The Attuned Newsletter - 2026 Edition 1

Take a deep breath and... a moment, to marinate in the sensation of your body.

We're about to dive in.

33.3% Movement (video included)
33.3% Life Insight
33.3% Personal Update

Let's go.

This Week's Movement Education
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​The Magic of Shin Angle Change.

Just over 10 minutes to watch.

Whether you want to walk blissfully, accelerate or change direction like a beast (wrestling, sprinting, sport) or root down to the ground in Taiiji Quan, you need to master shin angles. It's one of the simplest, most fundamental things to become aware of that will boost your ability in whatever ground-based activity you're doing.

The art is to first shift your centre of mass, and then drop it into a controlled fall using the shins as directional drivers. Then you can transmit power from the ground to:
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1. move yourself powerfully

2. move others powerfully

3. make yourself very hard to move

Shin angle change is spoken about often by high level coaches in sporting contexts.

But we can also unlock deeper relaxation and effortless, fluid movement by embodying this concept.

This is something to notice, practice and verify for yourself in your movement / training.

Because the better we can align the bony structures to transmit force and befriend gravity, the more the muscles can relax. And the more the muscles can relax, the more perceptive, responsive, skilful movers we can be.

Quiet muscles + elite alignment = available fascial system. That means a more connective, transmissive, alive-feeling body and psyche.

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This Week's Life Insight

As someone who lives for flow states, I say this:

Only dead fish go with the flow.

We need to create structures that serve us.

The reality is, if you’re living in the mainstream modern western culture, the flow leads to a cesspool of zombified consumerism and futile stress, dressed up in whatever way is most marketable or appealing to you.

It’s a word where we all look different (adventure hippies, entrepreneur bros, white-picket-fencers, anti-establishment truthers… just to name a few) and yet, for the most part, we suffer with the same fundamental lack.

Sovereignty.

Self-mastery to navigate the world and become who we want to be.

Sovereignty blooms from knowing “I belong to myself, first.” and then acting like it in our relationships with all other things, so that we don’t seek belonging in detrimental, regressive ways.

You can’t buy agency.

You can’t sell it, either.

You can only live it — and that’s powerful enough.

See, we either cherish and prioritise this choice to take responsibility for what who are becoming, or we drift.

True freedom is within. A discipline, honed and expressed.

The drift is comfortable and convenient… but only at first. To go with the grain. To feel frictionless. To rest the seeing eye of the soul, avoid the cleansing salty, sting of our own discernment.

But the prize for going with the flow too long in an unsupportive cultural environment is a sleepy degeneration into subconscious rot. The polluted world of more brings the colourful promise of liberation from mundane responsibilities… and then soon after, bondage, numbness and addiction.

One day, if we are fortunate, we wake up and we hurt, deeply.

If we are lucky, we painfully realise our estrangement from our individual essence.

And if we are both responsible and spirited, we do something about it. We zoom out, soften the eyes, free ourselves to feel. We expand our view to see that friction is the point, the punishment.

And by using it we can shape ourselves, beautifully.

With choice.

So, this is the insight:

Invest your energy and attention wisely, or become inert.

To be in your flow, you need to create beautiful, values-led systems that you can rightly surrender into. Enriching, well considered systems that prepare you to meet life with focus and receptivity to the good things.

The environment matters. Don’t rely on finding it. Focus on forming it.

Form every layer of you as you desire.

And do the same with your space.

And with your relationships.

This Week's Personal Update

Last week, I set a strong intention to be more organised with my resources.

With my time. Money. Creativity.

Life threw me a couple curve-balls and I realised that without some order, I simply couldn't manage.

Then I was like "wait, if it's this much easier to be orderly when things are hard, why not be orderly when they're good?"

Entropy (energy dispersal) is a fact of life. A constant struggle for us humans who need to create more order just for things to not get worse. Things are always falling apart. That doesn’t mean we should just let them. Coasting doesn't bring growth.

Our potential atrophies when we aren’t intentionally building, learning or resting.

And anything good we do have in our lives tends to arrive downstream of someone's sincere, skilful efforts to build, teach, provide or protect.

So, once again, I have recommitted to taking care of the good things in my life.

I have recommitted to:

1. Prioritising my physical training, sleep and nourishment. No matter how many times I injure myself or get sidetracked, I always come back. But here's the thing. Why do I even allow this to be de-prioritised in the first place? In my late teens or early twenties I would never have tolerated this pattern. Why now?
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   From here on there are zero excuses, just like the old days. My mate Jarrad really inspired me during our calisthenics session this week. He just keeps getting stronger and feeling better, and he's way into his forties.
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2. Being interested in my life. This means seeing the value in what I have worked hard to build (relationships, assets, skillsets) rather than just forgetting I have them and neglecting to privately and publicly celebrate them. I tend to be super casual about the things I do, and rarely speak about them enthusiastically outside of social media or with students, because I assume people aren't interested.
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   Bullshit. Of course they won't be interested if I come across like I'm not, either. And if I allow people to see that actually I think what I do is perhaps the coolest thing in the world, then I am fulfilling my part in enrolling people in the mission: know, explore and develop the SomaTechnology.​
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3. Ensuring I am utterly ready for the foreseeables. This means being early. Being prepared the day, or night before. It means considering what I'm going to need in the short, mid and long term. It means planning. And it means sticking to my plans and schedule and saying "no" to a lot of things. If things must change, that's fine, but I'll take stock, keep account and look at why they had to change and whether that's something I can factor in next time.
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   I'm training for a military level of preparedness, so I can flow like water and reduce wasted cognitive load. This is essential for creativity and developing deep sensitivity to life's magic. Can't waste bandwidth.

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I had this realisation the other day that I basically know all the things I could to be doing. I've spent years learning how to train, teach, honour my soul and build a business, but I haven't devoted anywhere near enough energy to preparing myself to enable the best use of my knowledge.

And that is fucking KEY.

So, as of today, I have a couple systems in place that I haven't had before.

— A very organised personal schedule including beach time, dog walk time, lifting/yoga/jiujitsu, nap/nidra/meditation time, internal arts practices, household chores, various teaching/business tasks and... empty spaces.

— All necessary steps outlined to create an automated financial tracking and allocation system where as soon as money hits my account it is distributed into the right places, without me having to manually do this. I'm prioritising financial literacy. I've picked out two books to dive into again. The Richest Man in Babylon (fatherly, practical money wisdom for the ages) and The Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn (to dissolve some subconscious prisons I can feel myself in).

I can't tell you how enthusiastic I'm feeling about surrendering to my schedule so I don't have to manage the same shit over and over again for no reason.

Turns out, going with the flow is sometimes a hallmark of being a control freak who is just too overwhelmed to surrender to the things that would enable more actual control.

That one sting for anyone else, or just me?

See new.

Do new.

Be new.

I am ready to operate differently and I am ready to love it.

Jack

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