step to goal realization. The whole process is goal-directed, so each client’s journey is unique according to your self-determined goals for the future. This journey is based on the volitional powers of the will as animated by the proactive vision of the intellectual imagination; guided by prospective ethical principles including the vital importance of ambitious goal-setting and the clarity provided by the distinction between ends, means, and resources in the form of intrinsic, extrinsic, and utility goods; and constrained by the limitations of the past: your material circumstances revealed in your health history. The BioFit System™: the art & science of integral fitness The BioFit System™ is the unified integral fitness perspective applied through the customized personal transformation process. The focus of the first two innovations, the combination and integration of component technologies, is the end, result, or destination of your journey: the integral fitness benefit of weight loss and whole-life fitness; while the focus of the latter two, the customization and proactive application of this technology to you, is the means, process, or journey whereby this benefit is achieved by you. Accordingly, the first two innovations regarding scope can be considered the science of integral fitness, while the latter two regarding skillful practical application can be considered the art of integral fitness. Together, these four innovations comprise the art & science of integral fitness, the means whereby the philosophy of integral fitness is actualized. The BioFit System™ is the technology providing the integral fitness consumer benefit across the fitness spectrum from weight loss to whole-life fitness. The BioFit System™  Designer Fitness™: the user interface of integral fitness The fifth innovation introduced by BioFit is an easy, interesting way for you to wade through all the options to design your unique journey. While the BioFit System™ is the ‘behind the scenes’ service delivery system, Designer Fitness™ is the user interface for the interactive design of your unique transformational journey. Your design choices direct the destination and itinerary of your journey: Designer Fitness™  BioFit: holistic fitness customized for you and designed by you As you can see, this isn’t your mother’s weight loss solution! This is fitness the way it should be—21st century holistic integration, scientific customization, and customer interaction—the result of over 10 years of work and I dare say there’s nothing else like it in the world. This labor of love is totally original and unique—I doubt very seriously you will find this level of breadth and depth, this degree of comprehensiveness and customization, in any other weight loss solution anywhere in the world, including university hospital-based programs according to my clients who have tried everything and my own extensive research. If you do, I’d like to know about it. Bringing Designer Fitness™ to Santa Fe for over 10 years The BioFit approach is integral/nondual: an approach that embraces everything and excludes nothing— an approach as broad and deep as life itself—excluding neither any of the viewpoints, perspectives, or philosophies that inform life; nor the passion, play, fun, joy, love, and all the other important things that make life worth living. Welcome to a refreshing 21st century integral approach to weight loss and whole-life fitness that celebrates life in all its radiant beauty, diversity of form, underlying unity, depth of potential, and fullness of being! Embark on your journey! Embark on your journey to a better life—to a body and lifestyle worthy of your potential, your desires, your dreams, and your vision. You’re the designer of your own destiny and I’m a guide who can lead you to it and help you reach it. Join me in a partnership of equals to make this a reality in your life once and for all. To learn more about Designer Fitness™ and the BioFit System™ behind it click here: Solutions Footnotes: 1 Maslow made this comment in criticism of religious adherents of behaviorism, the ‘first force’ in Western psychology, and psychoanalysis, the ‘second force,’ both important contributions but reductionistic and exclusionary. Maslow is the only person to have founded two schools of thought in Western psychology: humanistic and later transpersonal, the third and forth forces, respectively. While psychoanalysis focuses on what can go wrong during the first five stages of development in the shallows of so-called ‘depth’ psychology, an important contribution but hardly the whole story, transpersonal psychology focuses on the highest stages of human development and for that reason is the only school of Western psychology open to Eastern psychological systems such as Vedanta Hinduism and Vajrayana Buddhism that have extremely sophisticated phenomenologies of the highest stages of human development, as well as advanced methodologies for growing through them, the product of at least three millennia of continuous evolution. There is no equivalent in the West which is just now beginning to become aware of even the existence of these higher stages, thanks to the efforts of pioneers such as Maslow, Alexander, Brown, Engler, Wilber and others who are updating models of human development accordingly. For more on these more recent schools of psychology, see Maslow’s Toward a Psychology of Being and The Farther Reaches of Human Nature. The best intro to transpersonal psychology today is probably Paths Beyond Ego, an anthology of transpersonal pioneers. 