S2 | E7 LeRoy Gordon, Fitness and Yoga Instructor, a Reiki Healer and a Men's Group Leader

LeRoy Gordon's life reads like no one would believe — Cabrini Green housing projects to Walter Payton High School, college athlete to police officer, pro wrestler on Canadian and international tours to yoga teacher and men's circle facilitator. In this conversation, LeRoy opens up about growing up without a present father, enduring physical and emotional abuse, and the core wound of needing to be seen that drove everything from his athletic pursuits to his relationship patterns.
We dig into how he almost joined the Navy SEALs out of sheer restlessness, how a CM Punk sighting at a WWE show finally gave him permission to chase his childhood dream of pro wrestling, and how the pandemic brought that chapter to a close and cracked open a new one. LeRoy shares how Landmark Forum was his first real taste of sitting with other people and processing what he'd been through, how an MDMA ceremony on his birthday helped him finally connect with his mother in a three-hour conversation that changed everything, and how ayahuasca and men's group work took him even deeper.
We also get into his experiments with polyamory and how the radical communication it demands made him a better partner across the board, his recent ADHD discovery and how it reframed decades of restlessness and relationship patterns, and how Reiki, tarot, and yoga have become the unexpected through-line tying it all together. LeRoy is now leading his own men's circles, teaching yoga at Fourth Movement Studio in Logan Square, and building something that bridges the worlds of physical transformation and inner healing — and this conversation is a front-row seat to how he got there.

Bio

LeRoy Gordon is a fitness coach, yoga instructor, and men's group facilitator in the city of Chicago. After over six years of working the professional wrestling circuits of the US and Canada, LeRoy shifted his focused from his physical pursuits to healing his heart and mind with the help of men's work and plant medicine. He has led men's circles for nearly five years. He hopes to guide and inspire men to be the most open hearted and authentic versions of themselves so that they may continue the work of reducing harm and helping our communities thrive.

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