Behind the Movement

Meri Burgess is a circus artist, dancer, software developer, and general art-and-movement enthusiast based in the front range of Colorado. She specializes in pole dance and cyr wheel, but has also frequently performed aerial, contortion, stilt walking, and roller skating. Meri is known for her experimental conceptual pole performances, working with unique invented apparatuses such as the "tree pol...

Aaron, 43, male. Son of Philip and Anne Cantor. Brother of Gabriel. Father of Bodhi and Jasper. Grew up in Japan and Brazil. Traveled the world pursuing enlightenment and self mastery. Yoga, meditation, martial arts, breathwork, bodywork, biohacking, dance, athletics...Got really good at somethings. Was really successful teaching somethings and that  evolved over 20 years  into a  b...

Marie Janicek is a Movement Teacher and Guide, here to help others discover how movement shapes not just our physical bodies, but our mental, emotional, and spiritual selves as well. Through her experience as a professional dancer, personal trainer, and health coach, she discovered that bringing attention to the emotions, sensations, and energies we feel within ourselves in relationship to our bod...

As a child Brendan was drawn to martial arts and began training in TaeKwonDo in 1988 when he was just 5 years old, 3 years later he began wrestling too. Brendan competed in TaeKwonDo from 1988-1994 where he competed and placed multiple times on a national level and wrestled competitively from 1990-2002. In college Brendan discovered Kickboxing and began competing in local fights in Massachetts whi...

Aaron, 43, male. Son of Philip and Anne Cantor. Brother of Gabriel. Father of Bodhi and Jasper. Grew up in Japan and Brazil. Traveled the world pursuing enlightenment and self mastery. Yoga, meditation, martial arts, breathwork, bodywork, biohacking, dance, athletics...Got really good at somethings. Was really successful teaching somethings and that  evolved over 20 years  into a  b...

Josh Hash is the creator of Strength Side. With over 800k subscribers on YouTube, Strength Side helps people gain freedom in their body and mind through movement. Strength Side’s mission is to inspire more mindful movement in order to cultivate meaning and a higher quality life. Josh enjoys a life of travel, soaking up sunshine like a lizard, and always has a book nearby.

Born and raised in New Zealand. Lives now in Norway. Currently associate professor of education and social sciences at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Coaching and training background in a number of sports in different parts of the world. Founder of the Emptiness Project, a research and experience group using tools of awareness to explore the human mind and body.

Brittany is a coach and Kettlebell Partner Passing Instructor. After being a personal trainer for 8 years, a competitive kettlebell athlete for 6 years, and a lifelong high achiever, she experienced burnout and realized that she was unfulfilled. Brittany quit social media, took a step back from work and working out, and embarked on a new path in search of meaning. So far, it's led her to discover...

Trevor’s mission is to help others understand and experience their body and life in ways Western Culture falls short.  He identified as an athlete from a young age, and feels the culture surrounding team sports lead to a poor relationship with his own body and movement, seeing it always as a means to an end.  Through various forms of sport, dance, martial arts, calisthenics, and adventur...

Nicolette is somatic movement practitioner, who has worked for the last decade studying the life of the body through its bio energetic process. She is student of jiu jitsu, herbalist and trainee of the Feldenkrais Method. Having this diverse and rich background has helped her harness the skill of body reading. In her somatic sessions she links the relationship and interplay of the physical body, e...

Virgil is a former Elite and Olympic athlete from The Netherlands with over 30 years in track and field. After various international bouts as a decathlete, hurdler and sprinter he kept running into the same problem over and over again. Even though he should have been extremely fit and ready for everything he wasn't. He could lift heavy weights, sprint fast, jump high and have all types of high lev...

Marcello is known for his studies of movement in a relationship with the environment. His interest and investigations of different artistic and scientific dimensions brought him far and wide. Notably, he helped shape the face of Parkour in Europe, got his Master of Science degree in strength and conditioning at St. Mary university in London, and was part of Ido Portal’s team for three years. &nbsp...

