Chris Hendricks has over 33 years of experience and has been practicing bodywork since 1990. He studied at the Boulder College of Massage Therapy and then completed training, under Judith Aston personally, the founder of Aston-Patterning®. He’s an accomplished martial artist of over 40 years training, with black belts in 4 separate styles, a lecturer and a former teacher at the Esalen Institute and massage schools in Oregon and Washington, an ergonomic consultant with hospitals, logistics companies, and television series.
Chris grew up with an interest in bodies and how they worked. One of the games he used to play with his mother while they were out was “what’s happening in that person’s body?” People-watching remains, to this day, one of Chris’ favorite activities (especially at airports and malls).
Chris started practicing martial arts at the age of 13, becoming the youngest person in his school to earn a black belt, in Isshin Ryu karate. In the middle of his karate training, Chris discovered traditional Japanese Ju Jitsu and fell in love. Privileged to have trained with Robert Mickey Sensei, Professor George Sherman and Professor George Kirby, amongst many others, Chris has earned black belts of high rank in two different styles of Ju Jitsu. Currently ranked at 7th degree.