Steven Sashen is a serial entrepreneur who has never had a job, a former professional stand up comic and award-winning screenwriter, and a competitive sprinter -- one of the fastest men over 55 in the country (maybe the fastest 55+ Jew in the world!). He and his wife, Lena Phoenix, co-founded the footwear company Xero Shoes, creating "a MOVEMENT movement" which has helped hundreds of thousands of people Live Life Feet First with happy, healthy, strong feet in addictively comfortable footwear. Steven and Lena also appeared on Shark Tank, where they turned down a $400,000 offer from Kevin O'Leary.

Physical Therapist (MPT) since 1998 and board certified orthopedic clinical specialist (OCS) with the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties (2011 to 2021). Extensive postgraduate training in neck and back rehabilitation with an emphasis in manual therapy. Certified Therapeutic Pain Specialist (TPS) through Evidence in Motion Institutes of Health Professions in partnership with Purdue University (2020). Jarlo Ilano has been teaching martial arts for over 20 years, with a primary focus on Filipino Martial Arts. His main goal is to teach students how to fight effectively as quickly as possible and enjoy their training.

With experience spanning twenty- five years of dancing, choreographing, performing, coaching, teaching, and facilitating, Anna has reached an expert level of personal development through movement, and uses her knowledge to coach clients through their own journeys as a BodyMind Movement Facilitator. She is deeply passionate about the body-mind practice and somatic experiencing, and works to nurture that connection for people via movement in her signature method and class 'Unstructured', which she offers in person and online. She incorporates dance and movement in various ways spanning from artistry to healing, and everything in between.

I am a dancer, dance teacher and choreographer, originally from Israel and based in Berlin. After studying dance and working as a dancer in Israel, I moved to Europe, where I expanded my knowledge and started to develop my research, practice and methods of teaching and creating. Upon moving to Europe, I participated in a one year post-graduate studies at SEAD, Salzburg, where I met Martin Kilvady, who became my close teacher and mentor for the following 10 years. While learning closely and collaborating frequently with Martin, I have also worked with different choreographers and performed around Europe. For 6 years I’ve been a part of the Ido Portal team and taught in his events around the world. Working with Ido has opened a bridge for me to the Movement world which allowed me to share my knowledge and experience from the dance field with a wide range of movement practitioners. In the last few years I have been teaching contemporary dance and improvisation in different frames for professional dancers, BA and MA education programs, in professional dance companies and in open workshops around the world, while developing my own choreographic work and working as a freelance dancer and teacher.

Dance was a first love for Tracee Kafer, who began at 3 and went on to journey through well over 30 years of training and experience in classical and contemporary genres. She’s moved though these landscapes of student, performer, nationally-ranked competitor, world-traveling teacher, NY-based choreographer, and in the last decade alone shifted passionately and purposefully to the realms of the explorer; practicing and facilitating her own ever-evolving freestyle movement methods to become untethered from genre, style, convention, and apparatus. She believes that if you can move, you can dance, and in honoring that process as a life practice, you can live in a world of personal awareness, connection, and freedom. Tracee created Finding Your Freestyle® (FYF) in 2012, a movement and lifestyle enterprise that encourages freedom in movement, expression, creativity and community. Tracee has facilitated workshops and intensives in the FYF methods internationally, and has fostered a global community of “freestylers” who regularly utilize the practices in their own movement, creative endeavors, and life. In the last 6 years, Tracee has hosted immersive movement retreats as well in New York, Sedona, San Diego, and Costa Rica.  A true inspiration addict with an insatiable appetite for both the cerebral and esoteric, Tracee is currently studying to facilitate Family and Systemic Constellations, practices integrative tarot and crystal work, is Reiki-attuned, certified in HypnoConstellations™ and Floor Flow®, and is a dedicated meditator (trained in guiding with Jeff Warren), bibliophile, and graphic arts nerd. Additionally, Tracee spends the other half of her creative life as a graphic designer and creative director for the world-renowned pole and aerial dance studio, Body & Pole. In years past she has worked with many other movement brands such as elevatED Teacher Trainings, Black Girls Pole, Train P3, Bodybinds, as well as Apple, Inc. as a Software Trainer.

