Bio:

I’m a movement educator with 45 years of martial experience. My teaching focuses not on creating a new style, but on helping practitioners return to their inner center. My work integrates breath, musculoskeletal alignment, Southern and Mississippian cosmology, and the nervous system’s response to stress. I guide students through familiarity, adaptation, and presence — where movement becomes effortless rather than forced. My approach is called The Locus Method, not as a new system, but as a pathway for remembering the body’s original intelligence.

Topic:

Axis, Earth, and Breath: This segment explores the Axis Mundi principle — using vertical alignment, breath, and grounded footwork to cultivate ease under movement. Practitioners will work with entering, yielding, redirecting, and closing space without tension or force. The focus is not on techniques but on translating inner alignment into motion. Nothing replaces anyone’s art — everything discovered follows them back into their own practice. “THE CENTER IS NOT TAUGHT. THE CENTER IS REMEMBERED.”