By the end of our first meetings, after an hour or two in the gym and an hour or two at the coffee shop discussing the writing, it was clear that while Jerry may be teaching in the gym via weight-training and fitness, that's not what he's teaching. I now had an understanding of why he said he didn't know of anyone else doing what he was doing, and why he was having trouble writing about it.
I asked him, Why this particular path?
"Fitness is easier to teach than spirituality," he said.
At this point I'd been lifting weights for more than half my life.
When the student is ready the teacher appears.