About Better Movement
This site expands on my previous blog at BetterMovement.org, which I have been writing since 2010. The blog is about the science and practice of moving better and feeling better, and addresses topics like chronic pain, posture, physical therapy, motor control, exercise and play. My writing is science and evidence based, and often provides perspectives rooted in complexity science and evolutionary theory.
I offer regular online movement classes based on the Feldenkrais Method.®
The new project for the blog is to serialize my new book Healthy Movement for Human Animals.
About me
I used to be an attorney who had chronic pain, but eliminated my pain through self-education, lifestyle change and working on my movement. I quit the law to help others with their pain and movement in 2005.
Since then I’ve been a manual and movement therapist helping people with pain. I am a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and previously completed a training program in bodywork.
I have played sports all my life. I am mediocre at soccer and golf, pretty good at tennis and squash, and an expert at pool.
I’m intensely interested in almost any form of physical training or movement therapy and have read about and played with most of them - CrossFit, yoga, pilates, kettlebells, “sport specific” training, barbell training, endurance training, functional training, martial arts, dance, DNS/FMS/FRC/PNF, etc.
About my books
In 2014 I published a book called A Guide to Better Movement: The Science and Practice of Moving with More Skill and Less Pain.
In June 2019 I published a second book called Playing With Movement: How to Explore the Many Dimensions of Physical Health and Performance.
My books are available in three languages, have sold more than 20,000 copies, and have received acclaim from physical therapy professors, trainers for professional sports teams, and scientists who study pain, sport and exercise.
