Twelve people. Four weeks.
One thing you leave with.
One program runs every month at Culture of Sweat, chosen by the studio. Twelve people, a start and an end, a practice with evidence behind it, and something you walk out holding: a habit that held, four pages nobody reads, a letter in the mail, three breathing patterns you keep. Ninety nine for members, 199 for anyone else with four weeks of unlimited rides thrown in. Included, every month, for life, for the founding 50.
Twelve programs a year at 99 is 1,188. Founders pay nothing for any of them, ever.
01 · The ten
November is Reset. December is The Write. January is Dry.
After that the studio picks from the shelf. When a block fills, a second one opens. Every program rides at talk pace unless it says otherwise, and every one ends with the thing you came for and eleven people who watched you do it.
Reset
For everyone who signs up before the doors open. The launch cohort.
Twelve rides done in four weeks, and a habit that holds.
Three rides a week, any number, the bike fit first. Week three the cohort rides together. The twelfth ride is all twelve of you on the thirteen bikes. By the end, showing up is the easy part.
The Write
For anyone carrying something into the dark months.
Four pieces of writing nobody reads, and a lighter December.
Twenty five minutes at talk pace, fifteen minutes of writing at the lounge table, five of silence. What happened. What it did to you. What you would say to them. What you keep.
Dry
For the sober curious, and anyone whose Saturday night is a bar.
Four weeks without a drink, and a Saturday night that is not a bar.
Morning Rave the first Saturday. Your Song the second. A Saturday 8 p.m. ride in place of the bar on the hard week. The last Saturday is the cohort's own night. Not treatment: if you drink heavily every day, see a doctor before you stop.
Breath School
For the anxious, the hockey parents, anyone who wants a skill they keep.
Three slow breathing patterns you can do anywhere, and your own numbers.
One pattern a week on the climbs: resonance, the long exhale, the box, then your own. One session is the same, lying down. You log your own numbers from your own watch.
Sleep
For shift workers, new parents, the 3 a.m. people.
One wake time held for 28 days, and twenty minutes of rest you can do awake.
Two easy rides a week that end twenty minutes lying down, awake, a paper log, the same wake time every day. We say rest, and a wake time you keep. Nothing else is promised.
Kind
For the self critical and the burned out carers.
Four people you were kind to on purpose. One of them is you.
Four people held in mind on four climbs. One card a week to someone, the week two card to yourself, kept. Mirrors off on week two.
Look Up
For the stressed who stopped noticing anything.
A smaller week and four photographs.
One Look Up ride a week, one fifteen minute walk on your own, one photograph to the cohort. At the end of the ride, you look up.
You and Me
For couples, old friends, siblings, two colleagues. Pairs.
Thirty six questions answered, and one person who knows you better.
Four rides side by side, nine questions a ride asked on the climbs and answered on the flats, one shared card after each. Closeness, not repair.
Founders
For Nanaimo's small business owners and the people about to be.
Four operating lessons in your own hand, and a room of owners who know your name.
A Tuesday ride, then twenty minutes at the lounge table on one lesson: the offer, the first customer, the system, the number that matters. Education only.
Moms
For mothers of young children.
Four hours that were only yours, and eleven women who know what that costs.
The same slot each week, booked in one go. A card at the door for what you put down. Week three you choose the music. First call on the slot next month.
02 · The shape
Every program has the same four weeks.
Two touches a week: one program ride, and one thing you do on your own. Every program puts one number or one thing on the wall in the room, first names only.
The cohort meets. Names. One line on a card that says why you came. The practice is taught once, plainly.
The practice repeats. The first number you own goes on the wall.
The hard week. You do the practice without the coach leading it.
The card from week one, read back. The thing you leave with. The next month, named.
Twelve programs a year at 99 each. The founding 50 pay nothing for any of them, for as long as they are members.
The founding offer
03 · Save my seat
Twelve seats a month. Founders choose first.
Pick the program you want. We hold a seat, email you the dates before the doors open, and put you on the founding list with first call on one of the 50 spots. No payment now, nothing to cancel.
Programs run in their own slots, on top of the thirty one classes a week. A program is 99 on its own for a member, or 199 for a non member with unlimited rides for its length.