Luke graduated from the Welsh Institute of Chiropractic (WIOC) in 2015 and started an innovative rehabilitation and healthcare company called Back to Roots (B2R) in 2016. Frustrated by the Chiropractic professions traditional model of care Luke teamed up with Paul McCambridge to create a company that marries up ‘evidence based practice’ and holistic healthcare in a person centred way, greatly insp...

Agathe is a movement teacher based in Paris. After sustaining twelve fractures in a life-changing accident in 2015, she entered a five-year rehabilitation process that led her to experience and explore movement "from scratch". She went from teaching traditional ashtanga yoga pre-accident, to exploring a wide range of movement practices, with the central goal and obsession of recovering a...

Jozef Frucek has been studying under the guidance of Master Ming Wong C.Y., also a doctor of Chinese Medicine, the internal principles of movement and their relation to health and aging. Jozef got his ArtD degree on Voice and Movement in 2002 under the supervision of Ludmila Machatsova, who is considered as one of the most influential communication trainers. Jozef Frucek and Linda Kapetanea&n...

Chip Conrad digs movement, music, and mutts, Along with being a perpetual student of a dizzying array of strength and flux outlets, he has a hankering for physical culture history, having studied with Jan and Terry Todd, Mel Siff, and Tommy Kono, among many others. He's competed and coached nationally and internationally in multiple strength sports, but won't let any of that get in the way of a go...

Charlie Roth is a Movement Teacher, based in Barcelona. Growing up he was involved in various sports, table tennis being his main passion. Later on, when studying sports science he became interested in approaching his physical training from a more holistic point of view and came across the work of Ido Portal. At first being mostly self-taught he then went to learn from various teachers such as Jos...

Frank Forencich is an internationally recognized leader in health and performance education. He earned his BA at Stanford University in human biology and neuroscience and has over thirty years of teaching experience in martial art and health education. Frank holds black belt rankings in karate and aikido and has traveled to Africa on several occasions to study human origins and the ancestral envir...

Phaon is the host of The Passive Hang podcast, a platform for featuring practitioners and teachers in the modern day movement community. His wish is to contribute to the growth of this community, bring people together and help others in their journey. He is also a father, husband, and has a non-movement full-time job he quite enjoys!

Alain Couturier is the founder and teacher of Movement Practice Paris (MPP) since 2019. MPP is an ever-evolving, dynamic, and all-level movement group that focuses on aligning one's physical strength with their surroundings, as well as others. Alain's inspiration was born out of his love to move, and the recognition that there was a need for a new way in Paris. His work fosters collaborative movem...

Leah Woods grew up studying West African Guinean, Flamenco, and Middle Eastern dance and continued on to study Ballet and Modern dance in College. She spent 11 years in the Bay Area studying Contemporary and Ballet intensively alongside the many global forms that thrive in that region. She enjoyed an extensive performance career dancing for Loose Change; an Urban Contemporary Dance Company, NAVA C...

Angie is a strength and mobility coach based in Vienna,  Austria. Her coaching is a skill-based focused for those who want to unlock specific skills in yoga, martial arts and in the training room. Her movement journey started from stillness to movement being meditation her first practice. She was influenced and inspired by Ido Portal’s method. Explored with different movement teachers, t...

Max Hammer is a professional skier, mountain guide, and former member of the United States Ski Team. He was raised by the ski slopes of Jackson Hole, Wyoming and honed his skills on mountains around the world before finding a home in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The library of information found on his website (skimoregood.com) is born out of a personal desire to understand the art of skiing. The c...

Kenan Dinkelmann grew up in Passau, Germany and graduated from Artez, School of Dance, Arnhem with a BA of performing arts and completed the SEAD postgraduate program Bodhi Project directed by Susan Quinn where he toured works by Jozef Frucek & Linda Kapetanea, Martin Nachbar and Robert Clark in Europe. As freelance dancer Kenan worked with Johannes Wieland, Marion Sparber, Ivan Perez, Unterwe...

Andre holds a degree in sports science & physical education.  He spent the majority of his life practicing martial arts having competed in both forms, point sparring & full contact divisions internationally. At the same time, he skateboarded, injuring himself doing it, so decided to learn how to surf and initiated a parkour practice. Parkour opened his eyes for a broader, more holisti...