My-Kinesiology.com interviews Colli Christante

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“On the Table” with Colli Christante…by Brendan Rohan

In the movie of your life, who would play you? Kyra Sedgewick. ( An actress married to Kevin Bacon )

If I could live anywhere, I’d choose…Bali, Italy, Canada.

My favourite food would have to be…Clean,organic healthy.

What I love most in life is…Being who I am – experiencing life through giving and receiving unconditional love, laughter, looking into the eyes of a child.

Are you a dog person or a cat person? I enjoy both

My favourite book of all time would have to be…Nancy Drew Series

What I wanted to be when I grew up…Champion figure skater and investigative journalist.

The year I began my kinesiology training…1993

I notice in your bio it says that you’re a journalist, who do you write for?

Wrote for Canadian Living Magazine, CTV National News, recently wrote & created the documentary called “Owning the Zone”, the e-book and fully written book to go with the documentary will be completed soon. Also wrote a TV series called “Somewhere I Belong” and working on another book but cannot reveal the name as of yet.

What kind of articles do you write?

Health, fitness, anti – aging/leadership,confidence building.

After watching your youtube videos, you strike me as a confident person. Have you always been confident with who you are?

Yes, No and now totally – it is a process.

Public speaking is a big fear for many kinesiology people and  it is something that stops many people from expressing their talents and reaching their full potential. What would you suggest to help overcome their fears? I love to share knowledge. I created and teach a course called the Art n’ Tool of the Pitch which totally assist the person in breaking through these fears and come to really enjoy the process. Taught this at the Vancouver Film School and Electronic Arts University to writers and producers. It is a wonderful process which allows for one to package their material, becoming confident and anchors are installed so they always have access to the strategy. Too, there is nothing like having a ( kinesiology ) balance to work with the limiting belief and assist with the imprint of an empowering one

.Reading through your bio, you seem to have many skills ’in your toolkit’. What is the most important tool that you work with and why?There is no most important. They all work together. Every session starts out the same but really it is what the client needs that predicts how the session goes but the tools all get used.If I were to walk into your clinic for my first session, what would I expect to come away with?

Using a combination of body centered techniques, sensitivity training, and mastery, when working with me, you will take a journey into your body to uncover and witness with the full light and compassion of your Presence the core beliefs that have been holding you back from your essence of being. This allows your being’s organic capacity for self healing to activate and reverse the unconscious programs that have kept you from seeing yourself in the full magnificence of who you really are. For 99% of the people who visit me, for the first time to actually start to get a glimpse into who they really are not who they have been programmed to be.

From your biography and the testimonials there, your work seems to be about leadership and bringing out those qualities in people… what are the ingredients of leadership?

No one can answer this like my mentor Denis Waitely. I totally subscribe to his and Phil Jackson’s philosophy. Phil is to be featured in my documentary “Owning the Zone.”A good way to think of leadership is the process of freeing your team members to do the best work they possibly can. I have followed NBA basketball coach Phil Jackson’s career for some time.In his career, Jackson has gone from coaching the record-setting champion Chicago Bulls to the present NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers.

 He says his principal task is creating an environment in which his players can flourish.In communicating with his championship teams, Jackson convinced them that they had the talent to win championships and that the main goal of the coach was freeing them to use that talent.Today’s business team members say they want, more than anything else, the autonomy to do their jobs without the boss’s interference. Nearly a decade into the new century, it’s already clear that the CEOs of our best-run companies believe that the more power leaders have, the less they should use.

The job of the team leader is to set a mission, decide upon a strategic direction, achieve the necessary cooperation, delegate authority and then let people innovate.To do that we all could take a hint from the late football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant. Before his retirement as one of the leading coaches in college football history at Alabama, Bryant observed:I’m just a plowhand from Arkansas, but I’ve learned how to put and hold a team together. I’ve learned how to lift some individuals up and how to calm others down, until finally they’ve got one heartbeat, together, as a team.

To do that, there are just three things I’d ever have to say: If anything went wrong, I did it. If it went semi-good, then we did it. If anything went real good, then you did it! That’s really all it takes to get other people to win for you.

