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The Art of Retreat is an idea-exchange platform supporting education, development, and leadership within Parkour. We come together to exchange new ideas and information across a wide array of subjects including coaching methods, education theory, best business practices, scientific research, architectural and urban design, global trends, and local community building.
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Niko Pal is the Director and head coach at Parkour Vision’s Portland program. He started Parkour in 2010, began teaching in 2012 and has made it his career ever since. Niko earned his B.S. from Portland State University in 2015, where he dual majored in Public Health and Exercise Science. Niko continued his education at Transformation Studio, a Specialty Holistic Biomechanics studio. There he learned about how the many systems of the human body work together to create function. In his down time he can be found adventuring with friends, playing Rocket League, or tapping around on a piano.The 2023 Art of Retreat is brought to you by the generous support of our sponsors: United States Parkour Association, Powered by Passion, Parkour Visions, Craig Constantine, Parkour Generations Americas, Enso Movement, Freedom in Motion, Urban Youth Park, and the Movement Creative.
Molly has many jobs and titles. She's a parkour coach, a business owner, a Certified Personal Trainer, a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, and a mom of three! She started as a coach in training at a gymnastics summer camp 23 years ago and found her passion for helping others overcome personal obstacles. She obtained her Bachelor's Degree in Exercise Science from Oregon State where she also coached gymnastics, cheered her senior year, and completed internships in cardiac rehab and fitness over 50. After college, she became a certified personal trainer, performed as a professional acrobat, had kids, and coached in corporate health for EXOS at Intel. After attaining her Board Certification she opened The Movement Park, a Parkour facility in Hillsboro Oregon. Despite all these things, she still never wants to grow up and has personal goals to be a flipping-forty-year-old!The 2023 Art of Retreat is brought to you by the generous support of our sponsors: United States Parkour Association, Powered by Passion, Parkour Visions, Craig Constantine, Parkour Generations Americas, Enso Movement, Freedom in Motion, Urban Youth Park, and the Movement Creative.
Justin Taylor is the Owner of Firestorm Freerunning, which has two gyms in Southern California. Justin, along side Summer Sampilo, runs the West Coast Parkour Championships, the largest Parkour competition series in the U.S. Justin goes by @ParkourProfessor online, and runs a gym/business consultation service that goes by the same name. Justin primarily trains Parkour, Trampwall, Aggressive Inline Skating, and High Diving/Cliff Diving. Justin has enjoyed putting together all of these sentences all starting with the word "Justin". Justin thinks you are pretty awesome. Justin is weird.The 2023 Art of Retreat is brought to you by the generous support of our sponsors: United States Parkour Association, Powered by Passion, Parkour Visions, Craig Constantine, Parkour Generations Americas, Enso Movement, Freedom in Motion, Urban Youth Park, and the Movement Creative.
Garrett Moore is originally from San Diego and brings experience training across the United States, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. He finds peace and community through parkour, running, yoga, and rock climbing. Garrett is passionate about creating positive social change through nonprofit and electoral campaigns committed to human rights. He and his partner Kelly and dog Jackie are in SoCal on their way to Puerto Rico soon. The 2023 Art of Retreat is brought to you by the generous support of our sponsors: United States Parkour Association, Powered by Passion, Parkour Visions, Craig Constantine, Parkour Generations Americas, Enso Movement, Freedom in Motion, Urban Youth Park, and the Movement Creative.
Eric Rossi is a parkour coach and preschool teacher in Hillsboro, Oregon. Eric began his parkour journey in 2005 and has since worked with many different organizations to develop his coaching craft. He helped develop the toddler and preschool age programs as head coach of High Exposure from 2015 - 2017, helped strengthen the Melbourne Parkour classes for kids in Australia, and is currently developing programs with The Movement Park in Hillsboro, OR. Eric's current project involves distilling the knowledge and best practices around child development and classroom management to be shared in a structured way with the parkour coaching community. Eric hopes that this work will help inspire, improve, and grow early childhood movement classes across other gyms and parkour organizations while also helping those coaches involved see themselves as valued Early Childhood Movement Education experts in their community. The 2023 Art of Retreat is brought to you by the generous support of our sponsors: United States Parkour Association, Powered by Passion, Parkour Visions, Craig Constantine, Parkour Generations Americas, Enso Movement, Freedom in Motion, Urban Youth Park, and the Movement Creative.
