Around twenty years ago, I discovered a game changing, relating ability, during my martial art and dance practices. I realized that I was ALWAYS CONNECTED to my partners, — even when were several yards apart! This proved to be my "Holy Grail" which I'd sought for over two decades through Martial Arts, dance, the Feldenkrais Method of Movement and Awareness, Pilates, Bodywork, Somatics, and Contact Improvisation. 

In my boxing practice I became very hard to hit, and in Tai Chi Push Hands, it became very difficult for others to land much pressure on my body. A visiting teacher from Beijing remarked [in frustration], "James's listening is so good that I can't do anything to him!" Contact Improvisation Dance and my Bodywork practice also benefitted.  

Sometime after this, during my boxing practice, I discovered that I’d gained an effortless punching power which I needed to tone down! What finally brought this power to me was my four-year long Feldenkrais Practitioner training. Spending hundreds of hours on the floor doing slow, relaxed, Awareness through Movement lessons, profoundly integrated my body and nervous system. An added benefit was that sensing myself far more clearly enabled me to sense other people far more effectively.

Embodied Physical Relating was born!

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To reflect the path that led to my own breakthroughs,

I offer two separate classes;

one in Martial Arts: “Embodied Physical Relating”,

and the other in Feldenkrais Movement Improvement: “Embodied Movement”.

They’re very complementary, so if you can only take one class, you’ll still be exposed to elements of the other.

My Embodied Movement [“Feel Great without Working Hard”] class, aims to perfect your own self-use.

Embodied Physical Relating works to perfect both your self-sensing and responsiveness to others in martial arts and other relational movement activities.