The key to authentic leadership is to listen to your followers, and then open the door for them to lead themselves. The secret is empowerment. The main incentive is genuine caring and recognition.

The five most important words a leader can speak are: “I am proud of you.”
The four most important are: “What is your opinion?”
The three most important are: “If you please.”
The two most important are: “Thank you.”
And the most important single word of all is: “You!”- Denis Waitley

As your work is about leadership, confidence, performance and motivation,how does kinesiology help to bring out these qualities in your clients?

Kinesiology assists in the stripping of institutional lies and myths that encrust people. Through Kinesiology they how to use their mind to direct their emotions.They learn how to use their brain to direct their behaviour.They will break free of old negative survival patterns using their own positive patterns that keep their body balanced. This includes different methods of developing chi, relaxation, letting go, concentration, breathing actively so you are congruently integrated resulting in accessing extraordinary endurance, balance, ease, and psychological confidence.They become aligned on logical levels of environment, behaviour which includes language, senses, movement, experience base, capabilities, values, beliefs, over man giving them the feeling of being in control. A unifying experience involving their entire sense of self. The environment, higher sense of self, their potential, their destiny. They learn to how to become Captains of their souls.

In my own work with people, I have come to believe that the biggest issue that people have is that feel they can’t creatively express themselves to the level they want to… would you agree?

Yes, that is why I called my company Inner Expression. What we do not express, we repress and then depression can creep in. It is a vicious cycle. We are here to express all that flows through us as us. It is our divine right.

I notice that you’re a creative producer – what projects have you worked on? Owning the Zone, Somewhere I Belong, Mystical Journeys too many others to list.

With all this going on in your life, what does your working week look like?

Monday-Friday in the evenings I work with clients on-line. Weekends are for clients private sessions in the clinic. On any given day I may be conducting a seminar, webinar. I update my blogs every third day, my website every week, do radio interviews when they are requested. Writing is done at night. Currently putting all my content (information) into a formula that will be products and ready to launch in Sept.

Live Your Way

Live Your Way

On June 23 rd I had the honor of doing two radio interviews about Creating Champions. Dr. Dave and I had an interesting conversation. If you want to know how to live your your way and be a Champion in Sport, Performance and Your LIFE please take the time to listen to this.

Happy Canada Day Canada.

Great Resources for Pro Athletes

Pro athletes always seem to have an abundance of resources at their disposal; whether they need to make a cross country move, assess their personality and skill level, get their financial picture in order, or simply find a post-sports career job or business. A multitude of businesses clamor for the athletes’ attention but which ones can they trust? I found two businesses that really put their heart and soul into helping pro athletes manage their career and life.

One such business is Sportsdrive. The highly educated, synergistic team performs various levels of athlete assessments using a scientific approach specifically developed to evaluate sports performance and sports behavior.

Annika Olofsson, a sports psychologist with Sportsdrive, works with athletes on the German Olympic squad. I caught up with her via email last week and asked how Sportsdrive can help not just the pro athlete but their supporting cast. Annika stated, “Sportsdrive helps coaches select the right athletes; those who are not only physically strong but mentally fit and committed to achieving greatness on their specific sport. Assessment results will reveal the following to coaches; potential for development, talent, and the internal fire of the athlete as well as the best way to support the athlete in reaching his goals.”

The benefits of scientific, psychological evaluation translate into on-field and off-field success for the athlete. On-field, athletes have a sharper focus and more self-confidence because of understanding themselves and their inner drives more completely. Athletes can utilize their strengths to a higher degree with a more acute self-awareness of their inner motivators. Off-field, a better self-understanding means better communication with coaches and staff and a higher level of emotional stability all around.

Another way companies are helping the pro athlete is through successful and stress-free relocation. A pro athlete may change teams many times throughout his career and he needs to make the transitions as seamless as possible.

Janice Bokor, a Coldwell Banker Realtor in Pennsylvania, specializing in re-location services for the pro athlete, has personal experience with the process.

