The Passive Hang

Julian Disterhoft of Movement Bielefeld (@movementbielefeld) is on the Passive Hang podcast! Julian runs a movement school in Bielefeld, Germany, teaching a generalised practice on many different subjects and aspects of movement. He’s learnt from many of the very best in the field, travelling the world over to seek, practice and research. A few months back, Julian came to Australia for Juan Rueda’...

Benjamin Byfield @meditativemonkey is on the Passive Hang! Ben is a dear friend of mine, who runs the Meditative Monkey, a Movement Studio based in Central Coast, Australia. You may recognise him from some of the Passive Hang video logs and previous episode #48 - he is a regular accomplice to movement workshops, and we’ve spent many nights discussing movement and beyond. Ben is considerate, though...

Simon Thakur, founder of Ancestral Movement (@ancestralmovement, www.ancestralmovement.com ) is on the Passive Hang! Ancestral Movement is Simon’s life work, practices and studies of human development through the lens of evolutionary biology, anthropology, comparative anatomy, neuroscience and whatever Simon has digested. And Simon has digested a lot! Originally from New Zealand, Simon has spent t...

Craig Mallett (@craigmallettdx) features on the Passive Hang podcast! Craig is a teacher based in the Sunshine Coast, Australia. He was originally part of a Canberra community featuring Simon Thakur and Kit Laughlin, associated with past podcast guest Emmet Louis. He is now a teacher and practitioner of the Da Xuan Daoist tradition. Da Xuan - “The Big Mystery”. It’s in the name - what is all these...

David Wilson (@oldscoolmoves) is on the Passive Hang! David is a movement coach, anti-ageism advocate and educator, based in Toronto, Canada. David teaches at @spiritloft and online. David’s challenges our societal narratives around age-ing and what it means to become old. David used to be an English teacher, before committing himself to physical practice. Letting go of a sedentary lifestyle, Davi...

@stanslavkaza, founder of @movementfreaks is on the Passive Hang! Stanislav is a movement teacher based in Herzeliya, Israel. Stanislav shares his story from wrestling during adolescence, to being exposed to hand balancing from Odelia Goldschmidt, and surprisingly - reluctantly adopting a broader practice, starting first with locomotion and then other subjects via the Ido Portal method. Stanislav...

@tasha.louie is on the Passive Hang! Tasha is a personal trainer teaching in the San Francisco Bay Area and also an online coach. She is an incredible practitioner who explores creativity within strength work. Tasha’s ability to exert strength in all sorts of ranges shows the potential of what you can achieve. Tasha just recently went through a traumatic fracture of her spine. She chose a movement...

Ron Dobrovinsky @rondobrovinsky, founder of @swingitisrael is on the Passive Hang! Ron is a dancer, teacher and personal trainer based in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is an amazing performer, who shares a lot of his own personal process in developing capacities he desires for dancing. I highly recommend you check out his Instagram page. What is a dancer’s take on physical development? Ron doesn’t take the...

Erdi Babili, @learningtohuman joins us on the Passive Hang to talk about his journey from personal trainer, gym owner, to online coach for bodyweight strength, flexibility and hand balancing. Erdi shares wonderful insights on his page, I highly recommend you check it out - with a lot of nuance on the details which matter. I love Erdi’s story because he has achieved everything with a lot of hard, s...

Juan Rueda (@huan_lueda) shares a wonderful conversation on the Passive Hang podcast! Juan is a movement teacher in Melbourne, Australia, and is a former Ido Portal mentorship student.  I recently connected with Juan in person and attended a few of his movement classes. All of them have been a mind-boggling experience of opening new doors and sneak peeks of how many more layers the movement practi...

Jason Lapiana (@jason.lapiana) from Clearwater, Florida is on the Passive Hang! Jason is a movement teacher who is the director of coaching at @move_training_calisthenics. Jason is an absolute weapon who is starting to share more of his insights online and is worth checking out.  Jason used to be on the pursuit for professional baseball, before the pressure of competition and specialisation starte...

Daniel Zivatovic, Physical Empowerment (@denchija) is on the Passive Hang! Daniel teaches online and in London, as one of the teachers of @londonmovementgroup.  I was super happy to connect with Daniel as we have been chatting online back and forth for a while now, and it was a pleasure to create the connection in conversation. Daniel shares amazing content via Instagram and YouTube on movement ed...

