The Passive Hang

Vincent Vis @vincent_vis, Le Floorwork Deconstructor comes onto the Passive Hang! Vincent is a movement teacher based in Dublin, Ireland but is originally from France. Online, Vincent shares amazing resources on handbalancing and floorwork, on YouTube, Instagram and also via his course Floorwork Academy. I recently started one of his Floorwork Foundations courses and am loving the material, along...

Marlo Fisken (@marlofisken) joins the Passive Hang podcast! Marlo is a movement teacher, an innovator in the field of pole and floorwork. She is currently in Virginia, USA. Marlo breaks beyond the stereotypical “seriousness” of movement practitioners. See any of her content and you’ll get a sense of what I mean - playful, sensual, provocative. It’s real, and there’s no way of describing other than...

Soisci Porchetta on the Passive Hang ! (@soisci_human_patterns). Soisci is a movement teacher at @praksiscanberra, in a former life was a Muay Thai World Champion, and has studied closely with Ido Portal and Jozef Frucek.  I met Soisci last year when I went up to @praksiscanberra. I took several classes she led - movement practice, handstand, longevity, and even had the pleasure of training alongs...

Aaron Martin (@aaronmartintin) on the podcast! Aaron is a Hong Kong based teacher and practitioner, a self proclaimed acrobatics nerd. “Soft” Acrobatics is a kind of new term I see describing this interesting mixture of contemporary dance, bboying, capoeira, tricking, circus, locomotion… It’s beautiful to watch, a movement style which mixes gentleness, superb control and grace into moves tradition...

Damien Cooper on the Passive Hang. @coopaloop_____ , founder of the Movement Improvement Clinic in Newcastle, Australia, and part of the team at The Movement Collective, all around legend. Damien is an osteopath and movement teacher and practitioner.  Damien raises some powerful and interesting points in our conversation. Are you at peace with your practice? Surrendering to the process, accepting...

@agrifforama, Aaron Griffiths, back on the podcast for Round 2- Loco about Loco! Aaron and I share a mutual love, being the art of “locomotion” - basically - a practice exploring how one can move along the ground and in space. Its roots are from Capoeira, but it’s an open container where anything goes - rolling, inverting, flipping, crawling, dancing - using whatever body part as support. We talk...

Jacob “Krazy Kujo” Lyons (@krazykujo) comes onto the Passive Hang! Jacob, better known as Krazy Kujo, has been a stalwart in the breakdancing scene since the 90s. Jacob initially caught my eye due to his unique mix of practices - on his Instagram page you can see him pulling 280kg on a sumo deadlift, and then busting out all sorts of crazy footwork with a breakdance in between sets. Doing my resea...

The man, the myth, the legend - Lewie West! (@lewie.west) on the Passive Hang. Lewie is a generalist acrobat who has been performing around the world for the past 12 years, now settled in Tasmania, Australia.  We learn his approach to acrobatic movement - creating options, utilising the whole body (not just feet and hands!), floor surfaces, falling, mental preparation, creative inspiration and seq...

Tanner Walker (@tannerwalker_hmp) joins us for Episode 51 of the Passive Hang! Tanner is a movement practitioner and coach from Seattle on the west coast of America. He runs Hybrid Movement Practice and teaches in person at the Fremont Gymnasium, a movement group in Mercer Island, and teaches online.  Tanner is the real deal. He opens up about his transformation in trusting himself, trusting his b...

Episode 50 with Ryan Hurst @ryhurst, one of the founders of Gold Medal Bodies (GMB) fitness @gmbfitness.  I met Ryan 2 years ago when I was back travelling around on my bicycle in Japan. At the time, I was wandering, searching for inspiration. I had found this movement thing and was looking to connect with others - except in Japan, no one seemed to know what that was. At the time I was learning a...

It’s been a year since the Passive Hang launched it’s first episode. The first episode was a solo episode, and episode 49 is an update from the host. Sharing reflections of my movement journey, and of the Passive Hang.    It’s a special time for me at the moment - I have just finished with my teacher, @tejovra.    I’ve been learning from him for 2 years. During this time my physicality has transfo...

Special podcast episode! A follow up to the vlog released last week, I have Bilal Zeine (@bilalzeine) and Ben Byfield (@meditativemonkey) as co-hosts to chat about our experience going to Gains in the Ghetto, a movement and handbalancing workshop at Ghetto Movement, Wollongong Australia - featuring teachers Harry Williams, Lewis Yost and Seline.   Bilal and I travelled up from Melbourne together,...