“I am married to a retired pro football player and come from a family of athletes so I understand first hand the need for a trustworthy, confidential and informed realtor who knows how to connect with the client. Since the above was so hard to find I became a realtor myself to fill the void in this specialized pro athlete market and the rest is history.”

I also asked Janice how she makes the transition easier for the player and his family so moving is not as traumatic as it could be.

“Since moving a lot is, unfortunately, part of the pro athlete’s profession, I want them to leave their problems related to the process to me. My sole purpose is to handle every aspect of the real estate and relocation process so the athlete and his family can concentrate on what is important to them: their family and profession.”

“I also ensure that every detail of their move is in place, including shipment of all belongings, packing/unpacking services, school information, private jet service, bodyguards, personal trainers, chefs, nutritionists, utility service connections, doctors, interior designers, lawyers, financial advisers, etc. I never say no to a personal request and I make it my personal mission to ensure every client transitions smoothly and quickly from every single destination they need to be in.”

These are just two companies making a difference in athletes’ lives in professional and personal ways. Even though pro athletes are often idolized and put on pedestals, they are mere human beings with personal, family, and career needs. Thank goodness for companies willing to step up to the plate and offer genuine assistance for those who entertain us year after year

Michelle Hill

Assisting others in Becoming Champions in their sport, performance and Life

In the fall and winter of 09 I had the honor of facilitating my Inner Fitness program with a group of young lady soccer players. Today some of those young ladies were featured in the Nelson Daily News for their outstanding achievements. I am so proud of  Andrea Stinson (best all round athlete), Brittany Wheeler (top female scholar), and Sarah Fuhr (for basketball and soccer) all featured in this article.

It is so wonderful to be part of the world of sport and I love assisting in others becoming Champions in their sport, performance and life.

World Cup 2010 - Deep Hunger to Connect

Have been counting down to this day for what seems like a very long time! For those of you who may not be aware, (if that’s possible) today is start of the 2010 Football World Cup in South Africa. This is the first tournament held in the continent of Africa and promises to be special both on and off the pitch.


The first World Cup was in 1930 and since then it has grown to become one of world’s largest sporting events, bringing people from all different corners of the world together and giving them to opportunity to interact and connect. The digital age has opened up many new ways to connect with fans across the globe and also show your passion and love for the game of football, and your team. In this blog I hope will add something to why there is such a Deep Hunger to Connect through this World Cup experience.

In my upcoming documentary, book and game I begin by taking my audience on a journey to the ancient world where athletic contests were offerings to the gods and in some cases, notably the Mayas, it was the athletes themselves who were the offerings! Sport was more than entertainment, an afternoon at the ball game, it was an individual and group religious experience. Sport had divine purpose whether as a rite to win celestial favor, to placate an angry deity, or to honor departed heroes.

Michael Novak, author of The Joy of Sports, insists this purpose still exists today: ...sports flow outward from a deep natural impulse that is radically religious: an impulse of freedom, respect for ritual limits, a zest for symbolic meaning, and a longing for perfection.

Furthermore, Novak and others argue this function of sport is eternal whether we acknowledge this or not. Writes Andrew Cooper, Sports satisfy our deep hunger to connect with a realm of mythic meaning ... to see the transpersonal forces that work within and upon human nature enacted in dramatic form, and to experience the social cohesion that these forms make possible. Whether or not we so name them, these are religious functions.

Sport’s spiritual function works on both the level of the athlete and the audience; in fact, each is often dependent on the other. A winning performance by an athlete can stir a crowd into exhilaration, and they, in turn, can compel an athlete to new heights. Todays opening of the World Cup is a powerful example of how Cheering works, thus alludes to the popular notion of home team advantage whereby athletes are inspired by positive audience reaction and collective enthusiasm. Perhaps it’s not an accident, then, that the word enthusiasm comes from the Greek, meaning to be inspired or possessed by a god.

This religious aspect of sport, however, has once again been sublimated by a secular culture: Our society so thoroughly secularizes sport that we can barely recognize, let alone express, what it makes us feel, laments Cooper. Recognition of the sacred has been reduced to popular idioms such as team worship, sports icon and, yes, The Zone.

