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Is anyone aware of Wim Hof? If so, curious your thoughts... from what I've gathered, Stretch Therapy community in general identifies awareness of the body as a critical point of instruction when performing the exercises, if not the most important instruction. How physical limitations are actually mental in nature - emotions (fear, anger, etc.) manifest as tension in the body, e.g. that what limits you from further ROM can actually be an emotional barrier; when anesthetized one can do the splits. This explains to me anecdotal stories I've heard of how friends suddenly burst out crying uncontrollably during certain poses, like camel pose in Bikram - essentially, that going deeper in the pose elicited an emotional response. The more aware you are of your body, the more "in touch" you are with your emotions. Wim Hof seems to be a master of this then (body awareness), seeing as he can voluntarily control his autonomic nervous system - and be able to reproduce these abilities in others, using his method. Is this type of body awareness the same or similar to the one Stretch Therapy (or, at least Kit & Dave) wishes to cultivate in their practice and teachings? Or are they completely different concepts, and one doesn't necessarily transfer to the other? In other words, has he really learned to 'control' his internal organs (i.e. proprioception), or has he just learned how to fully 'surrender' to the moment when it comes (i.e. relax)? Are these both the same thing? I recall him in interviews saying, essentially, that his method is the "western" way to quickly achieve what meditators and (kundolini) yogis have spent years trying to cultivate.