Tao of Running Fundamentals™

A 28-Day Journey to Running with Mindfulness to Enhance Resilience, Fitness, Health and Happiness

Ready to transform your running and well-being?

Why This Course ?

Most people struggle with running because of inefficient techniques, poor breathing, and lack of mindfulness leading to injuries, fatigue, and frustration. Tao of Running™ 4-Week Fundamentals helps you rewire your approach to running through:

Natural Running Techniques

Learn foundational techniques and endurance mastery principles to run in a natural way, find joy and pleasure in running, avoid body aches, and prevent injuries. 

Mindfulness & Breathwork

Learn how to practice mindfulness and breathwork techniques while running to rejuvenate your mind, reduce stress, enhance resilience, sharpen mental focus and clarity.  

Sustainable Habit Formation

Learn change management and habit formation techniques to build a mindful running practice that lasts and continuously improve over time to become a real mind-body “Practice”

Flow State Training

Learn strategies and techniques to enter the "zone" and make running an  effortless practice.

This 4-week online program will help you transform your mind-body through running to be healthier, fitter, more energised, balanced, resilient, and feel happier deep inside you!

Note: No prior running, mindfulness, or breathwork experience needed! Just an open mind and a willingness to learn.

What You Will Learn

Here is how the 4-week curriculum is structured:

Week 0 - Program Introduction And Kick-Off 

Program Introduction And Kick-Off

You will learn how this program is different than a running program and the story that led me to design it.

You will also receive some knowledge and guidance on how to use your resources at your best to make sure you will get the most of the 4-week journey.

At the end of the kick-off, you will be guided through a visualization to help you develop your "effortless runner identity blueprint" and refine your intentions and aims to start the first day of the program on the right foot!

Week 1 - Body Training Pillar [Part 1]

Body Training Pillar [Part 1]

In week 1, we will cover the details on why your body is perfectly designed to run and start building the foundations to re-learn how to run in a more “natural way”.

You will learn:

  • Why your body is designed to run and why most people have lost these natural abilities 
  • How you can re-learn your "effortless running" abilities  
  • Why your feet are a masterpiece of genius and how to make them be at the service of your body
  • Techniques to start improving your running posture and running form to run more efficiently and avoid injuries. 

Week 2 - Body Training Pillar [Part 2] 

Body Training Pillar [Part 2]

In week 2, we will guide you with new specific techniques 1) on how to move your body efficiently from head to toes, 2) to manage your effort level when you run and 3) to make running stick to your life.

You will learn:

  • How to move different body parts to keep your body balanced between the "yin" and the "yang"
  • How to manage better your energy level during your run and unleash “healthy energy”
  • How to create space for running into your life and how to develop and maintain new habits in the long term to BECOME A RUNNER.

Week 3 - Mind Training Pillar [Static Practices]  

Mind Training Pillar [Static Practices]

In week 3, we will prepare your mind to create bonding with your body and not "fight against" your body. We will 1) Demystify mindfulness and mind training and 2) Learn specific breathing techniques to enable a better mind-body connection, the foundations for "yin running", the art of effortless running.

You will learn:

  • Why mind training is important and the benefits for your health, brain performance, and well-being [backed up by science]
  • How to apply these mind training techniques in your day to day life
  • The science of breathing and why it is important for your health, brain health and performance, and wellbeing
  • How to apply these breathing techniques in your day-to-day life.

Week 4 - Mind-Body Integration Pillar

Mind-Body Integration Pillar

In week 4, we will integrate your learning from week 3 on the mind training and the breathing techniques with the learning of week 1 and week 2 to apply them in a running context. Running will become a full mind-body practice and it will enable holistic benefits.

You will learn:

  • How to prepare your mind to connect better with your body before your run and to materialize better the outcomes you aspire to get from your run 
  • How to practice the mind training and breathing techniques during your run
  • How to connect with your environment with your senses and how to adjust how you run based on your perceptions 
  • How to continue to improve and build on this 4-week training to bring your “effortless running” skills to mastery.

Meet Stephane Who Designed This Unique Approach  

Hey, I'm Stephane, a transformational lifestyle coach with 25+ years of running experience.

The Tao of Running Transformation program merges my passions and experiences to create a powerful combination of old wisdom and cutting-edge science related to running, mindfulness, nutrition, breathing techniques, sleep, happiness, flow, and more. 

Since 2015, I've empowered hundreds of participants to transform their minds and bodies and achieve their goals through this holistic program.

Thousands more have attended my workshops and talks, discovering how the art of effortless running can lead to a healthier, more balanced, productive, and fulfilled life.

Curious about my credentials? Check out my background and story section.

Stephane is regularly invited to speak for corporations, wellness organizations, professional associations about his holistic approach

Stephane won his first participation in an Ultra Trail following his effortless approach to running

How This Program Will Transform You

Experience A Holistic Transformation In 4 Key Areas: 

Fitness

Health

Brain Performance

Inner Happiness

Weight loss

Optimize your body in a fat burning machine for healthy and sustained weight loss and upgraded energy

Enhanced creativity

Create "space" to allow the dots to connect  in your brain for the creativity process to happen

Unleashed "sense of freedom" and mind-body connection

Increase balance, harmony, peace of mind and listen to the body intuitive messages

Boosted and stabilizedenergy level

Result of better stress management, regular exercise, better quality sleep and good nutrition

Upgraded fitness level & health

Feel and be younger than your age, enjoy your body in movement

Reduced stress, anxiety, worries

Upgrade your Brain for increased resilience and happiness

Boosted Positive Mood

Keep a smile on your face during and after your running sessions

Reduced opportunities of injuries

Learn a more natural way of running with less impact and a better flow of energy

Reinforced Immune System

Increase your resistance to illness and disease

Build positive feelings and emotions about running

-Increase joy, peace and harmony

-Remove fears and beliefs of suffering often associated with running 

Increased focus and concentration at work

Improve productivity, enhance memory, enable better decision making

Better Running Efficiency

Run Faster with less energy

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