Owning the Zone traces the secularization of sport and asks the question, Did we go wrong and, if so, where? The implications of this question are far-reaching for they threaten to touch upon the malaise that is modern sport. Contract disputes and players’ strikes, diva behaviour among star athletes, crass commercialization, soaring ticket prices that make professional sports inaccessible to much of the masses, these and other problems might be attributed to some extent to the loss of sport’s sacred place.

Let me ask you this. What does the secularization of sport mean for athletes and what implications, if any, does it have on their ability to enter and Own The Zone?

There is a wonderful paradox in Buddhism about losing yourself in order to find yourself. Enlightenment can only be reached when one surrenders the ego to a higher power, surrenders individual goals to the greater good. One can play on the word goals here, for the new trend in coaching is to encourage athletes to do exactly the same as a monk. Phil Jackson works from the premise that When a player surrenders his self-interest for the greater good, his fullest gifts as an athlete are manifested...When players are totally focused on the team goal, their efforts can create chain reactions ... Selflessness is the soul of teamwork. It’s what makes the difference, Jackson argues, between an unsuccessful team with many talented players who cling to individual glory, and a successful team with average players who don’t.

This need to lose oneself in the game in order to win it also works in solo competitions like golf. As Dr. Gio Valiante, a Rollins College psychology professor who works with pro golfers, states. Someone who plays to impress others or prove something will have too many external thoughts to truly focus. The player who plays to learn, improve and excel is fully involved in the process and its details. That’s a player who can get into the zone and be more fulfilled.

However, now that The Zone has become a mainstream issue some would say a fad there is added pressure upon athletes to claim access to it.The Zone has become the Holy Grail of sport and most athletes, professional or amateur, feel the pressure to boast they’ve drunk from this cup. The irony is that, like the Holy Grail, the more you seek the glory of The Zone the more elusive it becomes.

The result is the paradox of the humble sports hero. One only has to think of the grace, and graciousness, of a Wayne Gretzky and contrast it with the out-of-control behaviour of a Mike Tyson or a Dany Heatley to see how this paradox works. Star athletes and teams are among a nation’s heroes, and our need for heroes who behave like heroes, who take their responsibility as role models seriously, runs deep within our cultural consciousness. When a hero falls from grace the collective disappointment is profound, shattering the faith and calling into question the very value and meaning of sport.

Owning the Zone concludes that professional sport must once again find the sacred within itself if it is to meet the needs of both athlete and audience. It is a question of survival. As we have argued throughout this documentary, sport is very much like a religion and it is worth noting that previous belief systems which failed to meet the needs of its adherents eventually drifted into oblivion or were consumed by another, stronger faith. If we as a culture are to hold onto this pathway to the divine, participants of sport, whether contestant or spectator, must continue to find The Zone, to marvel at its splendor, and find meaning in the experience.

This unique book and documentary will examine Peak Performers in Sports Entertainment and the strategies (internal performance strategy) unconsciously utilized by these peak performers that keep them Owning the Zone and that have made the difference that makes the difference in their lives and work

Through this exploration, you as the audience will discover a revelatory understanding of how peak performers achieve and maintain peak performance. By becoming fully being aware of how internal performance strategies program one for performance, you will learn how to utilize their own strategy in a more productive way.

You may actually like to try on a peak performer’s strategy to see how it can make a difference in their life and they can through my private coaching, soon to be released book and video game.

Reputation is What You are Perceived to be Character is what YOU are

This blog is dedicated to my grandson Baye ... there are no words that could better describe what being a teacher, coach and success really means.

Baye, may you one day on your journey through this thing called life watch this video by John Wooden and may you one day be blessed with a teacher/coach such as John.

Reputation is what YOU are perceived to be. Your character is what YOU are. Coaching for people not for points.

The role of Beliefs

Did you know that the a belief is not about reality?


You have a belief in place of knowledge about reality.


Beliefs are about the things that nobody can know in reality.


So now ask yourself what is my reality?