Discovering the Way of Intent: Energy, Calm, Power™️
- Devin Lebrun
- Oct 26
- 4 min read
Updated: Nov 8
I’ve spent most of my career working across medical devices, fitness, and nutrition. Each of these industries is filled with people trying to help others live better.
Over time, I began to see a recurring pattern.
We treat parts and symptoms.
We measure and optimize individual numbers.
We design solutions that work on paper, in isolation.
And somehow, people still don’t feel well.
Healthcare pays for what can be isolated and measured. Fitness sells what can be tracked and seen in the mirror. Nutrition reduces life to data and targets. Each system improves one aspect of health but rarely connects the whole.
People are trying to feel better yet keep chasing solutions that only treat symptoms. Energy rises and crashes. The mind calms for a moment, then races again. Strength builds in one direction while balance fades in another.
Progress looks good on paper but doesn’t feel complete. That realization became the seed of Energy, Calm, Power™️.
What Modern Health Misses
Working in healthcare, I saw how reimbursement shapes priorities. Devices, procedures, and medications all have codes attached to them. Breathwork, posture, and stress regulation do not.
The system rewards control more than awareness. It values intervention over prevention. Most people end up managing conditions rather than learning how to support their own balance.
Fitness, nutrition, and wellness each try to fill the gap, but they often reinforce the same separation. Medicine treats the mechanical. Fitness pushes performance. Wellness sells escape.
Few teach how to live from an integrated place where energy, calm, and power naturally support one another in everyday life.
Looking for What Connects It All
I reached a point of deep frustration and a longing that wasn’t being met. I wanted to understand what holds everything together. What is at the essence of it all? What creates real stability and vitality beyond programs and trends?
That search led me to Steve Ehrenreich and the Way of Intent, a practice rooted in internal martial arts and Buddhist chi gung.
Although I am a grappler and BJJ practitioner, I wasn’t looking for a fight system. I was looking for a framework that restored balance from the inside out. Through this work, I discovered something simple and universal. When posture, breath, and attention reconnect, the whole system begins to organize itself.
Tension releases
Movement feels lighter
Focus sharpens
Calm stops meaning stillness and starts meaning stability
I realized this wasn’t about style or technique. It was about how human beings organize themselves under pressure.
The martial path was one doorway, but the essence underneath it applies to everyone. The same foundation that steadies a fighter can steady a teacher, a parent, or anyone navigating modern life.
Energy, Calm, Power™️
These three words describe how balance feels when it is real.
Energy is the natural vitality that appears when the body is aligned and the breath moves freely.
Calm is the stability that comes from a regulated nervous system and grounded attention.
Power is what happens when the two work together in motion. It is strength that feels clear and efficient instead of forced.
They are not separate goals to chase. They are signs of a system working as one.
When energy, calm, and power align, life feels less like managing and more like moving with purpose.
Building from the Ground Up
ECP begins in stillness.
We stand, breathe, and sense.
We align the body with gravity and let awareness spread evenly through the frame.
We notice where tension hides and learn how to release it.
As breath and structure begin to cooperate, energy stops leaking through effort. Calm becomes readiness instead of withdrawal. Power feels steady because it comes from organization, not strain.
This is not abstract philosophy. It is practical training in how to stand, breathe, and move through pressure without collapsing into it.
When the foundation is organized, everything built on top becomes more efficient. Strength, focus, creativity, and patience all improve because the base is stable.
A Simpler Way Forward
After decades inside systems designed to manage health, I’ve come to see that most people don’t need more strategies. They need a reliable way to reconnect their own system.
The body already knows how to balance. The breath already knows how to regulate. What’s missing is awareness and space to let that happen.
Energy, Calm, Power™️ is a return to that awareness. It provides a foundation for whatever you choose to build — physical training, leadership, family, or a calmer way of moving through the day.
It isn’t another program to master, but a reminder.
The qualities we keep chasing were never gone. They were waiting for us to come back into alignment.
Energy.
Calm.
Power.
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Written by *Devin Lebrun, who has spent more than two decades leading innovation across medical devices, fitness, and nutrition
His current work, *Energy, Calm, Power™️, brings together internal practice and modern science to help people rebuild the foundation needed to meet the demands of modern life
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