Brian is a Bodyworker, a Forrest Yoga Guardian Teacher, and a hands-on teacher of Anatomy and Myo-Fascial Release Massage. He is a father of two amazing teenagers, a passionate gardener and a loves to learn and play any musical instrument he gets his hands on.  

BODYWORK He has 23 years experience doing pain-specific Structural Massage and 20 years teaching Forrest Yoga in Los Angeles. Brian was a Head Teacher at the Shiatsu Massage School of California in Santa Monica from 2006-2014, teaching Anatomy & Physiology, Pain & Orthopedic Evaluation, Deep-Tissue Massage, and Advanced Myo-Fascial Anatomy & Treatment Courses.

Brian trained under the tutelage of Bodywork Master Dr. Vincent Medici from 2001-2009 and considers this time the foundation of his approach to working with pain. It was Dr. Medici’s original vision for Brian to combine Bodywork with Yoga when he advised him to do a Teacher Training with Ana Forrest back in 2002. Since 2010, Brian has travelled globally seeking skilled bodyworkers and their teachers and often their teacher’s teacher, in pursuit of learning more and unwinding childhood spine and pelvis rotational patterns in his own body..

YOGA In 2007, Ana Forrest asked Brian to become a Level 5 “Guardian Teacher”. As a Guardian, he has committed to Mentoring new Teachers and to carrying on the Forrest Yoga Legacy of Healing to future generations. Ana Forrest taught Brian how to see the beautiful complexity of each person’s biomechanical compensations and how every body needs something slightly or quite different to heal and get out of pain. In 2013, Brian was hospitalized with “Valley Fever” (coccydiomycosis) which took him 12 months to fully recuperate. During this time he learned how to work through his own body with arthritic and degenerative joint conditions. Now his Forrest Yoga & Bodywork classes are specifically informed and geared towards working with pain and injuries. 

Brian’s most current project is the YogaBodyworkers Training, co-taught with fellow Forrest Yoga Guardian Jambo Truong. These 10-Day courses are designed for life-development, enhancing breath, bio-mechanics, and our relationship to touch through the mediums of Ceremony, Forrest Yoga, & MyoFascial Caress. This course is taught world-wide to people from all backgrounds who want to learn how to help others by learning how to treat themselves exceptionally well. 

GARDEN My passion is to regenerate small patches of land by growing, growing, GROWING many different things. I am marveled at how much life will flourish if just a little care & attention is given. My process has been trial and failure, seeing how things grow in the varied microclimates that surround a small single family house in Los Angeles. And microclimates is the key! There is so much that can be done to work with the the forces of Nature to enhance the growing conditions for life all around us. And not just plant life, but for bees & every kind of insect, birds, and importantly human connections with each other and Nature. I think of this as Earth Bodywork, or bodywork that is being done to the Earth for the benefit of Earth and all its inhabitants. :)