What you can practice with me
You do not need flexibility. You do not need experience. You do not need to understand qi, or know what a form is, or be able to pronounce Taijiquan.
You need twenty minutes and the willingness to be awkward.
That is how every practice begins. Mine did. Yours will.
Most students start with Qigong.
Not because it is simple — it is not. But because it is gentle, and gentleness is what the body needs before it can be asked to do anything else.
Qigong teaches you to stand. To breathe. To feel what is already moving inside you. There is nothing to memorize, nothing to perfect. Only attention — placed carefully, held patiently, allowed to deepen.
If you have never practiced internal arts, this is your door. If you have practiced for years, this is still where I will ask you to return.
Six arts. Each one a different question the body learns to ask.
Not every student practices all six. Some stay with one for years. Some move between them as their questions change. There is no required sequence, no belt system, no graduation.
There is only what you are ready to receive — and that changes.
Small groups, in person. We practice together. I teach by demonstration, by correction, by standing beside you and doing it again. The group holds the rhythm. You find your own pace inside it.
One on one. For students who want focused attention, who are working through an injury, or who are ready for material that requires patience and close guidance. This is where the deepest corrections happen — the ones that change not just your form, but your relationship to your body.
For students at a distance. Online work is different, but it works. Breath, alignment, intention, slow forms — these translate. What matters is consistency, not proximity.
Longer immersions into a single art or theme. These go deeper than weekly classes allow. Some are local. Some travel to where the art was born.
I do not teach self-defense techniques. I do not teach competition forms. I do not teach fitness routines with martial arts branding.
What I teach is internal practice — the kind that changes how you stand, how you breathe, how you hold tension, how you let it go. The martial application is real, but it emerges from the body's honesty, not from rehearsed combat.
If you are looking for a workout, I am not your teacher. If you are looking for something that works on you while you work on it — we should talk.
Your first session will be quieter than you expect. We will not rush. I will watch how you stand, how you breathe, where you hold. Then we will begin — slowly, with less than you think you need.
You will feel awkward. That is correct. You will want to do more. I will ask you to do less. You will wonder if anything is happening. It is.
The practice does not announce itself. It accumulates in silence — and then one morning you notice that something has shifted. Your shoulders. Your breath. Your sleep. The way you respond when someone pushes you, on the mat or off it.
That is when it has begun.
I teach in the Tampa Bay area and online. Private sessions and workshops are available by arrangement. Group class schedules shift with the seasons.
The simplest way to begin is to reach out and tell me what brought you here.
Step Through the DoorYou do not need to be ready.
You only need to arrive.
The rest unfolds.