James Astin Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, California Area

Wuji Quan or Wu Chi Chuan is one of the programs offered at the Institute of Movement Arts and Sciences. It is a comprehensive movement educational curriculum thousands of years in the making. Each generation is required to modernize, i.e. maintain currency throughout the generations. The topics covered are: Philisophy of Existential Relationships, Functional Training, Tactical Conditioning, Scientific Meta-Analysis, Self-reliance, Social Sciences and Ethics, Moral Behaviour, Consciousness.There is one inviolate rule at the Institute: Ensure the individuals right to Self-DetermineThere are but four Tenets: 1. Be Adaptable 2. Do not Interfere 3. Follow the Way of Nature 4. Have FaithThere are only 8 precepts of inquiry: 1. Be Aware 2. Know Your Self 3. Unify Word and Deed 4. Maintain Integrity 5. Be Sincere 6. Suspend Judgement 7. Be Responsible 8. (beyond language to define or describe, and can only be realized directly.)www.wuchichuan.com/blog

Sacramento, California Area

The Institute of Movement Arts and Sciences, is not necessarily different from the Institute of Noetic Science, or the Esalen Institute, except that we work with individuals teaching them how to access their full potential. Essentially we are "Life Hackers." We include all four domains of development. Physical, Cognitive. Emotional, Moral... The training evolved from a long and rich history of Eastern and Western paradigms but is neither eastern nor western in its programming approach. We work in groups, testing and challenging each other. Every bit of available research into consciousness, physics, social sciences, and human developmental processes. Comprehensive yet pertinent. The Institute and its members relish the ability to think and explore beyond the socio-somatic and cognitive conditioning that they were violently and ignorantly subjected to in the early formative years. If we do not take the responsibility for programming our own mind the world will program it for us. In this regard and anything related to the institute is my life's work!

United States

Supervise and train faculty in the delivery instruction of course material for the Advance Health and Fitness Training program. Responsibilities included: Student outreach and one on one student coaching for academic success, scheduling students and instructors curriculum design, professional collaboration with industry leaders and members of the Program Advisory Committee members on a bi-annual basis, maintained accreditation standards for both ACICS and ACCSC accrediting bodies, develop leading edge curriculum that exceeds industry minimums, instruction in areas of expertise, classes included: Coaching Psychology, Psychology of the BodyMind, Ethics, Medical and Clinical Consideration, Corrective Exercise Strategies, Advanced Performance Training, Fitness Testing and Screening, Cardiovascular Training and Prescription, Biomechanics as needed.

Full time responsibilities included all instructor responsibilities to include assisting faculty and staff in preparation for their teaching assignment. designed and supervised all labs related to course work.