Dr. Jim D

About

Jim's fascination with the how the human body is built and functions began at an early age. He has been studying anatomy and biomechanics for over 45 years. His studies have included Circus Arts, Tai Chi, Alexander Technique, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and a variety of manual healing arts. He has been teaching functional movement and circus arts since 1980. And for the past 25 years has been an instructor at Circus Center San Francisco where he teaches trampoline, acrobatics and his popular Physical Limitation Elimination class. In addition, Jim maintains a private practice in Berkeley focusing on physical skill development, neuromusculoskeletal healing through the integration of Asian manual therapies, orthopedic and osteopathic bodywork and rehabilitation exercises. He specializes in bringing effective and sustainable approaches to athletic training and teaching related workshops and continuing education seminars to instructors of all movement disciplines and manual therapies.