Jul 31, 2023
A virtuous life is an examined life, and few arts promote an examined life quite like Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Erica Zendell is a BJJ brown belt, writer, and powerhouse in the digital products space. Her journey to and through BJJ has catalyzed here self-transformation, helped her sort through past trauma, clarified her own...
Jul 24, 2023
For years, the closing line of Rilke's Archaic Torso of Apollo has haunted me: "... for here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life."
Every step of my journey from white belt to black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has been the same refrain: You must change your life.
Great art will do that to...
Jul 17, 2023
Imagine a line that separates your life training Jiu Jitsu and your life at large. How do you prepare your mind, body, and soul so that you are fully prepared for the training on the other side of the line? How do you show up on the mats as the best version of yourself, ready to absorb new information and refine...
Jul 11, 2023
First, some housekeeping. Humans are faced with multiple existential crises. Here in the northeast, recent events have highlighted the salience of the environmental crisis and climate change.
BJJ Meditations is committed to being a force for change. From here forward, at least one percent of all pre-tax proceeds will...
Jul 3, 2023
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." -- Gen. George S. Patton Sparring in BJJ highlights the salience of Patton's point.
We can enter a round with what we think is a perfect plan and ultimately falter because we are too tightly bound to that plan.
But the inverse is also...