Nathan Schechter, ACSM CPT, PN1-NC, CYT works as a teacher, trainer and coach helping people build strong bodies, flexible minds and lives they love. He applies both art and science in helping people use exercise, movement and other tools to enrich their lives, build skills and solve problems.
Nathan found early success in the performing arts as a young person, performing in professional television, radio and theater. He worked with well known celebrities and pursued a career in acting.
After college he helped to build a start-up healthcare company into 12 health centers, 2 pharmacies and an ambulance service, as well as working in large law firms and multinational companies.
After discovering his “gateway drug” of yoga, he began a passionate and in-depth study of the practice that spanned many cities, countries, and styles of yoga, including many of the flowing, athletic styles of yoga such as: Ashtanga, Vinyasa and Bikram. Teaching yoga since 2005, he is a twice certified yoga teacher with over 10,000 hours of teaching experience, and formerly was an ERYT-200 for 13 years and a YACEP for 2 years.
Aware that the mind and body defy any one modality, Nathan trained in Shiatsu Massage, and he began an in-depth investigation of strength training and was certified by the American College of Sports Medicine in personal training in 2014. Realizing the importance of nutrition, he was certified by Precision Nutrition as a nutrition coach in 2023.
As a mover, Nathan has practiced many styles of movement from boxing to the martial arts to different forms of dance and created a style of movement called Mind Body Freedom.
He has helped enthusiasts, mind body professionals, athletes and regular folks learn to use movement, exercise, nutrition and other modalities to help themselves - and their patients or clients - learn how to eat, train and move better to achieve their goals and overcome their obstacles.
He believes in the importance of relationship and environment in teaching and learning mind body skills and has gathered a wide range of experiences from different modalities and cultures. A few examples include:
Training at the London School of Hand Balancing and Acrobatics, Movement X and Upper Body Strength with Ido Portal in Denmark, and Fighting Monkey in Belgium.
He has experience studying and working with groups involved in the practice and facilitation of Nonviolent Communication in the USA, UK and Europe.
He practiced Flying Low and Passing Through with David Zambrano at Movement Research in New York City, Medical Qigong with Michael Leone in New Hampshire and trained in Craniosacral Therapy with Upledger Institute International.
He continues to learn, practice and refine, as he knows:
Excellence is the refinement of imperfect attempts.