Movement Coach Charles

“I started working with Charles about a year and a half ago to address a lingering hip injury from years of ice hockey, along with the imbalance that comes from overusing your quads and hip flexors at the expense of your glutes and hamstrings.

He spotted early on that this dysfunction was the real reason I couldn’t quite get back to 100% on the ice, and that observation shaped the way we worked together.
Charles approaches strength holistically, looking at how the body’s systems relate to one another rather than isolating muscles, and over time that translated to real changes in how I move.

Between our sessions and the exercises he sent me home with, I’m in a much better place on the ice. The pain is gone, my stability is significantly better, my posture has shifted, and I notice I’m carrying myself with more confidence in general.

Charles is also just easy to be around: genuinely supportive, quick to celebrate the wins, and willing to push you when you need it. If you’re working through an injury or a stubborn movement pattern and want someone who’ll think about your body as a whole system, he’s worth your time.”

If you look at the position of the ribs, belly, pelvis, and legs in Ryan’s before and after images you can see that he made a lot of changes to the way the bones in these containers stack relative to one another. The muscles, fascia and even the pneumatic pressure systems are holding a very different baseline tension that supports distribution of force throughout his system rather than isolating that force in hyper-mobile pockets of his system.
This has created more freedom and safety in Ryan’s body and given his nervous system the security to enjoy hockey rather than constantly protecting his body from the threat of further injury.

It was a pleasure working with you Ryan, wishing you years and years of play and presence on the ice.

Chicago basin. 2025

The alpine diesel train that took us on a 30 mile journey into the San Juan forest and dropped us off at the trailhead is as magical as it sounds ✨ . Choo chooing on the edge of a cliff overlooking a river just hits different 🏔️ 🚂
We got robbed at needlepoint by a massive porcupine. It snuck into our campsite at night and chewed up anything it could find. It especially liked things that seem like they could be food but aren’t like cork or rubber. It also scared the absolute s**t out of me when it crept under my rain fly in the middle of the night making alien clicking noises. By the time I turned my headlamp on we were face to face and it was staring directly into the windows of my soul. To be fair, we were the unfamiliar strangers intruding into his territory.
The San Juans will be a place I return to over and over again for years to come. Grateful to have a body that is capable of traversing this remote landscape. Grateful for friends who are down for these tough and rugged adventures. Grateful for this incredibly sacred and beautiful land that brings us home. Home to our hearts, home to our bodies, home to presence.

Blue lakes pass to Mt. Sneffels 🤧.
October 2024.
First backpacking trip in Colorado.
Things that remind me: I am just a small part of something much much greater than me. I don’t need to understand it perfectly to accept it or love it. It doesn’t need a clear name or to be distilled down to a fiction of the simple human mind.
It exists either way and is evident in every moment we experience, every beautiful emotion that rises from our center, every time our body interacts with plants, dirt or sunlight.
I was designed perfectly with all that was designed around me.