Preface Petals in the Sun was written in honor of the neurodivergent children I worked with for over a decade and a half in the martial arts industry...

Pereira addresses “the physiology of misalignment.” As ADHD’ers, we were detrimentally placed in an environment unconducive to our abilities, which “triggers the body’s stress response, activating the sympathetic...

In the summer of 2020 I discovered myself, like many of us, trapped inside my apartment. As one who relied on exercise for my mental health, all my...

Owning and/or managing a dojo is hard, but if honored, if you do it the right way, it is so worth it.  In 2007 I left my job...

To understand what David and Johnathan were enduring, one must understand the manic dilemma as a matter of voltage, as Jamison asserts, “The sheer force of life, the...