The session
Ninety minutes on your gesture.
The session works on your movement: the gesture you repeat every day, or the one from your sport. Alone, or in pairs.
What happens in ninety minutes
The shape is always this, and the order isn’t negotiable. What changes every time is the central part: that’s where we work on your gesture, and it changes with you.
Remove
A few release exercises, standing, to let go of the tension that keeps one side glued. They come from Taiji, from a school I have practised for over ten years, reread for one purpose only: to free the movement.
Your gesture
This is the heart, and it is different every time: it changes with your sport, your work, what you feel that day. We observe where the gesture starts and try starting it from the other side. Immersive, not repetitive.
Integrate
Still, with attention on the whole body. It is the part that seems least useful and it is the one that makes everything else stay — and the only one you can redo alone, five minutes a day.
Where
Where you train
Outdoors or in a suitable space. All you need is comfortable clothes and shoes you can walk in.
Where you train
For one-to-one sessions I come to the place where you already train: the gym, the studio, the space where you do your sport. It’s the better option if the gesture you want to work on is tied to a specific piece of equipment or space.
Formats and prices
Just you and your gesture
Ninety minutes built around your needs, from the first minute to the last.
From two people up
Same duration, same structure. If you already train together it is the most sensible option: you watch each other walk, and the side shows sooner.
If the first session does not convince you, you do not pay for it. No arguing and no explanations. And there are no compulsory packages: we build a tailored path, and continue for as long as it makes sense.
What changes
It isn’t a cure. But something changes, and it shows.
You notice things you’ve been doing for twenty years
Which foot starts, which shoulder carries, which way you turn. It seems little: it’s the shift from automatism to something observable, and it happens the very first time. In the same session you feel the tension your body was dragging for no reason let go. And you take home a test you can redo alone in twenty seconds.
The load stops going to the same place
A body that always starts from the same side accumulates it there. Being able to start from the other one distributes it, and over twenty years that’s the difference between a joint that wears out and one that takes turns resting. Meanwhile the weight reaches the ground more fully: stable without stiffening.
Not stronger on one side: available on both
It doesn’t make you better at the gesture you already have: it gives you the one you don’t. Fighters stop being readable. Performers no longer have their presence tilting to the same side. And anyone, when the usual side is tired, has an alternative instead of stopping. When the strong one can’t, the other is no longer a stranger.
Everything else rests on a single instant. When you shift your weight and feel that tug, the body is still, in a tension that isn’t movement yet — and that’s where there are three ways out: go with it, bounce back, or open a new direction. Learning doesn’t mean starting from the other side: it means recognising that instant and staying inside it instead of rushing through.
What it isn’t
It isn’t a massage and isn’t a treatment: I don’t fix you, you learn. It isn’t physiotherapy and doesn’t replace your doctor: if you have acute pain, tingling or loss of strength, your doctor comes first.
Nor is it a workout: no sweating, no counting reps, no need to be fit. And it doesn’t touch the technique of your sport, which stays your coach’s job: here we work on the point technique starts from.
Who it works for, and who it doesn’t
It works for people who have lived for years with one side in charge and want to regain use of the other: athletes, performers, people who bring their body into their work, and anyone with a shoulder or hip that always complains in the same spot.
It doesn’t work if you’re after an instant result with no practice, or if you expect someone else to fix you. Here you learn to notice and to choose: it takes attention, and some clumsiness at the start.
The first session
Write me two lines: which gesture you’re interested in, whether you prefer the canal or the place where you train, and whether you’re coming alone or with someone. I’ll reply with a day and time.