Down the Rabbit Hole

Send us Fan Mail I’m back from a short hiatus with a field report from the Emergence Movement Conference, where debates replace slides and coaches actually talk face to face. I lay out why the real argument underneath ecological dynamics is capacity versus transfer, and why the athlete’s individual bottlenecks decide what works.  • why the Emergence conference format creates better conversations t...

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever watched an athlete dominate in games while looking average in the weight room, Paul Gagné has an explanation that cuts deeper than “talent.” We’re talking about posturology: how the brain uses vision, the vestibular system, and foot pressure to place your centre of mass before you ever push into the ground. When that system is organised, speed and skill feel effortl...

Send us Fan Mail What if movement was your first language? We sit down with Jesse Danger—coach, builder, and founder of The Movement Creative—to explore how parkour can turn a city into a classroom and frustration into the felt sense of learning. From a rough ride through school to discovering parkour as a pathway to agency, Jesse shares the frameworks and stories that helped him build one of New...

Send us Fan Mail We explore how left-right brain asymmetry explains autism, ADHD types, dyslexia, immune quirks, and gut issues, and how movement, sensory training, and targeted nutrition create real change. Dr. Ty Melillo shares his path from test subject to clinician, with nuanced takes on meds, EQ, and environment. • mapping autism and dyslexia to hemispheric dominance • task avoidance as fear-...

Send us Fan Mail What if your athletes actually got better at the game instead of just better at drills? That’s the question we chase with Coach Javi Miller Estrada—co‑founder of Ignite Performance, team member at Emergence, and host of the Adaptable Athlete Podcast. We unpack how ecological dynamics and a constraints‑led approach help athletes perceive what matters, set clear intentions, and disc...

Send us Fan Mail Two coaches at the sharp end of elite sport pull back the curtain on how speed really gets built. We sit down with Olympic sprint and jumps coach Randy Huntington and Exogen’s Joseph DeSetti to unpack the methods, measurements, and micro-loads that turn good movers into great performers—safely. Randy walks us through his global journey: rebuilding Chinese track and field with timi...

Send us Fan Mail What if posture isn’t about “standing up straight,” but about how your brain reads the world through your feet and eyes? We sit down with Dr. Bernard Bricot—orthopedic surgeon and pioneer of posturology—to rethink back pain, performance, and the myths that keep people stuck. Instead of chasing symptoms or relying on phasic muscles to fix a tonic job, we examine posture as a sensor...

Send us Fan Mail What if the fastest path to better performance isn’t more sets and reps, but becoming more human first? We close out the year by unpacking the ideas that changed our training and our lives: primitive reflexes that still shape adult movement, posture as a whole-body strategy, and the feet as powerful sensory hubs that influence pain, speed, and power. It’s a candid look at what wor...

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever been told your squat is “wrong,” this conversation will change how you think about movement, pain, and coaching. We sit down with author and Feldenkrais practitioner Todd Hargrove to connect three big ideas: how humans evolved to move, how babies develop skill without coaching, and how pain reshapes the brain’s map of the body. The result is a refreshing framework f...

Send us Fan Mail What if our modern discomfort, anxiety, and health challenges stem from lack of connection and forgetting what it means to move like a human? In this fascinating conversation, movement pioneer Rafe Kelly reveals how our disconnection from natural movement has profound consequences on our development. Rafe explains how our brains evolved primarily to control movement, not just abst...

Send us Fan Mail Fitness doesn't have to mean treadmills and weight machines. What if it meant solving movement problems instead? Shelby Copeland takes us on a journey that challenges everything we thought we knew about exercise. As the founder of Force of Nature Movement in Madison, Wisconsin, she's pioneering an approach to physical activity that focuses on skill acquisition rather tha...

Send us Fan Mail Step into the unseen athletic world of NASCAR with Chad Emmons, strength and conditioning coach for Haas Factory Team. In this eye-opening conversation, Chad reveals how his journey from college football led him to the high-stakes world of racing—a sport he once dismissed as "just turning left." NASCAR's physical demands will surprise even seasoned sports fans. Pit...

