14 DAY TRIAL // Jennifer Aniston has always been in top shape and this is not about to change even if she passed the somewhat dreaded 40 mark. An avid practitioner of yoga and other outdoors activities, the former “Friends” star has often spoken out about rarely needing to diet to stay in shape. Practicing Budokon with Cameron Shayne also helps greatly in this sense, as How Celebrities Lose Weight points out.
Cameron Shayne is a martial arts expert with an impressive background that includes training stars for more challenging movie parts, acting as bodyguard for celebrities who usually generate mass hysterias when they step out in public, and opening his own school for a special type of workout called Budokon. Aside from the many celebrities with whom Shayne has worked with throughout the years, the trainer reveals he’s also helping Jennifer Aniston stay in top shape.
“By exploring the physical, emotional and spiritual body through movement, diet and meditation, the student works toward achieving truly sustainable health, wellness and personal power. She started with me last summer. But she’s a busy woman so she tries to get in when she’s in town. Because Jen’s very laid back. It’s good for her to get some of that fire energy out.” Shayne said in a recent interview about teaching Budokon to the actress.
For those who are not in the know, Budokon is a special type of workout that combines elements of martial arts with yoga and meditation. It is an extremely challenging fitness routine with which practitioners can lose up to 900 calories per each session, while also placing a lot of stress on being a social activity, like is the case with most martial arts. Budokon implies attaining balance and learning to channel the energy so as to make the most of the body. Each Budokon class has three disciplines, meditation, martial arts and yoga, with teachers adjusting them to the needs of each student individually.
“Budokon is a living art. By that I mean it is the art of living. It is your waking and your sleeping, your walking and your sitting, your living and your dying. I cannot say that it is more special than any other art. In fact, it is not special at all. It is the practitioner who brings all that the art is, all that the art will ever be. Budokon is not about gaining ideas. There is nothing to gain from it. It is simply a way. Our way is the Zen way. We are not a religion or a devotional practice. We do not practice to become enlightened. We practice because we are enlightened. If you are seeking something in order to gain something, this is the wrong practice. Budokon is empty of gaining ideas. If you believe there is something to gain from it, you will always be disappointed by it. This is the first lesson in our art. We must come to it, like all things, with a pure mind, free from attachment and gaining ideas. This is why we suffer. Budokon is freedom from suffering, nothing more.” founder Shayne says of Budokon on the official webpage.
Since it was started in 2000, Cameron Shayne's Budokon can list stars like Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox Arquette and husband David, Rene Russo, Meg Ryan and US Olympic beach volleyball gold medalist Kerri Walsh among the most loyal clients.