Today we’d like to introduce you to Shawn Boissinotte Alexis.
Hi Shawn, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
The short version of how I ended up becoming a teacher at a Kung Fu retreat… Well, I started practicing Kung Fu on January 1st, 2018, I’ve always wanted to learn Kung Fu when I was younger and that day my intuition told me I needed to start learning and so I did. For a year I did basic training I could find on youtube so I could get my body used to these movements, later on when the pandemic happened and everyone was in lockdown that’s when I decided to get deeper into Kung Fu. Since I had so much free time, I subscribed to a Kung Fu website and started training Shaolin Kung Fu every day. At that same time that’s when I had my spiritual awakening and decided to travel the world during the pandemic to get away from the fear agenda. My journey started in Ibiza, then Estonia, after that I spent 4 months in Germany training “Seven Star Mantis style Kung Fu”.
After these 4 months, my teacher made me aware of the Kung Fu retreat in Thailand and so that’s where I wanted to go, after being denied to fly to Thailand due to many requirements to enter the country I decided to make my way there by train and bus. I was able to go from Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and since I couldn’t make it past Turkey, I went back home to Montreal, Canada and later on traveled stateside and went to Atlanta, New York, Vegas, Mount Shasta, Los Angeles and Sedona. While in Sedona I was camping in the desert and one day I got an email from the retreat stating that they were offering a scholarship to be at the retreat and be trained by them to eventually become a teacher and that’s why I’m here now. There’s a lot more details to this story but I’m being mindful of the paragraph size.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
There were struggles across the whole way every stop it was something, from girl trouble to being denied entry to Ukraine because I didn’t have a PCR test to getting my passport confiscated by a bus driver when I passed the Turkish border, there were so many that I know this story is going to be turned into a movie. As they say, I was going through my shadow work, I faced my biggest fears, one of them being homeless, for a period of 6 months from that time period I was in Mount Shasta all the way up until I was in Sedona I was homeless and camping outside in a small tent I could even send you that picture. That journey is synonymous with obstacles but it was a learning experience that has made me stronger. They are many more details but again I’m being mindful of the paragraph length.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
So I teach Kung Fu and Qigong at the Nam Yam Kung Fu retreat in Pai, Thailand and I also DJ and produce dance music and I’m learning to implement sound alchemy in my production, I would say this is what I’m most known for. What I’m most proud of is the fact that I’m not afraid to pave my own way and go against everything that’s conventional thinking, I follow my intuition and my heart and wouldn’t live any other way. What sets me apart from others is my state of being I call it “Limitless” you achieve this state by pushing every boundaries of your intuitive and creative mind, similarly to how Bruce Lee defines being limitless.
Do you have any advice for those just starting out?
Block out all the noise and just follow your heart and intuition, trained it so that voice becomes more powerful and you become untouchable. There’s going to be obstacles and by no means is this easy but it’s the most rewarding thing you can do for yourself.
Contact Info:
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- SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/s-b-a