Send us Fan Mail Anna Bezuglova, founder of Bamboo Body in Barcelona, shares her transformative journey studying under Ido Portal for 11 years and explains how movement practice addresses the whole person beyond just physical fitness. She articulates a profound philosophy where movement serves as the foundation for developing cognitive, emotional, and physical capacities simultaneously. • Movement...

Send us Fan Mail Robert Gourlay, water expert and innovator of MEA water devices, explains how structured water with negative charge is fundamental to cellular health and optimal bodily function. He reveals that drinking structured water is the fastest way to supply our cells with the negative electrical charge they need to function at their fullest potential. • Water holds energy and information,...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever wondered why some pain persists despite countless treatments? The answer might lie deeper than muscles and joints, hiding in your nervous system's reflexes. John Iams, the brilliant mind behind Primal Reflex Release Technique (PRRT), joins us alongside his son Erick to share how this revolutionary approach has transformed pain treatment. Trained as a physical th...

Send us Fan Mail Ever wondered why some injuries seem to linger or why athletes frequently re-injure the same area? The answer might surprise you—and it's not always where the pain is. Reconditioning injured athletes requires looking beyond the obvious. When working with athletes recovering from injury, I start with a crucial conversation to understand whether we're dealing with an acute...

Send us Fan Mail Dive into the revolutionary world of jiu-jitsu coaching with Greg Souders, owner of Standard Jiu-Jitsu in Rockville, Maryland, as he challenges traditional teaching paradigms and demonstrates how using the Constraints Led Approach transforms martial arts training. Greg has made a name for himself through his athletes' impressive results and his distinctive methodology.  While...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we are excited to welcome back Dr. Robert Melillo, the world's foremost expert on neurological development. It's been five years since our previous discussion with Dr. Melillo, so we'll be exploring the new and innovative projects he has taken on. Our conversation will cover brain development, the ways our posture mirrors this growth, and how retain...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, we have podiatrist Andy Bryant. Andy focuses on the natural function of the feet, exploring how they are biologically and evolutionarily designed to move. Andy is also a professional educator for The Foot Collective, a global community of experts committed to addressing the root causes of dysfunction and restoring foot health.  In this episode, we explore...

Send us Fan Mail Mat is a wealth of knowledge. In this episode, we welcome back Mat Boule, founder of the IP Institute and Posturology Instructor at CIES. In our discussion, we explore the complex neuroscience of brain development, looking at various brain regions and their functions, including the neuroscience of posture and our feet.   Mat is a vast source of knowledge. To learn more from Mat, c...

Send us Fan Mail "If you don't know history, it's as if you were born yesterday. If you were born yesterday, then any leader can tell you anything." - Howard Zinn. “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” - Winston Churchill. “The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.” - Maya Angelou. In this episode, we look back thro...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is with Skill Acquisition Coach Tyler Yearby.  Tyler is the co-founder of Emergence: A Movement Skill Education Company .   Tyler has worked with athletes at all levels and most recently just received his PhD in Sport & Exercise. In this episode, we go through what a Skill Acquisition coach is. What is Ecological Dynamics, and how is it different from the...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, we have Meredith Oak. Meredith is the Executive Director of the Institute of Applied Quantum Biology and hosts the Quantum Biology podcast. Meredith is a wealth of knowledge in quantum health, and in this episode, we discussed how modern medicine is missing a significant peace in the health and wellness puzzle. What is good and bad light. The misconception...

Send us Fan Mail We have a great episode with movement practitioner and teacher Karin Bensabat.  In this episode, we discuss her background in practicing and studying movement, and how she first met and had the opportunity to work with Ido Portal.  And how she opened her practice and works with people of all ages, shapes, and experiences to help them move better.  Karin is a wealth of knowledge in...

Send us Fan Mail Hamstring injuries are the most common type of injury at all levels of sports performance.   Today's podcast snack concerns the prevalence of hamstring injuries in sports, from their occurrence to rehabilitation and prevention.   As well as what I feel is being missed in all of this. I  share a case study of 9 coaches who, in 61 years of coaching cumulatively, hardly have any...