Edward Yu is a Feldenkrais Practitioner®, former competitive runner & triathlete, current bagua, taichi & fitness instructor and author of The Art of Slowing Down: A Sense-Able Approach to Running.
From his early 20′s to his late 30′s, Edward taught English in China, Taiwan and Japan. During his time overseas, he studied Taichi and Bagua along with Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Tianjin College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. To supplement all of these, Edward also studied enough kickboxing, Western boxing and judo to know that sometimes, it is better to run for your life.
Edward’s interest in how people learn and process information has led him to bring the disparate fields of martial arts, dance, somatics, psychology, cognitive science and neurophysiology into both his teaching and writing. The impetus for The Art of Slowing Down, for example, came years after Edward quit running and triathloning and discovered that conventional approaches to training are not so effective in turning people into better athletes (though they are quite effective in making them discouraged and neurotic).
In his free time Edward likes to roll around on the floor, walk in circles and stare into space.
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