In this short film, Stan delves deep into the essence of his practice, unraveling the multifaceted aspects that shape his approach to movement and self-expression

Phylosophy

“We create from continuity, the passion for movement, practice, music and inspiration, these without practice are randomly suffled, but with time and perseverance the you can decode a language that primarily speaks to your heart”.

Movement has a lot of meanings to me. The interesting thing is, the longer the journey, the more meanings I find to keep going.

One of the most precious things that I see in the long term, while I have been a sponge of learning of different disciplines, I always take with me what feels the best for me and my body and make it truely my own.

Taking the information, dedicating my life to it, having faith that everything will fall in to place at another time in life.

These answers have been truely given back to me, and every day I receive more of them.

From a bigger picture, there unfolds an authentic language. Which is ungoing changing and endlessly interesting to me.

Throughout Movement I can express myself fully.

There has always been a feeling deep inside of me, from a very young age, a burning light which wanted to unravel. Although during my childhood I wasn’t aware about this and on how to do this. But when I started my journey discovered that this feeling got satisfied the most when either I was practicing or performing.

There is an ongoing relationship with this core feeling and me. It tells me that I am doing the right thing in my life.

Also something clear is that, throughout the hardest times of life, where everything seemed hopeless and fallen apart, therefore the only thing I could do was looking from the deepest core within myself, I always found movement.

This is something what continuously comes back. As much that I’m sure that this is my life path.

When I see personal growth within a practice, I see someone who has overcome his personal battles. Which shows for me our true power.

Throughout the journey I found that movement is a way to connect with others, sharing the same passion, understanding, exchanging. It makes it accessible for me to participate actively in life. Instead of watching and observing.

Spiritually I believe that movement is the path of the most authentic self.

As it has a healing effect as well. Body work and expansion of body awareness shows me that we are actually able to release negative emotions (traumas) which are stored up in the body.

Balancing body, mind and spirit.

Background, History & Education

Stan has been into movement and dance since 2011. He started off with Breakdance as a kid, after the first few years of development he started doing Hiphop streetstyle. He participated in tournaments for several years, performed with music artists and made theatre performance experiences. During this time, he also started working as a teacher.

During his journey with mostly choreographed performances and competitions he discovered and developed improvisation/freestyle dance. This is what interested him the most. He always kept on practicing and studying it.

When he graduated from high school the cycle of tournaments and performances became more quiet. He took a gap year and started travelling in South-East Asia and Australia. Without a plan coming to Australia, very naturally, he ended up working as a street artist.

During this time he started his authorship, he published his first book ‘Lake Toba’ (currently only available in Dutch) which is a non-fiction travel story, where he almost lost his life when he got caught by a sea storm in Sumatra,Indonesia. The book is a real thriller. Beside the adventurous tragedy, his phylosophy of life is visible in the book and has inspired many.

After his experience in Indonesia and Australia, Stan went back to live in Amsterdam. Beside dancing, Stan has always been interested in the physical body and how to develope athleticsm. He went to college and studied Sports & Movement. After graduation he followed multiple courses in Personal Training and Coaching. During his study he already started working as a Personal Trainer.

He started using himself as an experiment to use the knowledge that he gained on himself. He developed training methods to become a better dancer and mover. He worked with hundreds of different kind of people with a variated kind of goals. From athletes till amateur sports practitioners, dancers, movers but also people who want to work on their overall health and wellbeing.

Stan is a Dancer and Movement Practitioner. An Acrobatical and House dancer. The Movement practice is an Interdisciplinair practice with origins from Capoeira, Contemporary Dance and Gymnastics. As a foundation of the practices stays conditioning, training systems that he developed throughout the years.

Forever, the journey goes on. His main goal is to endlessly search for his most authentic self within his movement practice and to help people with what he learns on the way.

Certifications

As of meaning that Certifications are not showing all the knowledge and abilities someone has, an overview could give a basic insight of some specialisms. As here are courses which were accomplished in the past:

• Chivo Functional Trainer
• Chivo Health Coach
• AALO Personal Trainer Level 1,2,3,4
• AALO Medical Trainer
• AALO Nutrition Consultant
• Het COI Calisthenics Personal Trainer
• Yoga Teachers College – Breathing Coach
• La Casa Shambala – 200HR YTT

Further trainings/seminars attained:

• Kinstretch
• Functional Range Conditioning
• David Zambrano Flying Low & Passing Through
• Tom Weksler Movement Archery
• Ido Portal Method
• Fighting Monkey
• Wim Hof Method