The Passive Hang

Dec 10 2023 84 ep. 89 mins 3
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The Passive Hang podcast presented by Phaon. Documenting and exploring the rise of movement culture in Australia. Featuring movers and their story, perspective, learnings.

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#84: Julian Disterhoft, Movement Bielefeld: How to become a better teacher

Dec 10 2023 126 mins  
Julian Disterhoft of Movement Bielefeld (@movementbielefeld) is on the Passive Hang podcast! Julian runs a movement school in Bielefeld, Germany, teaching a generalised practice on many different subjects and aspects of movement. He’s learnt from many of the very best in the field, travelling the world over to seek, practice and research. A few months back, Julian came to Austral

#83: Benjamin Byfield, Meditative Monkey: Fusing the work of Gurdjieff and Movement Culture

Oct 04 2023 128 mins  
Benjamin Byfield @meditativemonkey is on the Passive Hang! Ben is a dear friend of mine, who runs the Meditative Monkey, a Movement Studio based in Central Coast, Australia. You may recognise him from some of the Passive Hang video logs and previous episode #48 - he is a regular accomplice to movement workshops, and we’ve spent many nights discussing movement and beyond. Ben is c

#82: Simon Thakur: Ancestral Movement - Physical Culture and the Human Evolution

Sep 19 2023 123 mins  
Simon Thakur, founder of Ancestral Movement (@ancestralmovement, www.ancestralmovement.com) is on the Passive Hang! Ancestral Movement is Simon’s life work, practices and studies of human development through the lens of evolutionary biology, anthropology, comparative anatomy, neuroscience and whatever Simon has digested. And Simon has digested a lot! Originally from New Zealand,

#81: Craig Mallett: Da Xuan - Diving into the Big Mystery of Chinese Internal Martial Arts

Apr 03 2023 105 mins  
Craig Mallett (@craigmallettdx) features on the Passive Hang podcast! Craig is a teacher based in the Sunshine Coast, Australia. He was originally part of a Canberra community featuring Simon Thakur and Kit Laughlin, associated with past podcast guest Emmet Louis. He is now a teacher and practitioner of the Da Xuan Daoist tradition. Da Xuan - “The Big Mystery”. It’s in the na

#80: David Wilson, Oldscoolmoves: Thinking differently about growing older - redefining age perceptions and physical capability

Mar 23 2023 75 mins  
David Wilson (@oldscoolmoves) is on the Passive Hang! David is a movement coach, anti-ageism advocate and educator, based in Toronto, Canada. David teaches at @spiritloft and online. David’s challenges our societal narratives around age-ing and what it means to become old. David used to be an English teacher, before committing himself to physical practice. Letting go of a sedenta

#79: Stanislav Kazanovich: Building the Movement Freaks community and improvisational groundwork

Mar 07 2023 89 mins  
@stanslavkaza, founder of @movementfreaks is on the Passive Hang! Stanislav is a movement teacher based in Herzeliya, Israel. Stanislav shares his story from wrestling during adolescence, to being exposed to hand balancing from Odelia Goldschmidt, and surprisingly - reluctantly adopting a broader practice, starting first with locomotion and then other subjects via the Ido Portal me

#78: Tasha Louie: Recovering from Spinal Fracture and exploring unconventional strength skills

Feb 25 2023 94 mins  
@tasha.louie is on the Passive Hang! Tasha is a personal trainer teaching in the San Francisco Bay Area and also an online coach. She is an incredible practitioner who explores creativity within strength work. Tasha’s ability to exert strength in all sorts of ranges shows the potential of what you can achieve. Tasha just recently went through a traumatic fracture of her spine. Sh

#77 Ron Dobrovinsky: A Dancer’s Guide to Flexibility and Application Specific Training

Jan 08 2023 88 mins  
Ron Dobrovinsky @rondobrovinsky, founder of @swingitisrael is on the Passive Hang! Ron is a dancer, teacher and personal trainer based in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is an amazing performer, who shares a lot of his own personal process in developing capacities he desires for dancing. I highly recommend you check out his Instagram page. What is a dancer’s take on physical development? Ro

#76 Erdi Babili: Success in Online Coaching, Spearfishing and How to learn the Press to Handstand

Nov 20 2022 116 mins  
Erdi Babili, @learningtohuman joins us on the Passive Hang to talk about his journey from personal trainer, gym owner, to online coach for bodyweight strength, flexibility and hand balancing. Erdi shares wonderful insights on his page, I highly recommend you check it out - with a lot of nuance on the details which matter. I love Erdi’s story because he has achieved everything wit

#75: Juan Rueda: The Ido Portal Mentorship and establishing the Melbourne Movement Practice

Nov 02 2022 125 mins  
Juan Rueda (@huan_lueda) shares a wonderful conversation on the Passive Hang podcast! Juan is a movement teacher in Melbourne, Australia, and is a former Ido Portal mentorship student. I recently connected with Juan in person and attended a few of his movement classes. All of them have been a mind-boggling experience of opening new doors and sneak peeks of how many more layers the