Physical Creative Coach

The Art of Play

Explore elements of human movement as tools for creative expression & performance. Improv & creative problem solving will be explored deeply.

We use physical practices that are simple, enjoyable and repeatable. We design play-based activities that encourage physical freedom, creativity and vitality. And because we are artist, creative movers, we are not bound by any one discipline or way. 

We use, we steal and repurpose ideas, tools and resources from the old ways. We cultivate a way that is adaptive and alive to create a beautifully moving, adaptable and creative human being.

And if you’re a coach, trainer or teacher I got you covered.

Our Art of Play Workshops are directed towards fitness & performance professionals that want to learn how to incorporate Physical Creativity, Play and Exploration into their very own teaching, training or coaching practice. This includes personal trainers, group fitness instructors, physical education teachers, coaches, yoga instructors, MMA trainers, and even physical therapists.

Please join me at Nourishing Storm Studios on February 25th from 1-3 to discover The Art of Play.

You can register here: The Art of Play


The Art & Practice Qigong.

Qigong is the art & practice of crafting and shaping Life Energy with Patience, Steadiness & Skill.

This ancient practice and art harmonizes your body’s energy centers, promoting balance, vitality, and a deep sense of well-being.

Through movement you can nourish and strengthen your body. Imagine moving with your own life force, finding harmony in every movement. It’s not just exercise - it’s a journey inward, a celebration of your body’s intelligence.

Every week I get to spend 3-5 hours working with some very special students on The Art and Practice of Qigong. I’ll be offering some online classes soon.

If you’d like to join in please send me a message and I’ll keep you posted:

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Creative Movement Live

My signature workshop: Creative Movement Live is an intensive training, a meeting between an artist and their body. It’s a workshop that gives you permission to be yourself fully.

Not in a way that is meant for other people or for their approval or pleasure, but your own. This workshop is about you and your creativity and physicality.

It is a workshop that ask for a lot and in return gives back just as much.

On this creative path is trust, and I’ve been blessed to help facilitate a curious, playful exploration of possibilities.

Thank you to everyone who has taken my Creative Movement Live , shown up fully, and trusted me to help guide and shape your relationship with movement, play and physical expression.

It’s your journey, your pilgrimage, but I’m so honored to have been there for you. Thank you.

The Art of Walking

The word "Art" and our words articulate and articulation share the same roots and mean to bring or join together. Very similar to the word "Yoga" actually which is related the word yoke.

In this video I speak about a walking club that I started at the local YMCA where 50 people registered.

The main reason why people registered was "connection" and community and meeting new people. Literally making the act of walking an artistic expression. The Art of Walking is a topic I'd like to spend much more time and energy on.

Thanks for being here.

I Am Trying

I am trying to learn how, when leading a workshop, to speak from the creative in me to the creative in each one of the people present. I do not mean by this anything to do with good creative or bad, better creative or best.

I find such distinctions meaningless and unhelpful.

My own experience is demonstrating that there is a creative voice in each one of us and that is not helped by any comparison except with our own deepening growth. In each of us there is our pinch pot, as there is our dance, our poem, and our song. What it looks like or sounds like is less important than the artistic journey we take to discover it.

I greet the creative in you from the creative in me.

Who is the Best Dancer?

This is what I’m talking about!

I’ve been diving deep into the works of M.C. Richards and Paulus Berensohn.

I quoted M.C. Richards on this blog before here: Life is Physical & Artistic.

What I absolutely love about both of of these artists, potters and poets actually are their other physical pursuits like dance.

There is a deep connection between the physical, mixed moving arts and other creative arts. This is clear. And if we are to approach wholeness and a deeper life we must remain and cultivate a well-rounded approach to movement and self-expression.

Specialist may get paid more but to quote Paulus.

““It’s not a way of making a living. It’s a way of making a life.”
— Paulus Berensohn

The above video is a reading from a book by Corita Kent called “Learning by Heart.”


Great Creative Minds and Moving Artists.

I'm a sucker for imagery. I’m also a sucker for discussions on craft, art, nature and human performance so I thought I’d share a few cool quotes with you.

These two quotes come from two different authors and books but they share a similar spirit. The first book is from "The Little Book of Talent." by Daniel Coyle.

The second book is "Deep Work" by Cal Newport.



Escaping the Shallows

“My purpose is to re-instill passion and romance into our connection with movement and play, to make movement and ability our primary aim, over appearance and ego, and to let joy, pleasure and excitement be our main motivations and inspirations.”
— Jason C. Brown

My work and this site is undergoing a bit of a rebrand. After spending 22 years in the fitness and performance fields I simply need to branch out. To curate, to teach and to share content, clarity and coaching on topics that I honestly consider much more important than exercise, sets and reps. The art of expressing the human body, the craft of teaching human movement and the profound effect that a physical practice can have on our creativity and quality of life will take center stage.

Perhaps my new direction began as an unconscious reaction to the surge of a more surface kind of physicality and creativity that I started to notice and live within.

A rebellion of sorts against the rushed demands that were creeping into my own physical practice. Once I became consciously aware of the tolls these shallows could take, I longed to enter into a deeper conversation and exploration about the wellspring of physicality and creativity. I began to identify in my own physical practice (as well as those of my students), certain eternal elements to access and enthuse. These elements will serve as our foundation to building a creative physical practice and enjoy it forever.

These 4 elements are:

  • Deep Play

  • Deep Practice

  • Deep Nature

  • Deep Rest.

I hope you’ll join me on this journey, in this new direction. And as your guide, I’m excited to start sharing. Thanks for being here with me.

Power and Accuracy Day in The Strength Garden

In this video I share one of my favorite workouts from my humble Strength Garden. To be completely honest, most of my physical practice is spent playing and moving in other ways like hiking and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu but I always enjoy a quick and focused training session.

This particular session consist of an explosive extension exercise (kettlebell or CMB Snatch) super-setted with an explosive flexion exercise, a single-arm slam using a dead-ball that I borrowed from the Baseball world.

I usually match the repetitions per move…5 slams for 5 snatches. And I usually perform 5 sets. I do not work for time and rest as needed since my focus is speed and power.

I add the accuracy by slamming onto stone pavers. It seems a little silly and the dead-balls do not bounce well, but if I’m not on point and accurate with my slam they will bounce off in chaotic directions. Which can be fun as well.