Charles St. John is in the fortunate position of combining is personal passions with his professional skills. Through the combination of his degrees in Digital Media, Communications, and Business Administration plus his long-time passion of coaching parkour at APEX Denver, he landed a job at the gym software company Zen Planner as their Creative and Development Marketing Specialist. He has since pivoted to working for the online fitness publishing company Motion Impulse, known for the Handstand Factory and Modern Methods of Mobility online programs, where he serves as the Head of E-Commerce and Digital Marketing. In his free time, he volunteers his skills to USPK and advocates for the creation of parkour parks in the US.The 2023 Art of Retreat is brought to you by the generous support of our sponsors: United States Parkour Association, Powered by Passion, Parkour Visions, Craig Constantine, Parkour Generations Americas, Enso Movement, Freedom in Motion, Urban Youth Park, and the Movement Creative.
Adam’s business experience comes from his parkour journey, as well as his professional journey outside of parkour. In addition to being a Director at Parkour Generations Americas and the owner of Parkour Generations Lehigh Valley, Adam also works in the child care business and oversees 5 locations within the Lehigh Valley area. These locations collectively run in excess of 7 million dollars a year in revenue, with 130+ employees involved. Between this experience and running martial arts and parkour businesses, Adam has learned important lessons about the use of numbers to manage operations and become more successful.The 2023 Art of Retreat is brought to you by the generous support of our sponsors: United States Parkour Association, Powered by Passion, Parkour Visions, Craig Constantine, Parkour Generations Americas, Enso Movement, Freedom in Motion, Urban Youth Park, and the Movement Creative.
Jimmy Davidson is the Founder and CEO of Freedom in Motion inc. which has three parkour gyms in southern California. Jimmy began his parkour career performing live around the country in 2010. He's since shifted his focus to building a profitable business to support his family and to create opportunities for the growing movement community. The 2023 Art of Retreat is brought to you by the generous support of our sponsors: United States Parkour Association, Powered by Passion, Parkour Visions, Craig Constantine, Parkour Generations Americas, Enso Movement, Freedom in Motion, Urban Youth Park, and the Movement Creative.
Jesse Danger Co-founded the Movement Creative, an organization centered around helping people develop a healthier relationship to movement through the exploration of risk and the development of creativity. He is a coach focused on connecting people by bridging physical, mental, and social aspects in the programming he develops.The 2023 Art of Retreat is brought to you by the generous support of our sponsors: United States Parkour Association, Powered by Passion, Parkour Visions, Craig Constantine, Parkour Generations Americas, Enso Movement, Freedom in Motion, Urban Youth Park, and the Movement Creative.
Elizabeth Cunningham started practicing yoga with her mom when she was 13. She loves yoga because it has been an opportunity for her to connect her mind to her body and challenge herself in ways other activities haven’t. She loves teaching and has been teaching yoga for over three years. What she brings to class is fun, athleticism, and learning new things. Her favorite part of teaching is creating a space where all her students regardless of where they are at in their practice get what they need physically and mentally out of class.The 2023 Art of Retreat is brought to you by the generous support of our sponsors: United States Parkour Association, Powered by Passion, Parkour Visions, Craig Constantine, Parkour Generations Americas, Enso Movement, Freedom in Motion, Urban Youth Park, and the Movement Creative.
Sam Mcfarlane is a parkour athlete turned circus professional from Glasgow. Like many others he found Parkour back in the days of 'Jump London' and 'Jump Britain'. Since then Sam has made himself a career out of movement and has been a full time performer and coach for the last 6 years.Art of Retreat LIVES are off-the-cuff conversations recorded live with an online audience. Lead by John 'Hedge' Hall of Access Parkour.
Sebastien Foucan was among the pioneers of parkour in Paris in the 1980s. As a teenager who struggled at school and had difficulties at home, climbing, jumping, running, playing and interacting with the landscape became an escape for him and his friends. The passion and the dedication for his craft led him to be invited to participate in several high profile performance roles with James Bond in Casino Royale, Madonna, Nike and K-swiss amongst others as well as the world famous Jump London and Jump Britain which ignited the Parkour movement worldwide...Sebastien always put all his energy into his passion, which led him to achieve things he never expected. Through these opportunities came belief in himself and the inner potential that lies in all of us.It always has been his desire to be able to share what he has learned over the years with the children, to see them flourish via his academy.Art of Retreat LIVES are off-the-cuff conversations recorded live with an online audience. Lead by John 'Hedge' Hall of Access Parkour.
