For 18 years I have specialized in reversing common injury & pain conditions to help my students achieve top function, performance and conditioning for life.  I haven’t trained many athletes over the years, but every one I trained made it to the highest levels of their sport.  

I started out as a medical exercise specialist, and have been building on those powerful techniques ever since, to create a system that I have found to work even better: Somatic Exercise Education.    

I move people across the fitness spectrum from limitation and pain, into optimal function, all the way to elite conditioning.  My most advanced fitness offering is essentially like cross-fit—without the injuries.  It’s hard to imagine adorning the body of a god when you’re injured and overweight, but with the right guide and a positive attitude, you will get there.  100%.       

A little bit about me:  I needed medically supervised weight loss by the time I was 11.  The doctor said he’d put me in the hospital and wire my jaw shut if I couldn’t lose the weight.  I did eventually get the weight off.  Long story short, I became the master of stubborn fat loss.  There is no mystery to fat loss.  You are a bio-mechanism like everybody else; when you get the strategy right, the weight falls off.  I’ve been there.  I know.   

It turns out my body is filled with congenital muscle imbalances that made me look like a wounded duck when I walked as a kid; the kids made fun of me because of this, but worst of all it led to a decade of painful injuries over my whole body.  

With my Soma-X techniques, I have reversed osteoarthritis of my hip, patellofemoral syndrome in my knees and tennis elbow.  I have two separated shoulders (grade 2 & 1), which handily has made me a world class expert on functional shoulder strength.  I separated my left shoulder (grade 2) in late September and was deadlifting again by Christmas.  I suffered from chronic low back pain since age 16; the cause, as it happens, was fairly simple.  My first injury was a displaced rib, which felt like being stabbed in the back when I breathed.  I have been able to reverse all of my injuries with Soma-X.  I personally have helped over 1000 students move past pain and limitations to achieve the life of their dreams.   

Specifically, Soma-X has reversed little’s disease (a form of cerebral palsy) in a dear friend and client, Maria Skelly.  Maria spent 12 years in bed forced to take assorted, high power pain medications, including methadone, for the neurological pain.  The doctors could do nothing but increase already lethal doses of medication.  Six months after beginning Soma-X, Maria was off the drugs, and out of pain.  Maria wrote the book, the pilot light effect, to share her dramatic transformative story with the world (it’s available at the library).  I have prevented two male students from needing back surgery.  I have brought optimal function back to many severe back injuries, many of which involved surgery.  I have put many cases of fibromyalgia into remission.  I have also reversed neuropathic pain in a client who honestly believed there was no more hope for her.