I invite a return to what feels primal, instinctual, and real.
My Movement and Capoeira offerings are a return to what feels primal, instinctual, and real. Cultivating strength, grace, and adaptability not through performance, but through presence.
Designed for those who value quality over quantity — and depth over distraction — offering a sustainable way of moving that deepens awareness and refines the body.
Have you ever given yourself the chance to move like this?
THE UNFOLDING
You may not be able to name it. But you’ve felt it.
That quiet friction inside your life like a rhythm just slightly off beat. A sense that something’s missing or misaligned.
It’s not pain. Not exactly. But it hums in your chest. A low ache. A tension between the life you’re living and the one you know, somewhere in your body, is possible.
That’s where my journey began. Not in a gym. Not on a stage. Not through sports or dance. It began with that same ache the kind that doesn’t go away just because you’ve done everything “right.”
I chased excellence. I built a career as a software developer, application engineer, and designer. I succeeded. On paper, it worked. But underneath it? Something was slipping.
The further I went, the more disconnected I felt from others, from the world, from myself. And then I experienced something. Like memory and a dream.
Capoeira found me. I followed. At first, I thought I was learning how to do beautiful acrobatic movements and floreiro. But slowly, I realized something else was happening:
I was learning how to listen. How to feel. How to be. Capoeira didn’t just show me how to move. It showed me how to live.
THE BECOMING
I had entered a lifelong practice.
It wasn’t just the movement, though the movement was alive.
It was the feeling. The way it asked for everything at once: rhythm, awareness, power, grace, timing, humility. The way it demanded presence.
It didn’t care who I was on paper. It asked who I was when things got real. When I missed the beat. When I got hit. When I couldn’t hide.
I trained obsessively not just because I wanted to get better, but because something in me was waking up. I wasn’t chasing aesthetics anymore. I was chasing truth.
In the roda, I was confronted not just by an opponent, but by myself. My fear. My hesitation. My fire. My grace. All of it, visible. All of it, useful.
And when life broke me open in other ways — through heartbreak, through grief — Capoeira was already there, showing me how to stay in rhythm, how to move with it, how to keep dancing, and fighting even when everything inside felt heavy.
So I went deeper.
Not just into movement. Into anatomy. Physiology. Martial arts. Gymnastics. Somatics and more.
Into ritual. Into psychology. Into silence. Into failure, repetition, uncertainty — the raw materials of transformation.
Over time, the focus in the movements stopped being about just the performance of the physical skill. The focus became about how they felt, the qualities. Textures of being.
I started to feel what it meant to glide. To float. To strike. To yield. To express strength without force, and elegance without weakness.
The practice began shaping not just my body but how I carried myself in the world. Capoeira gave me permission to be powerful and beautiful. To be exacting and expressive. To be a man — not in reaction to others, but in harmony with myself.
It became clear: These movements were mirrors. And they were teaching me how to live in alignment with what I found there.
THE EXPANSION
I started to notice the limits of what I knew. And instead of defending them, I got curious.
What else could movement be? What was I still blind to? Where was I under-trained in mind, in body, in presence?
I followed that curiosity.
Into adult gymnastics where I encountered precision, control, humility. I trained under the framework of Gymnastics Bodies by Coach Sommers at Awaken Gymnastics in Denver. No shortcuts. No applause. Just deep, patient work that rewired my nervous system. It wasn’t about tricks it was about quality. And quality changes everything.
I studied the work of Ido Portal first from a distance, and then directly. His lens was sharp. Unforgiving. His work and perspective invited me to question everything I thought I knew about strength, discipline, beauty, and practice. And I accepted that invitation — fully.
From there, my life paths began to merge.
Engineering. Design. Martial arts. Exercise science. Somatics. Psychology. Art.
Discipline met poetry. Science met ritual. And I met myself in a new way.
Not as someone trying to master a method. But as someone inadvertently creating one — through experience, through repetition, through reflection.
I began teaching at a higher level. I opened my own school/studio when I received the title of Professor in Capoeira. I joined Boulder Movement Collective (later Ape Co Movement School) and eventually became a lead teacher. Together, we nurtured a rigorous, communal space for training and transformation.
Through it all, I kept returning to the same question: How do we move in a way that reflects the life we want to live?
The answer wasn’t a single technique. It was a language. It was a practice. And eventually it became a way of offering something real to others.
Not as performance. Not as product. But as presence.
The Path Forward
If you’re still reading, you’ve probably felt it too. That quiet pull toward something deeper. Movement not as something to consume, but something to live. If you’re curious what this path has become and how it might meet your own, you can explore what I now offer.