Damien started training in 2008 after making friends with Barnz (arguably NZ's first practitioner) who was in the same Sport and Exercise Science degree. Damien turned his excitement for parkour towards his studies to make it more practical and hopefully helpful to the parkour community. He helped to found Parkour NZ in 2011 and has been its CEO since 2013. Although still an active practitioner and coach, his research interests shifted from biomechanics to sociology. In 2019 he completed his thesis 'Making the Jump: Examining the Glocalisation of Parkour in Aotearoa New Zealand' at the University of Waikato - an exploration into the implications of parkour's 'glocalisation'. During his thesis studies, he also became involved in the development of Parkour Earth and took over the CEO role in February 2020. He now works full time for Sport Waikato, a Regional Sports Trust. When he's not working he tries to be a good husband to Nicole, a doting dad to their two daughters, and continues to muddle his way through his Christian faith."Art of Retreat LIVES are off-the-cuff conversations recorded live with an online audience. Lead by John 'Hedge' Hall of Access Parkour.
Kelley Glaister has been coaching parkour since 2014, mostly in Scotland (her favourite place in the universe) and has been arguing with Hedge about incivility and diversity in some form or the other for even longer than that. She moved back to Melbourne in 2016 and now works with Melbourne in Motion. Outside of parkour, Kel is a visual artist with a MFA from the Glasgow School of Art. She doesn’t like shoes that much and recently developed an interest in throwing heavy things around.Art of Retreat LIVES are off-the-cuff conversations recorded live with an online audience. Lead by John 'Hedge' Hall of Access Parkour.
Charlotte Boenigk is a yoga-loving, aerial-silks-dabbling, triathlon-trying, freerunning, weight-training girly-girl and the director of Free Your Instinct. FYI is a charity that helps those with mental health support needs by delivering parkour classes.Art of Retreat LIVES are off-the-cuff conversations recorded live with an online audience. Lead by John 'Hedge' Hall of Access Parkour.
Nina Ballantyne is Scotland's favourite Parkour Gran. She sometimes teaches Parkour for fun but mostly lobbies government(s) to make changes to social security, housing and employment, where they’re needed most. Nina’s a director at Parkour Outreach, helping to deliver the first ever Coach Europe event last year, and recently launched a community directory of online training and classes available for parkour practitioners during lockdown. She used to work as a postie.Caitlin Pontrella is a founding member and a current director of the United States Parkour Association, executive director of Parkour Visions and the director of the Art of Retreat. Over the past 10+ years she has worked in both private and public sector, founding parkour companies, leadership events, working with city governments to incorporate play initiatives, and building over 40 pop-up playgrounds along the way. She has a degree in architecture, is a play researcher, a burner and a prolific writer.Art of Retreat LIVES are off-the-cuff conversations recorded live with an online audience. Lead by John 'Hedge' Hall of Access Parkour.
Craig Constantine is a student of Art du Déplacement, podcaster, blogger, avid reader, casual mountain-bike cyclis, programmer, system administrator, and problem solver. It's clear that he lives a busy life. Craig is most famous in the parkour community for his Movers Mindset podcast.Art of Retreat LIVES are off-the-cuff conversations recorded live with an online audience. Lead by John 'Hedge' Hall of Access Parkour.
Christopher Keighley is a senior coach at Parkour Generations and serves as board member of both ParkourUK and Parkour Earth. With his extensive travels across the world, Chris is heavily involved in parkour internationally. He's probably best known in his role delivering the ADAPT qualification worldwide.Art of Retreat LIVES are off-the-cuff conversations recorded live with an online audience. Lead by John 'Hedge' Hall of Access Parkour.
Mark Toorock is the founder and CEO of American Parkour and a director of the United States Parkour Association. With an early career in finance and technology - Mark discovered Parkour while living in London in 2003 helping define the discipline with many of the movement’s founders. Mark has brought Parkour to the mainstream media through television, high profile performances, and advertising for major brands. Mark’s latest venture involves bringing parkour to schools and designing equipment that supports the joy of movement that early parkour training can bring to kids. Mark’s curriculum and equipment can now be found in 45 schools throughout Washington DC and Maryland. American Parkour is also beginning to implement parkour programs and facilities in summer camps.Art of Retreat LIVES are off-the-cuff conversations recorded live with an online audience. Lead by John 'Hedge' Hall of Access Parkour.
Brandee is a humanimal who has been practicing parkour since 2006. She has over ten years of teaching experience with the non-profit organization Parkour Visions and has led classes, seminars, and collaborated with parkour communities and organizations worldwide. As an instructor, she’s known for her attention to detail, creative approaches to training, and for bringing boundless playful energy into her sessions. A curious human and avid doer-of-things, Brandee is also a juggler and poet, deeply values the mindset of living through utility, and can often be found hanging about at twilight in the trees.Art of Retreat LIVES are off-the-cuff conversations recorded live with an online audience. Lead by John 'Hedge' Hall of Access Parkour.
