About Coach Jesse

I’m Coach Jesse — creator of the TAOFit Method, movement coach, educator, and lifelong student of the body. I’ve been coaching for nearly 27 years, and for the past 15+ years, my focus has been helping people navigate chronic pain and injury.

I was a high school and college athlete — I played varsity basketball for 2½ years at Austin College, a small Division III school in Sherman, Texas. Basketball taught me discipline, resilience, and how to meet challenge with intention. I learned the difference between being hurt and being injured — and how consistent practice and hard work shape lifelong transformation.

My journey hasn’t been linear. It’s been shaped by six knee surgeries, multiple concussions, persistent pain, and the slow, often frustrating process of learning how to move with more awareness — and more intelligently.

I’ve been navigating injuries most of my life — sprains, dislocations, concussions — the byproducts of playing hard, training hard, and rarely slowing down. When I was 19 — a sophomore in college — I crashed a motorcycle at high speed. It didn’t break any bones, but it anchored an already growing pattern: ignoring signals, pushing through pain, and disconnecting from my body. That crash marked the beginning of the end of my college basketball career — and, in many ways, closed the door on the game that had shaped so much of my identity. But it also opened another: the path toward movement education, and eventually, back to the game — not as a player, but as a coach and guide for the next generation.

I’ve been the high-performing athlete. I’ve been the patient. I’ve been the person who wondered if I’d ever feel strong again. And I’ve been the guy who once believed movement was something you conquered — not something you listened to.

The TAOFit Method didn’t come from a textbook. It was built from lived experience, sharpened through thousands of hours with clients, and shaped by the mentorship of brilliant teachers. Gary Ward of Anatomy in Motion shifted my understanding of gait mechanics, while Joseph Schwartz of Dynamic Neuromuscular Assessment (DNA) reset the entire lens through which I see movement.

My foundation in exercise science and massage therapy is just the beginning. I’ve spent years deepening my studies in human development (from infancy to adulthood), evolutionary biology, neuroscience, psychology, behavior, and sociocultural systems — all in service of understanding what it means to be human — how we move, adapt, and make sense of our bodies in a changing world.

I’m especially drawn to the forgotten patterns of natural human movement — how we crawl, walk, fall, and get back up — and how embryology reveals the deep architecture of how we’re wired to move.

The TAOFit Method is the convergence of all of that: my body’s story, my clients’ journeys, the wisdom of great teachers, and an ongoing curiosity about what it means to be a moving, sensing, adapting human being.

This isn’t a performance program. It’s a return path — through awareness, breath, exploration, discovery, play, and flow. To your story. To your body. To you.