From the beginning, Rmax has been an attempt to organize those scattered pieces into a program for the average person.
He also had three black belts and was a yoga instructor, and those last two made him fall in love with CST instantly.
Now, Steven was already a world-renowned writer, New York Times bestseller, and a Master Hypnotist to boot.
From Maximology to Body-Flow and Clubbells, to CST and onward, it was constant experimentation, integration, and re-invention, again and again, with that one goal: taking everything that I had created from childhood, everything I had learned in twenty-five years of blood and tears, everything discovered in a century of study at a cost of billions of rubles…and make it available to the average person.
Steve became one of the forces encouraging me to simplify and turnkey. Partially under his urging, the breakthrough FlowFit program, reverse engineering and improving an ancient series of exercises called the Five Tibetans, came into being.
It was one of the first Rmax products designed for the general public, and became a best seller. The race was on. Together, we created the breakthrough Path workshop, our first attempt to bring together the physical and mental aspects of training, and with the feedback from those four workshops went back into the lab, digging deeper.
He said that this experience really helped him get in touch with his mortality, and swore he would spend the rest of his life passing on the knowledge that had helped him create the life of his childhood dreams.
Steve became both student and friend, earning a coaching credential under me. And he's adventured: one memorably experience came when he and his daughter were charged by an elephant on the lip of Ngorogoro crater in Tanzania.
"Scott and Steve wove their work together, their own personal mastery blending into the process. I know that I will be processing this for a long time to come, for this is the path.” " - Joseph Schwartz, CST In 2002, I met an amazing guy named Steven Barnes .
He’d lectured from UCLA to the Smithsonian Institute, and was former Kung Fu Columnist for Black Belt Magazine.
We overlayed ancient and modern techniques, saw where they agreed, and took that as the core, discarding the non-essential, testing this on our students and clients and ourselves, letting it blossom,[...].
His friend and mentor Sufi Master Mushtaq Ali Ansari became a part of this process, sharing secrets that had never been exposed to the outside world.