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Find more peace, purpose and JOY by stretching and strengthening your soul
That’s not just our slogan. It’s one of the first things Christians said to each other in worship. We’ve been saying it for 2,000 years.
‘Lift up your hearts!’ the priest says.
’We lift them up to the Lord!’ the people respond.
In Latin: Sursum Corda. The earliest prayer of the earliest church.
It literally means ‘Hearts up!’ (with the exclamation point - it’s a command!)
It’s how we orient ourselves to God. It’s where everything begins.
And it’s where you’ll begin, too.
You were made for more than this.
Isn’t there more than this?
More than the busyness. The noise. The endless to-do list that never gets shorter.
More than showing up on Sunday and leaving feeling exactly the same.
More than knowing about God from a safe distance.
The earliest Christians asked the same questions.
And some of them walked out into the desert to find the answer. They left the noise behind. They stripped life down to what actually mattered.
They discovered that the soul - like the body - was made to be trained. Stretched. Strengthened.
You don’t have to go to the desert.
But you do have to practice.
Here’s the truth: You can’t think your way into relationship with God. You have to participate in the relationship.
The earliest Christians didn’t debate theology or belong to denominations. They prayed. They fasted. They worshiped. They broke bread together. They served each other with radical generosity.
And their lives were radically transformed by actual encounter with the risen Christ.
Yours can be, too
Christians have been training their souls for 2,000 years.
Trexo: Ancient Christian practice for modern life.
None of this is new. In fact, it’s very, very old.
Trexo recovers the way of living practiced by the earliest Christians - not as theory, not as information, but as lived practice. Day by day, week by week, season by season.
Trexo is pre-denominational.
Back to the basics of Christianity, before denominations existed.
These practices unite Catholics, Orthodox, Anglicans, Lutherans, Pentecostals, Non-denominationals, and every Christian tradition because they’re foundational to all of them.
What Trexo offers: a spiritual fitness framework rooted in how the first followers of Jesus actually lived their faith. Small, repeated actions that build your relationship with God.
It’s not a church. but it’s not not a church. It’s how church started.
Meet your Trainers
You won’t be practicing alone.
Trexo’s coaches come from across the history of the church — monastics, mystics, bishops, and scholars who spent their lives doing exactly what you are about to do. Training their souls. And teaching others to do the same.
A few of them:
Basil the Great (329-379) founded monastic communities built entirely around spiritual practice. He knew that the soul needed structure, community, and daily discipline to thrive. He called it askesis — and he built a whole way of life around it.
Amma Syncletica (circa 380-460) was one of the Desert Mothers — women who left everything behind to practice the faith in the Egyptian desert. People traveled from across the known world to seek her wisdom. She spoke of the spiritual life in unmistakably athletic terms: a discipline, a contest, a training that required both courage and perseverance.
“In the beginning,” she taught, “there are a great many battles and a good deal of suffering for those who are advancing towards God — but after that, indescribable joy.”
Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) created the Spiritual Exercises — one of the most powerful soul-training programs in Christian history. He opened it with these words:
“For as strolling, walking and running are bodily exercises, so every way of preparing and disposing the soul to rid itself of all the disordered tendencies, and, after it is rid, to seek and find the Divine Will as to the management of one’s life for the salvation of the soul, is called a Spiritual Exercise.”
Ignatius also knew that not everyone could leave their ordinary life for a thirty-day silent retreat. So he designed a way to do the full Exercises in the middle of everyday life — at home, at work, in the world. He called it the 19th Annotation.
We call it Trexo.
They were talking to people just like you. People who felt that longing. That sense of being made for more.
They still are.
You will meet them — and many others — as you practice. Every Wednesday at 3:30pm ET, we gather live for Coffee with Coaches to hear from them directly.
Their wisdom. Their voices. Their guidance for your practice right now.
Gym members have access to the complete archive of ‘interviews’ with our Ancient Church spiritual Trainers…
A Workout you commit to
Every serious athlete has a training plan.
You don’t walk into a gym, pick up whatever equipment looks interesting, and hope for the best. You follow a plan. A structure. A rhythm that builds on itself over time.
In the ancient church, they called it a Rule of Life.
A ‘ruler’ in the sense of a structural framework that provides rhythm, consistency, and direction for life with God - which is our whole life.
At Trexo, we call it your Workout.
It’s the same thing: creating a structure around the Practices you commit to, and a time frame for committing to them.
It’s the framework for consciously living your whole life in active relationship with God.
Gym members have access to the Workout Builder and Rule of Life Coaching:
Start Here: Hearts Up!
Everyone - free members and gym members - starts the same way:
Try the Hearts Up! practice for a week.
Hearts Up! is your foundation. It’s the Sursum Corda - the ancient call to lift your heart to God. Morning, midday, evening. It takes 3 seconds. It changes everything.
See how you literally turn towards God. Then let me know how it feels.
→ Start with Hearts Up! (Free)
Ready for the full gym?
If you’re ready to commit to JOY, strength, and deeper connection with God—get ready to put in some time at the Trexo gym.
Free members get:
Hearts Up! practice (forever)
Access to blog posts and concepts
Gym members get:
Participation in all the Practices: Daily Anchor, Weekly Rhythm, Seasonal Intensives
Coffee with Coaches every Wednesday at 3:30pm Eastern (and access to the recording archive)
→ Become a Gym Member
Become a Trexo Chapter
Communities can participate in the Practices together - you can use it as your Christian formation. There’s a discount for groups of 5 or more:
Your community can also become a Trexo Chapter:
Create your own Practices based on Trexo Guidelines.
Use Trexo Practices as the base, then add Worship, Prayer, Hospitality, and Services Practices unique to your own Chapter.
Create your own Christian Statement of Faith - connected to the earliest church (and therefore to all/any denomination).
Transform from a ‘congregation’ to a ‘Community of Practice’ - by changing your vision, intention, and connection to the earliest church.
Chapters subscribe to Trexo at the ‘founding’ level.
Learn more HERE.
You’re grounded in what unites all Christians
When you practice these ancient disciplines, you’re not joining a denomination.
You’re joining the Church.
The living body of Christ across 2,000 years, uniting every tradition, connecting everyone who follows Jesus.
This requires something of you
Just like the physical gym - it works if you work it.
You were made for more than this.
Find out how much more when you commit to stretching and strengthening your soul. When you discover that your whole life is life with God.
Ready? Let’s hit the gym…
Hearts up!