Alan Tran is a parkour coach and collaborator from Raleigh, NC in the US. At the start of practicing parkour in 2006, Alan knew he wanted to dedicate his efforts towards sharing the practice and its values. He immediately started an online forum and organized a university-sanctioned parkour club. Alan later co-founded Enso Movement in 2011 to extend his work. He continues with devotion coaching passionately, running the Art of Retreat conference, and managing operations for the United States Parkour Association.Art of Retreat LIVES are off-the-cuff conversations recorded live with an online audience. Lead by John 'Hedge' Hall of Access Parkour.
Barbora Red is the operations manager for a large company in London as well as the operations manager for Parkour Generations London. With a decade of experience working in the world of business, she brings all sorts of lessons from the ‘real’ world into the parkour industry.Growing up in a family of entrepreneurs, Janne Laurila has been involved in various boards since the age of 16. With eighteen years of experience in every possible boardroom role, he remains an active board member in a local parkour club, the Finnish national governing body, and Parkour Earth. Additionally he has sat on the board of an internationally operating listed company and has served on a multi million euro construction company board for twelve years.Art of Retreat LIVES are off-the-cuff conversations recorded live with an online audience. Lead by John 'Hedge' Hall of Access Parkour.
Ševo Saša is the founder of the world famous Skochypstiks brand. A handmade brand from Serbia. He has been a driving force of parkour / Art Du Deplacement development in the Balkan peninsula since 2005 and has dedicated his life to inspire, teach and share the true spirit of training and movement, encouraging the sense of togetherness in the wider parkour community.Art of Retreat LIVES are off-the-cuff conversations recorded live with an online audience. Lead by John 'Hedge' Hall of Access Parkour.
How do we create strong and resilient individuals with parkour? Chris is from the first wave of UK parkour practitioners inspired by Jump London in 2004. He has been fundamental in the growth of parkour in Scotland and a champion of using parkour as a tool for social change and community improvement. Chris works as the education and young people's officer for a mental health charity in Glasgow, Scotland.Art of Retreat LIVES are off-the-cuff conversations recorded live with an online audience. Lead by John 'Hedge' Hall of Access Parkour.
1Isabel Andrews and Caitlin Pontrella explore public attitudes towards parkour and its practitioners using public spaces and how both art and play may relate. Tune into this episode for a conversation on art, parkour, and public perception.Isabel hails from Cambridge, Massachusetts where she works as a coach with Parkour Generations Boston, jumps on things, and makes art. Her artwork is deeply influenced by her movement practice, and in return the way she thinks about movement has been greatly informed by her study and practice as an artist. She is very interested in the ways people connect to their various environmentsCaitlin is a founding member and a current director of the United States Parkour Association, executive director of Parkour Visions and the director of the Art of Retreat. Over the past 10+ years she has worked in both private and public sector, founding parkour companies, leadership events, working with city governments to incorporate play initiatives, and building over 40 pop-up playgrounds along the way. She is also an architect and a play researcher, a burner and a prolific writer.Art of Retreat LIVES are off-the-cuff conversations recorded live with an online audience. Lead by John 'Hedge' Hall of Access Parkour.
Join health experts Naomi Honey and Billy Morgan on exploring the new world under the impact of COVID-19. They'll answer live audience questions about health, well-being, and fitnes in a world of social distancing and isolation.Naomi Honey is a parkour instructor, life coach, and behavioral change expert. She helps people to reset, re-energize, and take action so they reach the goals and fulfillment they really want in life and at work.Billy Morgan is a director of Movementum where he coaches lifestyle and natural movement. He joins us from Manchester, UK where he helps businesses integrate more movement for their employees' productivity and long-term health.Art of Retreat LIVES are off-the-cuff conversations recorded live with an online audience. Lead by John 'Hedge' Hall of Access Parkour.
"Opportunities are often interpreted as magic. But I think opportunities are the result of the previous actions that you have consciously or subconsciously put into." Natalia Boltukhova is a personal trainer, medical interpreter, and photographer that's traveled all over the globe. She reflects on her career volunteering at large international movement events and in local disaster zones. Join her in defining "usefulness" in this episode.Art of Retreat LIVES are off-the-cuff conversations recorded live with an online audience. Lead by John 'Hedge' Hall of Access Parkour.
Join Andy Day and Viktor Andersson on a conversation about the context of photography to parkour. We dive into how technology can frame our practices and help us navigate the past.Art of Retreat LIVES are off-the-cuff conversations recorded live with an online audience. Lead by John 'Hedge' Hall of Access Parkour.
Join the Art of Retreat Directors and Craig Constantine as they reflect back on the 2019 Art of Retreat North America event. We dive a bit deeper on night missions, organizing a parkour group conference, and event intentions. A great SPARK on what happened and where the team will go next!
