Bamboo Moves

From a young age I was taught about the eastern arts of healing, kung-fu, meditation and physical training by my father who was a martial arts and yoga enthusiast. When my brother and I misbehaved as kids he used to punish us with pushups and headstands. As a child and a teenager I also studied Dance, Wah-Lum Kung Fu, and Street-Fighting Kempo-Karate. In college at New York University I graduated with a degree in Religious Studies and Psychology and was always intrigued by the ancient wisdoms of the East and how they could be brought together with the contemporary understandings of the Western world. Over the last 6 years I trained in various forms of Yoga and Taoist Energy Training and Healing Techniques, living with a Taoist master for 3 years as well as training with the Masters at Mt. Moak in Korea. Most recently I was the manager and Educational Director of the three Tao Yoga Centers in Manhattan. I like to treat the human body as an ongoing experiment in which my main goal is to facilitate the greatest possible feelings of health, well-being, and inner peace; and in doing so I always found myself hampered down by individual schools of yoga, seeking always to create my own ways of movement without conforming to one particular school. And so for the last three years I've been creating new exercises and forms using elements of dance, Hatha yoga, Taoist energy training, sword forms, kung-fu, and isometric exercise to create what I now call "Bamboomoves."