Mike (he/him)

Mike considers himself an experimental acrobat. It has been noted that “the Greek term for ‘acrobatics’ literally means ‘to walk on the extremities’.” Carry this definition towards artist Lee Lozano’s statement, “Seek the extremes, that’s where all the action is” and you have a working explanation of why. After what felt like a life-time refusing any coherent connection between his headspace and his corporeality, Mike took up an intensely dedicated yoga practice before realizing that dynamic movement and inversions offered him a more accessible route into an embodied capacity for the flow state. His goal as a teacher is to help you look at movements from a variety of different angles in order to find out what works best for your individual body, skill-level, or style. While he recognizes & pays attention to the fact that there are inherently “objective” bio-mechanical properties that need to be understood as the building blocks of any given movement pattern, he is strongly opposed to the insistence that these building blocks must be arrived at via a singular route or end up looking a specific way. He wants to help you figure out how to enjoy acrobatic movement in a way that fits you and your body. While learning tricks is cool, putting the work into teaching your body how to comfortably move in new ways is a larger part of his teaching pedagogy.