Adam McClellan is a director of Parkour Generations Americas. Caitlin Pontrella is Executive Director of Parkour Visions. Alan Tran is the founder of Enso Movement.
The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset.
A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
A teacher sometimes coaches, and a coach sometimes teaches, but their intention and approach typically vary. The SPARK, "Intention-based Coaching" explores the terms we used to define ourselves, and the ways we engage with our students. Join the discussion as Niko seeks what it means to foster movement with intention. We’ll look into the tools different educators use, and the types of outcomes for which they are good. He will begin to dive into helping us explore our own identities with the intention to grow us as educators and mentors.
Niko Pal is the Head Coach at Forge Parkour in Portland, OR, USA. He started Parkour in 2010, began teaching in 2012 and has made it his career ever since. Niko earned his B.S. from Portland State University in 2015, where he dual majored in Public Health and Exercise Science. Niko continued his education at Transformation Studio, a Specialty Holistic Biomechanics studio. There he learned about how the many systems of the human body work together to create function. In his down time he can be found adventuring with friends, playing Rocket League, or tapping around on a piano.
The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset.
A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
In "How to Find, Hire, Train, Retain, and Fire Coaches and Staff," Justin will focus on your coaching team, from finding your coaches all the way to how to let a coach go. He will focus on 5 key points: Finding coaches, hiring practices for bringing new coaches on board, training your new coaches to begin teaching classes, retaining your coaches for the long term, and in the events where necessary, how to terminate coaches. These five primary areas of interest will be broken into two sections - business legal and culture.
Justin Taylor is the owner of Firestorm Freerunning and Acrobatics, a parkour/acrobatics gym with three locations. He is part owner of Movement United in Michigan with the super awesome Jeremiah Bishop! Since starting the Firestorm gyms he has created the West Coast Parkour Championships, the largest series of parkour competitions on the West Coast. Justin co-founded Firestorm Talent & Entertainment with his amazing wife Angel Griffin, one of the best Cirque talent agencies in Los Angeles. Last year Justin started Parkour Professor, a consulting and mentoring program to partner with new or prospective gym owners to help them reach their goals of gym ownership and creating a successful and sustainable business model while retaining the culture that keeps Parkour awesome!
The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset.
A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
In "Know Your Numbers," Adam will review systems for tracking your financial information, your sales processes, and learn how to use KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) to better manage your business. Numbers tell a story about the past, inform the present, and sometimes they can even see into the future. This session is about organizing those numbers into something simple and meaningful, so that you can make better decisions about growing your business.
Adam McClellan’s business experience comes from his parkour journey, as well as his professional journey outside of parkour. In addition to being a Director at Parkour Generations Americas, assistant director of Art of Retreat, and the owner of Parkour Generations Lehigh Valley, Adam also works in the child care business and oversees 5 locations within the Lehigh Valley area. These locations collectively run in excess of 7 million dollars a year in revenue, with 130+ employees involved. Between this experience and running martial arts and parkour businesses, Adam has learned important lessons about the use of numbers to manage operations and become more successful.
The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset.
A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
How do you create a sense of community with your staff members? Or, how do you transform your already existent community to one full of people invested in your mission long term? In this spark session, "Creating Community & Workability with Your Staff," Cordelia will help you gain perspective of your staff, what their commitments and concerns are, and how you can support them in their passions.
Cordelia Storm is a Seattle native who has taught parkour workshops all over the world, including Mexico City & Mumbai. Her first parkour coaches were Rafe Kelley and Tyson Cecka, and she was also taught by Brandee Laird, and later went on to Head Coach at Apex Movement Boulder, before moving to San Diego, and eventually back to Seattle where she is now the Program Director of Parkour Visions. She has participated in leadership programs since 2011 and has coached multiple personal development programs over the years. Cordelia also owns and manages her own personal coaching company which serves as her platform for her clients to increase their effectiveness in all areas of life, including relationships, career, and their passions.
The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset.
A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
New tools, new games, new partners. Last year Nikkie brought a popular Fighting Monkey-inspired movement workshop that was fun and exciting. She's back again to move participants through partner drills and group games that’ll put them outside their comfort zone and help them discover imbalances they can work on to enhance their training. Her session aims to take away concepts and mobility exercises you can use when coaching parkour.
Nikkie Zanevsky runs Wildly Fit – a movement coaching company in Jersey City and NYC. Her practice is a mix of parkour, natural movement (MovNat), Stick Mobility and Fighting Monkey-inspired games. Her goal is to help adults who sit 8+ hours a day RE-learn how to move better so they can have a better quality of life... and have fun doing it! Before starting Wildly Fit, Nikkie was a co-founder of The Movement Creative (NYC's top parkour-coaching organization), and a desk worker for 10+ years. She has taught parkour to people aged 3 to 60+ and is endlessly looking for ways to make movement more accessible to all populations.
