About Teacher D
A life shaped by experience.
A practice shared with care.
My purpose in teaching is to help you discover a more attentive, connected way of moving, and bring that awareness into everyday life.
My students know me as Teacher D. I’m the founder of Jade Chi Do, a practice of meditation, mind-body exercises, and moving meditation.
My path began long before I had a name for what I would teach. During a difficult time in my youth, a Kung Fu teacher offered me a place to stay and an opportunity to learn. I cleaned the school, trained, and eventually helped teach. Some of the lessons he shared only became clear to me years later.
I went on to study other martial arts, while work, family, injury, and profound personal loss continued to shape my understanding. Those experiences taught me to value patience, the care we offer one another, and the opportunity to do something meaningful with what we have learned.
In the early 1990s, I began developing the approach that became Jade Chi Do. It grew here in America from years of practice, personal observation, and a lifelong curiosity about awareness and movement. Its own identity took shape alongside the philosophy I call the Warm Force.
In my teaching, that philosophy means beginning from your center, paying attention, and allowing understanding to grow through experience.
We explore how the body moves together: how a shift of weight begins, how the arms and legs coordinate, and how one movement flows into the next. Standing and seated exercises offer different ways to practice. Unity exercises, for example, invite you to explore coordinated movement while seated.
I care especially about making this exploration approachable as we grow older, while welcoming younger people and those beginning for the first time. The focus is on practicing awareness, balance, coordination, and comfortable movement at a pace that respects your present abilities.
You are invited to observe, ask questions, and discover through practice. My role is to offer guidance and a place to begin.
What matters most to me is what you can carry into your own life, a more attentive step, a clearer sense of how you move, or a quiet moment in which you feel more connected with yourself.
Begin from your center. Explore at your own pace.
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