Charlie facilitates a regular session at Yoga By The Sea called Zone Zero Coaching, Wednesdays at 7:30-9pm.

“Zone Zero Coaching means to coach one’s self. In order do this we must understand our body’s language. In this class, we learn many of its signals as well as introductory elements of conventional strength training, Yoga asanas, Chi Gong, and self-massage. We bring comfort and alignment back to well-worked bodies. 

We go through a flow with plenty of room for personalization in accordance with individual injuries or guidance. This class can be seen as a gateway to self-care. No experience necessary.

If you have it, bring a foam-roller, running stick and/or a lacrosse ball.

$10 per class (4 class commitment). This allows participants to complete and review 2 questionnaires that reveal appropriate diet typing, overall physiological load, and areas of the body that require extra attention.

To register email Charlie at RegenerativeDevelopments@gmail.com

About Charlie

Charlie Durrant is a multidisciplinary holistic health coach. He started out as a surfing and kitesurfing Instructor in the Dominican Republic in 2009. Through rehabilitating a tibia plateau fracture and ruptured ACL in his right knee he became an inspired and experienced powerlifter and overall health and fitness enthusiast. Before settling in BC he had traveled to over 30 countries learning from many cultures and a myriad of self-development & self-realization methods. Today Charlie is a BCRPA certified fitness trainer and CHEK Institute trained Holistic Lifestyle Coach. Aside from his holistic health practice, he works as a Permaculture Designer and Carpenter. In his free time, he can be found on/in the ocean, or, up the mountain on various re-wilding adventures.

Testimonials

“Charlie is a transformational coach who works with the limitations within at the same time, working on strength building and mobility . After 6 weeks of his coaching I feel better than ever. Thank you Charlie” – Aaron Joe, Founder of Salish Soils

“I have been working out with Charlie for some time now and it has reinvigorated not only my workouts but my approach to many things in life. It’s not just about working out with Charlie it’s about finding balance between workouts and my life. I look forward to many more workouts and highly recommend anybody to work with Charlie and his zone zero coaching.” – Chris August, Shishalh Nation Councillor

Testimonials

“Charlie is a transformational coach who works with the limitations within at the same time, working on strength building and mobility. After 6 weeks of his coaching, I feel better than ever.

“I have been working out with Charlie for some time now and it has reinvigorated not only my workouts but my approach to many things in life. It’s not just about working out with Charlie it’s about finding the balance between workouts and my life. I look forward to many more workouts and highly recommend anybody to work with Charlie and his zone zero coaching.” – Chris August – Shishalh Nation Councillor

Charlie’s Health Journey
Charlie maintains a humble stance throughout all sessions, owning the fact that he has not always been a great example of health. He knows what it’s like to have been through the ups and downs of any journey, to have fallen off the horse a few times, and to have climbed back on. He likes to believe that he learned health optimization the right way, the hard way.

Charlie grew up eating a suboptimal diet, skateboarded obsessively, did jiu-jitsu, boxing and started going to all night illegal raves in the British Countryside when he was 14. He formed his synergistic relationship with his body slowly. He was introduced to traditional plant medicines at a fairly early age, which, while risky, he feels offered a level of reverence for the natural world in an otherwise perceivably hedonistic culture. He credits the repetitive music of rave culture for mimicking the drum of ancient times, and the meditation during long dances surrounded by a peaceful mix of people from all walks of life (groups that in a conventional British pub/club setting, would often clash), for discovering a sense of unity, something that would turn out to be invaluable.

Charlie experienced a Tibial Plateau Fracture and ruptured ACL in a Kitesurfing accident when he was 17 and was told that he would probably limp, and struggle in sport for the rest of his life. This was a wake-up call and he got to work ensuring he would still be able to travel the world and transition to a more natural life. That year he lost his best friend to an accident, worked through intense sadness, and continued to party harder than your average British footloose youth which continued on ever more sporadically into his twenties.

Charlie worked through it taking his knee rehabilitation as an opportunity to learn his way around the gym, and steadily shifted to a majority whole food & ever more natural diet while travelling between The Dominican Republic, S/e Asia and Australia, earning his living teaching surfing, kitesurfing, working in conventional agriculture, permaculture, and other physically demanding jobs.

Once Charlie learned of the quantities of glyphosate that GMO’s have been adapted to endure, non-organic eating began to feel like subtle subconscious self-harming, as well as commissioning poor people to work in cancer-causing jobs  and buying shares in environmental degradation. At first, he lacked the self-esteem to do it for himself, but through travelling the world befriending farmers, and then returning to Canada, a country with the luxury of choice, he felt compelled to eat organic so that his friends and their children, and millions of others wouldn’t have to work in fields breathing and touching chemicals, or sign unsustainable contracts with seed/chemical manufacturers.

Charlie had been surrounded by yoga teachers as friends, colleagues, and even housemates throughout his travels and dipped his toe in occasionally, but he didn’t dedicate too much time for it until he had first completed a man’s noble pursuit of getting ripped and learning to build and live off the land.

Charlie took a Holistic Lifestyle Coaching course from the CHEK Institute, where he was formally introduced to Yoga and Chi Gong. He also completed a Fitness Trainer Certificate with BCRPA and started working as a Holistic Lifestyle Coach at Valhalla Gym in Sechelt, until his Carpentry Apprenticeship made it temporarily impractical.

Charlie was able to maintain a decent physical appearance throughout his Carpentry apprenticeship, and remained among the most functionally fit guys on any given job site, yet, small or big, injuries were rife, and Charlie’s own body needed work. His dharma was calling him in other directions and It was obvious to him that he was being guided to focus on health, peace of mind (and body), and food savannahs.

By his mid-twenties, Charlie was well read in eastern philosophy and the benefits of eastern medicine. At 27 years old, with his body leading him, he accepted Yoga also part of his practice.  Today he includes and credits technologies from yoga and many other paths in his practice, but remains objective tourist of many practices for the sake of reason, evolution, entropy and unity.

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