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Derek believes that true wellness is about habilitation and getting ahead of your physical health. To do so, he helps unlock your full potential on the path toward movement freedom.
As a young athlete, turned professional Dancer and Performer, Derek understands the complex relationships that we can have with our bodies. Derek's comprehensive approach to wellness includes personalized load training, programing and consulting, nutritional and breath work guidance, optimizes fascial mechanics resulting in your most athletic self. Whether looking to prevent surgery, rehabilitate, increase sport performance are pregnant or postpartum or simply expecting to maintain physical strength and independence, he is your movement expert there to provide the motivation and knowledge to take your movement healing journey as far as you'd like.
Derek performed and toured nationally and internationally with Pilobolus Dance Theater and the National Theater before living in NYC full time while developing his movement business. Training mostly in the private space, he worked with clients looking to maximize the personal in their personal training. With a list of high profile and determined clients he exposed them to Fascial Science and the Biomechanics of Movement becoming the trainer to go to manage complex pain and injury, and optimize total healing. He shares a passion for all that is Sport and after becoming a recent Father of three, has an even more unique experience in energy depletion and comeback to guide you through yours.
Biomechanics are traditionally left to the movement of joints by the pulley system of muscles, tendons and ligaments. Until Fascial Science became a well funded and researched area of interest, there was a ceiling the moving arts could theoretically produce to support people with orthopedic pain and vulnerabilities. To this day, the old biomechanical model often prevails leaving many without a full understanding of the scope of treatment and training that can be provided to those who are looking to relieve pain and subsequent surgery. There is a world of fascial science and theory that now allow for an understanding of how vulnerabilities in areas other than the site of pain can be treated or targeted to create resiliency and strength leading to a healing cascade and full recovery from pain. (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3091422/) These theories and models are the basis of Derek's philosophy and training approach. Layered on top of numerous certifications and fields of education Derek pulls from a vast knowledge bank to work with each client's unique condition, needs and goals. Along with his personal journey with movement as a former athlete and professional performer he focuses on the joy that being connected to our bodies provides us.
Consistent with this newer model of movement, grounded in fascial science, Kettlebells offer live weight manipulation that targets the natural spiraling of the fascial system. This naturally spiraling exchange of force, conditions the networks to a degree difficult to challenge with traditional weight lifting. Further, the living weight calls for a challenge to the stability and mobility systems providing the feedback needed to the deepest fascicle. Proper Kettlebell technique is the perfect tool for maximizing proprioreception and innate movement understanding. Guided by an expert eye, the work can lead a body back to resilience and adaptability regardless of former imbalances and vulnerabilities.