The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset.
A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
Have you, or someone you cared about struggled with chronic pain or an injury that never seemed to heal? Chronic pain is complex, and the default intuitions our society hands us are often unhelpful. Come learn the latest science, practical techniques, and better ways of thinking about pain from someone whose been there. Weston will talk about personal recovery and coaching others suffering from chronic pain.
Weston Edwards is an eclectic who vaults over disciplines and boundaries more so than rails. A movement enthusiast with a penchant for dance, meditation, abstraction, interpersonal connection, and philosophical inquiry. He has multiple years of practice in dance, meditation, body building, tai-chi, and chronic pain research. Weston is currently mid-spirit quest after 5 years of software engineering. He can be seen staring off into nothingness and usually asks before biting.
The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset.
A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
What way is north? How do we deescalate a potentially dangerous situation? Don Beeson shares his practical experience with his background in combatives and military. This SPARK also dives a bit deeper into the large group night missions full of fun exercises, drills, and teamwork.
Through initial or team training, SERE specialists are taught to adapt and thrive in a variety of locations including desert, arctic, open ocean, jungle, captivity, combat, and more. Upon graduation, these specialists undergo another year of advanced skills training to include army airborne, combatives, urban evasion, advanced, escape, vehicle acquisition, interrogation training, shooting, and stalking. This episode snapshots this year's night mission and its planning. SSgt Don Beeson is a US Air Force Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape Specialist from Spokane, Washington.
The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset.
A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
Learn the way of the Woodland Warrior as Andy Keller and Austin Weiss reflect back on their large group training. Build strength and skill to be swift as the coursing river, with all the force of a great typhoon. We will explore the wilderness in preparation for an epic battle. Bring your imagination and energy for a playful session that will challenge you physically, too. Aboriginal garb and war paint also welcomed.
Andy Keller was among the first coaching candidates in the United States to receive the world-recognized ADAPT Level Two Coaching Qualification. With an extensive amount of national travel and networking in the North American parkour community, Andy brings diverse experience and a creative coaching style to events and workshops. He is currently a parkour practitioner and coach from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. As a founding member of the tight-knit parkour community in his hometown, Andy encourages both newcomers and veterans to discover their movement capabilities.
Austin began his training at Lehigh Valley Parkour in 2012. With a background in athletics, Austin applies his hard work ethic to his training and continues to develop as a skilled athlete as well as a coach. In 2019 Austin thru hiked the Appalachian Trail. Austin earned his A.D.A.P.T. Level 2 Parkour Coaching Certification in 2016.
The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset.
A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
In "Growth Hacking your Parkour Business," Stephen Leung will share the best and worst marketing practices in small business to help you determine the three things you can do immediately for your parkour business. He will share common growth hacking tools that small companies have used successfully against larger better funded companies.
Stephen Leung is an experienced marketer and product manager having worked at large organizations and startups to produce growth results. He has taken his learnings working at large corporations and applied them to help small businesses grow. He has consulted small businesses in using agile techniques to produce growth in their businesses. Currently, he is at an ad-tech startup which is redefining new marketing opportunities that has been acquired by Microsoft.
The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset.
A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
Parkour and art have many connection points, whether it is through the experience of the flow state, performance, or a different point of view from the mainstream. The "Art of Space" focuses in on the specific connection between public sculpture / installation art and parkour. Melissa will discuss case studies detailing the similarities between installation and parkour, in how both cause onlookers to engage with a space differently, and can change perceptions about that space, as well as challenging preconceived notions about the uses for various objects, whether it is sculpture or public property.
Melissa Way is a coach with Parkour Generations Lehigh Valley. In addition to coaching, she works on the Movers Mindset Podcast. Melissa was initially captivated by parkour’s mental and physical challenge, as well as its creative possibilities. As an artist, she is interested in the intersection of physical and visual creativity, and how both can change the way we perceive and interact with our environment.
The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset.
A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
In "Yoga for Life", Elizabeth Cunningham takes the principles learned from yoga to help participants map them onto parkour and their lives.
Elizabeth Cunningham started practicing yoga with her mom when she was 13. She loves yoga because it has been an opportunity for her to connect her mind to her body and challenge herself in ways other activities haven’t. She loves teaching and has been teaching yoga for over three years. What she brings to class is fun, athleticism and learning new things. Her favorite part of teaching is creating a space where all her students regardless of where they are at in their practice get what they need physically and mentally out of class.
The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset.