Meri Burgess is a circus artist, dancer, software developer, and general art-and-movement enthusiast based in the front range of Colorado. She specializes in pole dance and cyr wheel, but has also frequently performed aerial, contortion, stilt walking, and roller skating. Meri is known for her experimental conceptual pole performances, working with unique invented apparatuses such as the "tree pole", and developing and integrating bespoke AI and motion tracking technology into her work. She graduated from the Frequent Flyers professional training program in aerial dance performance in 2015, is the 2020 Pole Sport Organization national artistic pole champion, and currently runs Inanimate 48, an annual apparatus based dance-meets-film event that takes place online and is open to anyone who wishes to exercise their creativity with weight bearing objects. https://youtu.be/R4RxE-mhXoM?t=38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LalF7upCcYo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIO-UpBD33U

Aaron Cantor, a practitioner of yoga, meditation, martial arts, and biohacking, explores the topics of physical training regimens, setting boundaries for freedom in movement, the intersection of value and practice, the Kenny G controversy, authentic movement, the power of storytelling, navigating bittersweet endings, partner work and improvisation in movement, embracing fear and discomfort, and narrative perspectives and empathy.

Marie Janicek is a Movement Teacher and Guide, here to help others discover how movement shapes not just our physical bodies, but our mental, emotional, and spiritual selves as well. Through her experience as a professional dancer, personal trainer, and health coach, she discovered that bringing attention to the emotions, sensations, and energies we feel within ourselves in relationship to our bodies and our movement practices is key to helping us find a more fulfilling & empowering relationship to our bodies and allows us achieve our desires with more ease and less effort. She hosts the This Thing Called Movement podcast, a forum dedicated to changing our understanding of movement, and is the creator of Evolna, a platform designed to share her personal movement methodology with any and all who want to explore a new way of moving, feeling, and being within their bodies.

As a child Brendan was drawn to martial arts and began training in TaeKwonDo in 1988 when he was just 5 years old, 3 years later he began wrestling too. Brendan competed in TaeKwonDo from 1988-1994 where he competed and placed multiple times on a national level and wrestled competitively from 1990-2002. In college Brendan discovered Kickboxing and began competing in local fights in Massachetts while he was in college. From 2005–2012, Brendan was a professional mixed martial artist (MMA) and Kickboxer competing on the world’s biggest stages. Fighting out of Jackson Wink in Albuquerque, NM, and Fighting Arts Academy in Springfield, MA, he amassed 16 professional fights (10 in MMA and 6 in Kickboxing). He retired in 2012 with a 7:3:0 record in MMA and 4:2:0 in kickboxing. Brendan trained with some of the industry’s biggest names. His experience includes a professional kickboxing fighting in Thailand and in 2012 Brendan got to live a dream fighting for the UFC's Ultimate Fighter, Season 15. Brendan also was a competitor on Steve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge (Season 3) in 2015. A few years after retiring from his professional fight career competing on the world’s biggest stages, Brendan decided to leave consumer-facing gyms to found B-well consulting in order to expand the reach of his impact to a wider demographic providing services to corporations.  Shortly after, Brendan began getting traction and consulting for a mid-size pharmaceutical company, providing a digital wellness curriculum. In early 2016, Brendan also accepted a more significant consulting position at a large hedge fund where he had been consulting for a few years. There he developed group classes, private programming for the partners of the firm, and performed an operational role managing the gym facility, while he was forming Workweek Wellness.  In February 2017, Brendan launched Workweek Wellness, a fully scalable, white-labeled, content-driven platform designed to improve the lives of people in corporate environments. After spending a year in NYU’s EdTech program and finding traction with Workweek Wellness and finding inspiration from his mother, Brendan then decided to launch a wellness company geared towards active seniors called LyfeProof. The mission is to help retirees increase the quality of their life and prolong their longevity by improving their personal wellness effort by using computer vision. After completing the NYC Media Lab with LyfeProof Brendan wanted to find a way to help during the Covid-19 crisis so he teamed up with a friend who was also looking to make a difference during the pandemic and started Actively Young. He also joined the founding team of Passdoor, whose mission is to provide students with first hand experience of Broadway taught by the stars in the show. In the late fall of 2021 Brendan joined the Nobody team and works in a Business Lead Role for their health and wellness companies where he is brings companies from the idea stage into the market creating and testing M.V.P.s.

Aaron Cantor, a world traveler and seeker of enlightenment, discusses his body of work called 'primal practice' which focuses on stories, games, and practice as portals into deep encounters with the unknown. They explore the concept of infinite play and the importance of playfulness, outsourcing movement and sensory experiences, and living in the question while embracing the unknown. They also discuss their approach to movement, their fascination with writer Stephen Jenkinson, and the relationship between individualism and citizenship in dance.