My physical journey started with a wide range of sports, but after testing the waters, I landed on football, track, and competitive snowboarding as my main focus throughout middle and high school. Through those experiences, I learned my way around a weight room from both a strength development and hypertrophy standpoint, while also training through the very specific lens of becoming a professional snowboarder.

I started snow sports at two years old and eventually joined Team Summit, where I competed in boardercross and slope style in the most competitive division in the country for two years. Unfortunately, a series of injuries forced me away from competition. While difficult at the time, those injuries became a major stepping stone in developing my current understanding of the human body, a thread that runs through everything I do today.

I discovered Ape Co in 2019 and began attending classes regularly. Over time, my teacher, Liav Baron, took me under her wing and taught me how to teach and how to become a leader. Through that mentorship, I learned a diverse repertoire of dynamic ground movements, linear strength and mobility exercises, handbalancing techniques, partner games, and somatic tools.

In 2021, I began teaching and personal training. Since then, I've continued honing my craft as both a mover and a teacher, constantly refining how I communicate, cue, and support people in their own process.

Through this practice I went from being a skinny white boy to having the body I wanted and accomplishing the goals I gave myself. I have also helped hundreds of students get stronger, more mobile, and become more aware in their body — first chin-ups, muscle-ups, handstand push-ups, 60-second freestanding handstands, and lifetime PRs in their deadlift, back squat, and other weightlifting exercises.

This combination of experiences has led me to what I'd call my source of fulfillment. I want to empower people to live capable lives, unhindered by the limitations that plague them. A life where the basics are covered: getting up and down off the floor, playing with the kids, climbing stairs and being able to get back down, all in our later years. But that's not where I want to stop.

I'm tired of seeing people give up on dreams simply because they get older. One client came to me at 78 with a rare vestibular condition. Vertigo and dizziness so persistent that he no longer felt safe walking. We started where we had to: strength and mobility work to rebuild what years of limited movement had taken from him, direct work on his balance, and nutrition support to give his body what it needed to actually recover. But the most transformative part wasn't physical. It was navigating the fear he'd developed and the trust in his own body he'd lost over years of living with the condition. That kind of change doesn't happen by treating the body as separate parts, a stronger leg here, a balance drill there. It happens when strength, mobility, nutrition, and a regulated nervous system are all working in sync. Three years later, at 81, he's back squatting and deadlifting with a barbell, and trail running again, without dizziness.

I've seen this same pattern show up in less dramatic ways, too. A client dealing with IBS came to me expecting help with her diet. We worked through a Low FODMAP approach for her gut, but her sleep had also been suffering for years, and Feldenkrais work ended up doing as much for her insomnia as the dietary changes did for her digestion. Two problems that looked unrelated, solved by the same underlying attention.

That's harmony, and it's the whole reason I don't work in silos. The plateau someone hits, the pain that won't resolve, the dream someone quietly gives up on, it's rarely just one thing. It's the whole system asking for attention.

I have a deep passion for helping people heal, grow, and do the things they didn't think were still possible for them. If any part of this resonates with you, I'd love to support you in whatever way I can.