2 The contemporary psychologist, philosopher, and pandit Ken Wilber is the father of the school of integral psychology, what some are beginning to call the ‘fifth force’ in psychology that integrates and subsumes the contributions of the previous four as well as all the other major and minor schools of thought in Eastern and Western psychologies into the most comprehensive model of consciousness yet. Wilber is the most translated philosopher in the world today, credited with creating the first genuine world philosophy that embraces and integrates the truths of the world’s great psychological, scientific, philosophical, and spiritual traditions; is the first person to have his collected works published while he’s still alive; and is the mentor of many of today’s leading spiritual teachers such as Deepak Chopra. His work is fascinating. If your worldview is traditional/religious/conservative, I recommend his A Brief History of Everything; if your worldview is modern/scientific/libertarian I recommend Integral Psychology; if it’s postmodern/pluralistic/liberal I recommend starting with A Theory of Everything, then perhaps his magnum opus Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution; if it’s postliberal/existential/integral I recommend The Eye of Spirit, then perhaps Integral Spirituality. 3 Time Magazine called Mortimer Adler “America’s foremost philosopher.” While at the University of Chicago he was Chairman of the Board of Editors of the Encyclopædia Britannica and author of it’s one volume Propædia, or Outline of Knowledge, the most comprehensive organization of Western knowledge to date and topical guide to the Encyclopædia Britannica. Adler co-founded the Great Books of the Western World program, authored it’s Syntopicon of great ideas, co-founded The Center for the Study of the Great Ideas, and encouraged two of his students to adopt the ‘Great Books’ curriculum at St. John’s College, one of the most prominent liberal arts colleges (with two campuses in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Annapolis, Maryland). He founded the Institute for Philosophical Research, launched the Paideia movement for educational curriculum reform, authored over 60 books including the modern classic, How to Read a Book, and was a world federalist. His A Guidebook to Learning is a fascinating journey through the history and philosophy of the organization of knowledge in the Western world from Plato and Aristotle through Bacon, Locke, and the French ‘encyclopedists’ of modern times to the 20th century Propædia. These eclectic cataloging projects of modern Western liberalism paved the way for postmodern integralism, which took the next step beyond mere tolerance and celebration of diversity to the actual integration of the partial truths of premodern, modern, and postmodern cultures East & West, North & South by discovering the underlying species-wide cross-cultural patterns that link them into a genuine human or world psychology and philosophy, by integral pioneers Sri Aurobindo, Chaudhuri, Gebser, Feuerstein, Graves, Beck, Laszlo, Leonard, Murphy, Wilber, and others. 4 “Integral Methodological Pluralism,” “Integral Epistemological Pluralism,” and “Integral Perspectivism” are Wilber’s phrases and have a nice Western ring to them friendly to Western epistemology and particularly the green meme, but the approach could also go by the name “Epistemological Nonattachment” to emphasize nonattachment to any particular methodology a researcher may be trained in at the expense of other equally valid modes of inquiry; or conversely, and perhaps more accurately expressed in positive terms as, “Epistemological Equanimity” meaning attachment to or the embracing of all methodologies equally in order that a whole body of knowledge can be seen more clearly as a nondual/integral unity rather than chopped up into slices of reality revealed, disclosed, or enacted by methodological chunks of perception and conception. 5 Philosophy is the “Queen of the Sciences” necessary for both the epistemological foundations of science as well as interpretation of raw concrete scientific data into formal theory for assimilation into the higher goods of the mind: organized knowledge, understanding, and wisdom—the objects of study in philosophy (the formal and postformal operations stages of cognitive development necessary for philosophy emerge after the concrete operations stage necessary for science). Philosophy is the branch of knowledge that stands back to see the larger contexts that the obvious pieces focused on in the foreground of concrete scientific observation fit together into, to detect the underlying patterns that connect all the apparent pieces into larger wholes—to discover ‘the order in the chaos,’ the underlying unity behind the apparent diversity of form evident to the senses and their instrumental extensions as discrete objects of perception. As a transcendental form of learning it’s the only branch of learning capable of such a synthesis—while science analyses wholes into parts, philosophy synthesizes parts back into greater wholes. Creative synthesis is a higher-order operation than logical analysis: synthesis ‘operates on’ and transcends the results of analysis. In using Tolstoy’s phrase “the science of the whole” I use ‘science’ in the same sense that he does: ‘broad science’ or knowledge based on experience in contrast to the ‘narrow science’ of scientific materialism that reduced science to empirical experience—until quantum physics and relativity demolished materialism in the 1920’s. 6 Stephen Covey’s ‘7 Habits’, Anthony Robbins’ system, Dr. Phil’s system, Patrick William’s ‘Total Life Coaching,’ etc. Education consists of discovering the interconnections between things. Vaclav Havel Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi All revolutionary changes are unthinkable until they happen—and then they are understood to be inevitable. Theodore Roszak  Welcome About Testimonials Inspiration Compare Choose Solutions Store Info All photos on the site are of people I've coached and trained. At the top of the page Ingrid enjoys a ‘Sound of Music’ day in Austria. 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