About Us

When you find yourself wishing that something existed, that’s probably a sign you should create it yourself.

 

That’s the attitude that led Garrett and I to build Command Z from a wide-eyed conversation over pints of IPA into an online multimedia curriculum and international community of clients.

We had each discovered Radical Undoing on our own, after years of devouring books and exploring body-mind practices. In Radical Undoing, we each found a method that worked in a way that nothing else had. It rocketed us into a depth of body awareness and relaxation we had begun to assume were myths. And best of all, there was no dogma, no belief system, no Guru to go along with it—just an effective practice. For both Garrett and I, once we discovered it, we knew: This is it. No turning back. Wherever this path leads, I shall go.

Years passed, we each developed our practices. Garrett trained with Dr. Christopher S. Hyatt, who had helped develop and popularize the work, and who coined the term Radical Undoing. By the time I was ready to contact Dr. Hyatt myself, after working with the books and DVDs he had published, I found he had passed, leaving me wondering if I’d ever find someone to work with.

 

And then, through the symphony of synchronicity that weaves the world together…

 

I found that Garrett—the guy who had completed the Radical Undoing DVD series after Hyatt’s passing—lived 100 miles south of me. So I met him, we started working together, and eventually he moved up to Portland, OR, where I was living. We started dedicating all day every Sunday to undoing, and each of our practices accelerated exponentially. It was one of the most exciting times in each of our lives.

After each Sunday, we’d have venison burgers and pints of IPA, and we’d talk. We talked about the future of Radical Undoing as a practice. We talked about how hard it is to find out about this work, and to find others interested in it, let alone people to learn from. We talked about how amazing it would be if some sort of online “university” existed, where people from all over the world could come together, share their practices, and have the kinds of experiences we were having.

 

And then we thought, “Uh…Why don’t we create that?”

 

After all, who else was going to? Our combined experience argued for our ability to take on the project: Garrett had worked with Dr. Hyatt, and I had worked for years as a University professor, both in physical and online classrooms. We each felt confident enough in our grasp of the practice to teach it to others. Every potential obstacle seemed solvable by the possibilities the Internet offered.

Sure, it was a scary idea. But as soon as we started talking about it, we understood, in the same way we each understood when we began our own journeys into Radical Undoing: This was it. We could feel it. We knew it. And we each threw all our belongings in our cars and moved down to Ojai, CA to pursue it.

And then, of course, came the resistances.

 

Nothing is ever as easy as it seems, and we soon found ourselves facing a multitude of unexpected obstacles. Anxieties ran high. So-called friends tried subtly to discourage us. We had to learn to work with each other in new ways, and avoid the petty squabbles would often arise. At the time, we had no idea that these were the first “guardians of the threshold”; the initiation anyone has to go through when venturing beyond the confines of the ordinary in order to create something new.

And then there were the logistics. How do we talk about this work? How do we reach our audience? We had to learn more than we though we’d ever have to learn about the Internet. And we had to carry out a hell of a lot more trial and error experiments than we ever thought we’d be comfortable with.

 

But we persevered, and as we built it, they came.

 

We did a podcast. We did live courses on Justin.tv. People came out of the woodwork who, like us in previous years, had wondered if anyone else knew about this work. We started doing Undoing sessions on Skype and in person. We met amazing people who helped us in unexpected ways, as if by design. We daily challenged our fears and uncertainties, living by the quote I’d copied out of a Mark Joyner book: “Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.” Not long after I’d taped that quote over my desk, we ended up developing a Radical Undoing course for Mark Joyner’s Simpleology website.

 

Command Z began to take on a life of its own.

Those live courses evolved into an interactive multimedia forum model, where clients work through the material at their own speed, and interact directly with each other and with us. Many clients have begun to contribute materials to assist newer clients in beginning their own practice. Some are starting to introduce the work to others in their own cities and towns.

And now that we’ve built an Inner Circle of active and advanced clients, we’re reaching out more. We know there are people out there who, like us in former years, are wandering, drifting from one practice, one ideology, one belief system to another, still looking for a practice with enough impact to finally put the search to rest. Our goal is to not to provide a belief system or dogma, but an alternative to belief: A proven method of major brain change and life change, and a context within which to explore it.