Andres Vesga (@andresvesga) joins us on the Passive Hang! Andres leads the @hkmovementpractice group. He is an Ido Mentorship student residing in Hong Kong. Andres is originally from Colombia, and shares his story of crossing continents, crossing physical cultures, and finding movement practice.  Trust the teacher, trust the process. The message which resonated with me the most from our chat - And...

David Tilston (@david.tilston) - joins us for Episode 46 of the Passive Hang! David is a movement practitioner and teacher from the south of the UK. David used to be a Royal Marine and has served in Afghanistan. He shares his journey from the early days of soccer, to joining the service and now - to movement training.  This was a wonderful chat which started off discovering what it was like to be...

Kenan Dinkelmann (@kenandinkelmann) joins us on the Passive Hang podcast! Kenan is a dancer, mover, performer and teacher who lives in Berlin, Germany. Lately Kenan has been sharing a lot more online recently - releasing two online courses around the concept of “Flow Acrobatics”.  We get into what this means - flow, and acrobatics, falling, connecting movements… and learning how to become soft and...

Daniel Murakami, @strongcamps on the Passive Hang! Daniel is one of the minds behind @movementquestofficial and is known for the feats of strength he shares. A lot of his posts get me to wonder about norms that lie present in the fitness culture. When you see him push over a tree, or pick up a barbell in an awkward angle - powerfully and safely - it gets you to question.  Daniel raises many intere...

“To get deeper in my practice, I had to let go of being a versatile all rounder… we don’t need all this strength… it’s nice to have, but we don’t need it." Nil Teisner (@nilteisner) on the Passive Hang podcast this week! Nil is a multidisciplinary teacher covering physical skills, body preparation, and reflective practices. Nil has been catching my eye recently due to his work around “finding flow...

Garrett Kuljian (@gmoneymvmt), aka Gmoney aka The Supple Dragon aka Troy from Movement Quest joins us on the Passive Hang! Garrett is a practitioner, teacher and physical therapist in San Diego, California.  Garrett is on the movement journey. I love seeing all the work he is putting into the practice day in, day out. This is a guy who is coming from nothing and becoming something - and it’s not c...

Joel Mullen (@move_or_be_moved) join us on the Passive Hang! Joel is the head strength coach at Movement Co, a massive facility in Perth, Australia. Joel describes himself simply as a personal trainer - but his experience and knowledge suggests a lot lot more. Joel is a straight talker, no BS here, and we start off with the challenges of navigating the modern day movement scene, before jumping int...

Farid Herrera (@farid_herrera) on the Passive Hang! Farid is a movement teacher in the UK, and an absolute ninja on the ‘gram. Farid’s own practice is broad and varied - incorporating all types of ground movement, parkour, soft acrobatics and more. There is a clinical type of precision present in his movement quality which is really attractive to the eye and what got me following his work initiall...

Mr Conor Wild (@mrconorwild) on the podcast ! Conor is a teacher, acrobat and circus performer from the UK, but currently resides in Tasmania, Australia.  In this episode we cover in depth an approach to creative sequencing - something really relevant to those practising floor work, locomotion, acrobatics. Conor has a really easy going way of explaining things clearly and practically - lots of gol...

Mega episode here! Flynn Disney (@flynndisney) jumps on the Passive Hang and shares his perspective on the practice of parkour. Flynn is a teacher of parkour and movement, with a strong focus on the somatic perspective. Flynn has an extraordinary ability to link parkour with established principles of neuroscience and emotion, whilst also proposing his own first principles approach to the practice....

Zack Finer (@z.finest.fridge) on the Passive Hang! Zack is Co-Owner and Teacher at Ape Co, a movement school in both Denver (@apeco_denver) and Boulder (@apeco_boulder), Colorado in the USA. I was super excited to get Zack on as he is a long time Ido Portal student and is now growing a thriving community - sharing movement in an exciting way. Zack kindly shares his experience with finding Ido, how...

Iesu Escalante (@iesu_escalante) joins the Passive Hang! Iesu is a teacher and performer, who resides in Paris and is currently working with the National Circus Centre over there. Iesu has trained in Chinese Martial arts from as long as he can remember, and has studied various other disciplines over the years. He is now devoted to teaching his work via “The Shifting Project”.  The first thing that...

Glenn Robson (@glennrobson_) back on the Passive Hang! Glenn joined us previously as part of the Aspen Coaching (@aspencoaching) crew back in Episode 24, and now jumps on for a solo episode. Glenn runs Aspen Coaching with his wife Emma (@emma_louise_robson) and Paul Twyman (@pault8_upsidedown). Glenn has previously trained with the Ido Portal Method and is currently studying with Fighting Monkey. ...