A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
Parkour communities in the US have grown significantly over the past few years and are increasingly becoming parts of the urban canvas. As parkour continues to grow, we are going to have to define where our roles are within the communities that we live in. Are we just going to be a small business that serves a small sliver of the population and is relatively unknown outside of that? Blake will examine the ways that we can better integrate parkour communities into the fabric of the urban canvas.
Blake Evitt was a Division 1 college cross country and track athlete when he first tried a parkour class in France. In 2010 he was awarded a prestigious Thomas J Watson Fellowship to continue his exploration on the sport and its evolution taking him around the world. His amazing experiences influenced him to launch Parkour Generations Americas. Today Blake continues to help manage the Somerville / Boston parkour community, develop ADAPT Qualifications instructors, and is a director for the United States Parkour Association.
The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset.
A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
How do our organizations change in the presence of others? Social influences play a large role in how we move, think, and interact with our environments. In his "Peer Pressure - A Social Context Through Movement" workshop, Alan will help participants explore the delicate constructs that manifest between social chemistry and movement. We will observe, play, and reflect on our interactions utilizing tools garnered from parkour, Laban Method, contact improv, and more.
After stumbling across parkour on the internet in 2006, Alan Tran recognized fitness, and movement were the containers for him to help others explore themselves. He has worked to secure the North Carolina parkour community through a multitude of public gatherings, workshops, and service. While attending NC State University, he established the school-sanctioned parkour club. Alan founded Enso Movement to foster the growth and education of parkour, its values, and community. He continues to collaborate with athletes, artists, and designers on many projects including Summit Parkour Gathering, Art of Retreat, United States Parkour Association, and more. Whether teaching classes or studying movement, Alan firmly aspires to help everyone explore the depths of parkour and its values to reveal their truths.
The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset.
A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
Real inclusion isn't about ticking off a checklist. It is about connected and caring relationships, and it can only happen when we are willing to listen to disabled people and work with them to ensure our spaces and services are meeting everyone's needs. In "Neurodiversity & Inclusivity" Paula Flinn will challenge the dominant narrative surrounding autism and other disabilities, as we explore and consider the Neurodiversity Paradigm and the Social Model of Disability. She will look at how understanding and embracing these concepts is vital in ensuring our classes and communities are safe and inclusive for neurodivergent children and adults.
Paula Flinn is a movement loving, neurodivergent woman and mother, who is curious about everything! She works as a Breathwork practitioner and Parkour coach, and is fascinated by the ways in which we can integrate and weave together healing with movement.
The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset.
A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
In "Progress Your Fitness by Playing with Intent - A Framework for Play," Charles will explore a framework to guide play within fitness classes to cultivate particular outcomes in this SPARK. The framework consists of six distinct intentions, sorted into two broad categories. Through referencing this framework when programming, play can go beyond a light-hearted activity to one that also fosters self-efficacy, skill mastery, community, self-confidence, and more.
Charles St.John has been coaching parkour with APEX Movement for over 7 years. He holds an ACE Personal Training Certification and has studied under notable coaches such as Ido Portal, Fighting Monkey, Emmet Louis, and more. He also coaches specialized mobility and joint health classes through his personal brand, Movabilities. Additionally, he has classroom teaching experience from the JET Programme and extensive fitness industry knowledge through his current job working for Zen Planner, a gym management software company.
The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset.
A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
How do you motivate others to action? Every one of us has a story of self to tell that can move others to act. Whether you want to create more buy-in during a kong workshop, raise $200,000 to open a new parkour gym, or organize a community to support the creation of a parkour park in your city, you need to mobilize others to support the cause. Garrett takes us through "Telling Your Story to Motivate Others to Action" to gain concrete tools in community organizing and increase your impact on your local and global community. Originally from San Diego, Garrett Moore brings experience training with communities of movers across the United States, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East before joining his current team, Atlas Parkour. His athletic background includes competitive and recreational gymnastics, collegiate springboard diving, yoga, and rock climbing. He is a passionate Community Organizer engaged in nonprofit and electoral campaigns for progressive policy and social change. The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset. A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
In this SPARK, "The Adaptive Athlete," Rafe will introduce ecological dynamics, task constrained learning for optimal skill acquisition, explicit vs implicit learning, and how do develop open skill abilities in parkour practice.
Rafe Kelley is the founder of Evolve Move & Play and a co-founder and former lead instructor of Parkour Visions. He has training parkour for 14 years and teaching for almost that entire time, prior to parkour Rafe trained in gymnastics for 5 years and martial arts for 10 years. He has since expanded his movement method through diving back into martial arts Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiujitsu, Capoeira and Systema, studied contemporary dance, and done extensive research on motor learning, play theory, ethnography, evolutionary biology, and neurobiology to better understand human movement how to best optimize it.
