A Summer in Katega: Grace’s Testimony
“In Katega, daily life was profoundly different from what I’m accustomed to. Without electricity or running water, daily tasks like laundry took hours, and cooking was done over a propane stove or an open fire. The simplicity of their existence highlighted the vast contrasts with the conveniences we often take for granted.”
1/1000th: Uganda Mission Report
Our mission isn’t to Americanize our Ugandan partners or their methods. The objective of how Point One Vision operates its SERVE missions is to equip and empower local leaders and communities to impact their cultures from the inside out and not the other way around. And so how I know that we’ve take the right first step (if even out of one thousand) is that it looks more like this…
Is “breathwork” demonic?
You wouldn’t know it unless you’re reading it in the original Greek or Hebrew, but you can’t read the Bible without reading about the connection between the characteristics of God and his relationship to man associated to the breath nearly 800 times between the Old and New Testament.
12 Days of Christmas GIVEAWAY
We have over $3,000 worth of prizes for our 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway this year!
A New Identity - Kauai SERVE Testimonial
We were chosen for our gifts of varying areas and how God knit that together was nothing short of miraculous. He has laid out the beginning and the end, why would he not know the intricacies of the middle?
Bridging Physiology & Psychology: A Theory of Joy
The fact is, a body that is tense with anxiety or oppressed by depression is not in a state that is able to achieve the physical outcomes we usually want from exercise. It is much harder to lose weight and to gain muscle when we are in a constant state of survival. You may have experienced this as stubborn body fat or training plateaus and found yourself constantly seeking out a new program, new exercise or new coach.
Infradian Rhythms: Nutrition & Fitness for Women
The best thing that women can do to optimize their fitness and recovery is to understand their unique infradian rhythm, or menstrual cycle. Just like our circadian rhythm influences different systems of the body, so does our infradian rhythm by impacting our brain, stress responses, digestion, thoughts, emotions and metabolism. It becomes increasingly difficult to meet your fitness goals without acknowledging these biological rhythms.
How to Train According to Your Menstrual Cycle
What understanding your period, being female and acknowledging your unique differences does mean is that you are entirely more capable of understanding how to be the strongest that you can be - in more ways than one.
How Ice Baths Might Help You Stop Peeing Yourself
If you’re of the rare category of people who has neither given childbirth nor had to endure sexual abuse and yet you still wrestle with incontinence, you may be frustrated by the lack of answers. So here’s a theory that is seemingly far less explored, but just might make a big difference.
EQ, Mirror Neurons & Paul’s Letter to Corinthia: How to Lead with Empathy
Defined by “the effective regulation of emotion in self and others, and the use of feelings to motivate, plan, and achieve in one's life,” emotional intelligence is about the discernment between varying emotions and how to use this information to guide interaction and behaviors. Our emotional intelligence is important to operate in relationships.
Two Exercises to Wipe Out Shoulder Pain
I’ve seen these exercises be highly effective in eliminating shoulder pain within weeks where months or years of physical therapy failed. These exercises alone aren’t the solution to all of the root issues behind your shoulder pain, but I am confident that they will begin to shift your state and your structure to living with less pain, less frustration and more joy in life. For all the ways you’ve learned to live with your pain, there is freedom available.
A Starter’s Guide to Ice Baths
It’s not just a matter of being able to “grit and bear it” through something that is obviously uncomfortable to the comfort-seeking tendency of the modern human body. It’s hardly about the cold water at all, actually. Being able to regulate body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure and breathing rate is also helpful when we get into an argument, rear end someone in traffic or walk into an interview or proposal for a raise. It’s about managing tension and stress.
Full Armor IV: Testimony
This guest article was written and submitted by Rebecca Wong, a graduate of the Full Armor Leaders Course IV in the Fall of 2021. A fitness enthusiast and faith-seeker, she joined this community to grow in both to lead, manage and exercise with full strength. The following is her testimony of her experience.
A Year in Review
The body is a whole of many parts and I continue to seek out everything hidden in that truth - thank you for being the hands, the feet, the eyes, ears and breath. Here is what we exercised with that shared body in 2021…
Dry Bones Rise
At the end of October, a select group of leaders who have graduated from our Full Armor Leaders Course gathered in Southern California as the core fitness leadership team for a Beautifully Flawed Foundation event. “Gym Day” was a culmination of a 5-day experience for young men and women with physical disabilities of limb loss or limb differences as a call to action in living out the purpose of their testimony - learning to exercise the power of their confidence and capabilities not despite of, but because of their stories.
A Giving Challenge
Giving Tuesday usually sits at the tail end of the post-thanksgiving campaign craze as a philanthropic effort to inspire "global generosity...unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world," as Wikipedia puts it. Unfortunately by the time we get there, most of us are spent in more ways than one and I think that this is a relevant analogy to many of our lives.
For Freedom
This is freedom to be the truest, most authentic, empowered version of yourself possible. This is a freedom that no external, worldly circumstance or experience can offer.
Waiting for Endurance
On August 28, Sarah Loogman will be circumnavigating the island of Oahu by swim, run, paddle, ruck and bike as an awareness-driver and fundraiser for this organization. This effort of approximately 150 miles will take roughly 20-24 hours and complete as a single stretch. As the founder of Point One Vision, Sarah is intentional about depicting the message of this organization and to fully embody all that it aims to represent.
Breakfast with Cannibals
“My first clue that something was wrong was with my back against a mud wall between two huts in a cannibalistic island village of Lake Victoria with children clawing at me for candy and toys that we had brought as donations.”
Exercise for Addiction Recovery
Exercise and general whole-body fitness help people fight addiction. When the goal is overall health and well-being, harmful behaviors can be effectively forced out of the picture. When exercise and healthy living are combined, sustainable substance-free existence is possible for almost anyone.