Lewis Yost (@lewisyost_) aka Lewdog aka Stan number ?? comes onto the Passive Hang!  Lewis is a movement and hand balancing coach, practitioner residing in Perth, Australia, teaching out of Movement Co. I’ve connected and learnt from Lewis from the past 2 Gains at the Ghetto Workshops. Not only possessing unbelievable personal movement talent, Lewis is also defining a sharp edge to his coaching as...

Bren Veziroglu (@brenveziroglu) is on the Passive Hang! Bren is a movement teacher based in San Jose, California. He runs an amazing YouTube channel with in-depth pieces on Movement Practice and strategies for learning movement.  Bren has built himself from the ground up - being a kid who wasn’t physically gifted, but blessed with an ability to dedicate himself completely to what interests him. Fi...

Elia Bartolini (@elia_bodyweight), the Flexibility Guy - comes onto the Passive Hang! Elia is a flexibility and handstand coach living in Rome, Italy. I love Elia since he shares not only in-depth and tips for real flexibility development, but also loves taking th e piss of the culture of french fries fast information.  We go deep on the middle splits in this episode, as Elia has… a great middle s...

Sondre Berg (@sondre_berg) - the sensation from Norway is on the Passive Hang! Sondre is a coach living in Norway. Sondre amazes me with all the physical prowess he displays - explosive, skilful, mobile, taking on skills I haven’t seen before such as the one arm handstand pushup. It was a pleasure to find out that he also has the training wisdom and ability to teach that wisdom.  So how does Sondr...

Jon Yuen (@yuenjon) is on the Passive Hang! Awesome to connect with Jon as I’ve been a long time fan (like many others!). Jon is a movement teacher based in Norway. He also likes cats, very much. Jon shares his time growing up in Norway coming from mixed heritage, and the influences that have shaped his training history. For someone so accomplished in movement - what drives him? What were the turn...

Micha Schulz (@micha_bln_), founder of @kingofweighted shares his story and training insights on the Passive Hang! Micha is a coach who specialises in calisthenics skills and weighted calisthenics.  He is based in Berlin, Germany. Micha’s content is always full of nuance and consideration, with a strong understanding of biomechanics. This makes sense as you hear that Micha has a degree in engineer...

Rodrigo Salulima (@rodrigosalulima), founder of Pratique Movimento (@pratiquemovimento) on the Passive Hang! Pratique Movimento is a flourishing movement school based in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil.    In this wonderful conversation we hear how Rodrigo built the community of Pratique Movimento, sharing his learnings and his approach to growing the school. How did it start? How did it grow? Wha...

The legendary @josephbartz is on the Passive Hang!  Joseph is a teacher who guides others on the question of “What does it mean to live a good life in modernity?”. He is based on the outskirts of Berlin, Germany. He teaches the physical practice as building foundations for taking responsibility for your own physical health and capacity, to give you potential for action.  I approached Joseph after...

@rodjcooper, owner of @the_movement_collective comes on the Passive Hang! The Movement Collective is a movement gym in Newcastle, Australia. I’ve known Rod for a couple of years now, and the best way to describe him is that whenever you speak with Rod, you feel lifted, elevated, inspired.  Rod shares his practice - what does it actually look like, now? Having learnt from many different teachers, a...

Slava Goloubov (@slavagoloubov) on the Passive Hang! Slava is the founder of @movement.flow - a system which connects contemporary dance, acrobatics, capoeira and yoga into a combination of floor based movements and transitions.  Slava was born in Russia, then immigrated to Canada, where he was in construction at a young age until he found a path to channeling his energy via movement. Initially it...

@karin.avi, Karin Bensabat comes on for the latest episode of the Passive Hang! Karin is the founder of @motion.haifa, a movement school based in Haifa, Israel. When you jump on the @motion.haifa page you will see a large and engaged community doing all sorts of wonderful and interesting training. So who is Karin and what’s her story? Karin shares how she grew up, became interested in Capoeira dur...

Eduardo Orihuela (@eduardo_orihuela_) jumping on the Passive Hang! Eduardo is a coach based in Chicago, affiliated with the awesome GMB crew (@gmbfitness) and is an avid sharer of bodyweight training methods online.  The thing about Eduardo is authenticity. In all his clips he invites you into his home; sharing his training journey and challenges with maintaining a practice whilst becoming a fathe...

Alex Sesto (@sestoflow) jumps on the Passive Hang! Alex is a teacher from London, UK. Alex is coaches individuals and also runs a number of projects including the @flowstate.collective and The Human Experience.    When you go on Alex’s page you might think he is about movement, but quickly I find that he is about wellbeing and transformation; a model he calls Full Spectrum Health. He defines it as...