The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset.
A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
We may often hear or remember the classic parkour-associated phrase, “Be strong to be useful.” Perhaps we even deeply admire this sentiment. In her SPARK, "On Self-Altruism, Parkour, and Being Useful," Brandee will explore how viewing parkour through the lenses of altruism can exist and inspire, and what we as practitioners may assist with and achieve when we make practices of being useful.
Brandee Laird is a dedicated and deliberate practitioner and instructor of parkour and l’art du deplacement who is based out of Seattle, USA with Parkour Visions. Throughout her 13 years of experience amongst parkour communities internationally, she has determined that there’s always more to learn and grow. She is well known for her thoughtful approaches to teaching and is passionate about elevating the quality of classes and student experiences.
The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset.
A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
No matter how good our intentions, so many of us fail to achieve our goals, activate our passions or meet our own standards in any given endeavor. Why? And what can we do to change that? Dan Edwardes will be sharing key components for building your own culture of excellence, both internally and externally, including practical take-aways to make immediate and effective changes that can bring about a paradigm shift in your thinking, your actions and your results. Join him in this SPARK, "Creating a Culture of Excellence."
Dan Edwardes is the founder and CEO of Parkour Generations, a multi-award winning and multi-national organisation for parkour, and has studied practical movement and physical fitness his entire life, with an elite background in fighting arts before finding parkour. He created the globally recognized ADAPT Qualifications which have been delivered in over 35 countries, as well as the Parkour Fitness certifications, and the worldwide Parkour For Schools Programme. Dan was also central to the creation and success of the world’s first National Governing Body for the discipline, Parkour UK. His education programmes have been accredited by numerous international bodies and focus on the science and art of coaching and movement, and on instilling a culture of excellence in every person. Across a twenty year career in teaching Dan has delivered courses, workshops and events to tens of thousands of people worldwide and has no plans to stop.
The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset.
A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
In our modern era people come to view people and nature as separate. We have complex built environments that are oriented around safety and convenience. While these have inherently made our lives easier and allowed great technological advancements it has come at the cost of our health. Kyle Koch will explore this through concepts and ideas borrowed from functional neurology, nature connection practices, medical studies, philosophy and psychology in his SPARK, "Nature Health and Movement."
Kyle Koch has been facilitating transformative experiences in nature for almost a decade: inspiring youth and adults to connect to their gifts through exploration, curiosity, and play. Kyle is always expanding his practice through the study and application of Strength Training, Martial Arts, Meditation, Breath Work, and Functional Neurology Concepts. Kyle began training at Parkour Visions in 2012. After two years in the Parkour gym, he met Rafe Kelley, and was inspired to take his passion for movement back into the trees. When he is not teaching or facilitating, you can find Kyle exploring opportunities to deepen his connection with himself, others, and the Earth.
The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset.
A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
In her SPARK, "Performance 101," Angel will expand your gym's capabilities via a performance team. She'll review your performance goals helping you choose and market to your client base, create a routine, manage client expectations, and lay out any legal aspects to running a performance team.
Angel Griffin is the creator of Firestorm Talent & Entertainment, a sister company of the Firestorm Freerunning and Acrobatics gyms. She recently produced successful events for The Irvine Company, Youtube, Marriott, Google, and Disney. Her experience comes from 20 years in the Industry, and currently is a fire eater/breather, national champion swing and salsa dancer, martial artist and holds the world record for most people in a spinning cyr wheel while breathing fire. She combo-ed her skill sets with Firestorm to create her company, and is passionate about giving people all opportunities to be who they really want to be.
The 2019 Art of Retreat North America is brought to you by our supporting sponsors: Parkour Visions, Enso Movement, Parkour Generations Americas, Zen Planner, Dynasty Fitness, and Movers Mindset.
A special thanks to Craig Constantine and Miguel Chero of Movers Mindset for the production of this episode.
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I find interest in what Dan Edwardes says about over training and Dan says one has a tendency to over train in Parkour. Im not qualified in parkour by any means of the imagination but I involve myself where overtraining is almost necessary to gain the training I wish to achieve. But at the same time being aware my immune system can get depleted. Even before I knew about Parkour but when I had just changed my fitness routine a, year into indoor bouldering at the age of 63 and then I found out about gymnastics. I would attend stretching classes and do moves where I believed I was pushing my body beyond its limits. There was a downside that was quite uncomfortable. This discomfort was especially worse at night while I tried to sleep and would have to be on permanent pain killers. However on the plus side, my body eventually learned how to move around the pain and I stopped taking pain killers. I am often aware of injuries that plague my everyday life. However, I find alternatives, I have