Edward Yu is a Certified Feldenkrais Practitionersm, former runner and triathlete, and creator of Radically Transformative Running (RTF) and Radically Transformative Fitness (RTF). After receiving his Bachelor of Science degree from Penn State University, he worked in Japan as an English and Chinese teacher. In 1996, he moved to China to study Traditional Chinese Medicine, Taichi, Bagua and martial arts. His interest in how people learn through movement has led him to bring disparate fields such as Taichi, martial arts, dance, kinesiology, Feldenkrais, psychology and cognitive science into his teaching.
The impetus for RTR and RTF came years after he quit running and doing triathlons and discovered that trying harder doesn’t always work so well to make you a better athlete, though it can work very well to make you extremely tired, discouraged and neurotic.
Edward has studied authentic movement and contact improvisation with Stefanie Cohen and Mark Koenig; Continuum with Cass Phelps and Impro Theatresports with Lorne Greene.
These days you can find him trying to roust up groups of people to play with breakdancing, storytelling and dance-martial arts collaborations.
Hello Edward,
It is so inspiring to see your video’s. I very much enjoyed working with you last Saturday at Zeb and Nina’s house. Thank you for your beautiful words and for the inspirational text by Joseph Campbell, i have already sent it to a number of friends. I feel like it gives people my age a beautiful and positive perspective on life.
I would like to stay in contact with you, i hope this is ok.
Thank you
Vanessa