Paul spent the last 12 years developing Heart® and HeartMoves® using his local classes as a laboratory, and mountains of NY for inspiration. As an active inventor in the Mind/Body/Heart field, Paul developed the Movement Technology ™ for using the Heart and consists of solo (with both one or two Hearts), and the partner and group modalities for connection. The movements can be done by anyone and are fun, accessible and effective.

Simultaneously, he lay the foundation for the business by writing the patents and intellectual property, while working with locally US based prototyping and manufacturing resources in the Hudson Valley Ecosystem — all necessary to make the products.

So…..YES! Now, there is literally a way for you to create coherence for yourself — the “Mind/Body/Heart Connection.”

For more than 40 years,  Paul has been one of the inventors and pioneers in the field of peak performance and the mind/body connection. As a creative and an inventor, he’s generated new ideas and products, striving to make sophisticated advancements accessible to everyone. 

As a pioneer in this field melding inventions and human movement, he’s an accelerator of the industry that has emerged around it. He first became interested in these ideas in the ‘80s seeing the overlaps and striving to blend peak performance, flow state, creativity, healing, meditation, yoga and dance as training adjuncts in his 33 competitive years in collegiate and freestyle wrestling. In wrestling, refined techniques, improvisation, (and remaining calm under pressure), are all vital to success.

Looking for ways to improve the training process, he invented both physical “tools” and specific “movements and modalities” — Paul is now known for inventing both SmartBells® and the Heart®. 

As a business founder and entrepreneur, he knows the challenges we all face staying true to ourselves; and resisting the temptation of labels, shortcuts and commercialism. In the mid ‘90s, Paul took the book “Patent it Yourself” out of the Ellenville Public Library and became a self-taught inventor.

Paul’s patents, products, and innovations in human movement with objects have become seminal contributions pioneering “Flow State applied to Weight Training” and the way chi moves in the body.

In these uncertain times, Paul sees the need for NEW systems and tools to enhance wellness and connection; AND people’s ability to get along with each other. All are now imperatives for our species survival.

At this emergent intersection, Paul is striving to make a contribution.

How did this happen? At 18 Paul had already been training all year round running, weight training and  wrestling and it was already taking a toll.  Paul took up yoga and eastern modalities of health and wellness as tools for injury prevention and rehabilitation along with pouring over the literature in the fields of healing, spirituality, and peak performance and becoming acutely aware of the overlap and cross pollination in these fields. This became a natural path leading connecting the dots to explorations of the principles of peak physical performance, and the essential underpinnings lying emotional and personal growth. In the ‘80s this was new and esoteric material, now these ideas are exploding with excitement, potential (and the perils of consumerism) in the mainstream gestalt connected world wide online.

As a believer in mentorship, Paul sought teachers in many realms putting his explorations into practice on the wrestling mat and in an expansive life. Paul’s followed his passions exploring interests in spiritual meditative disciplines, Yoga, Tantra, Flow State, along with Athletics, Art and Design. He also maintained a quiet non-professional passion for building small structures to explore how humans inhabit space, Nature and Architecture.

As a wrestler, Paul was 2-Time NYS High School Champion (Huntingtion HS with Coach Lou Giani), and co-captain of Harvard’s team in college (‘82, ‘83). After graduating he trained with Dan Gable and the Hawkeye Wrestling Club in ‘84 and won the National Olympic Qualifying Tournament, and was first alternate on the US Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Team. He was a member of USA Wrestling’s National Team through the 90’s and was Cerro Pelado Champion in Cuba and two time Maccabiah Games Champion in Israel. He went on to be the assistant coach to Jim Peckham at Harvard. Always pushing the envelope, Paul, in 1989 he founded “The Harvard Women’s Wrestling Club” (the first women’s college club in America), the Cambridge Kids Wreslting Club, and hosted his own sleep away camp in the mountains of NY.

Prior to Heart®, Paul invented the revolutionary functional training system SmartBells®,  and founded its parent company, THINKFIT®. A diverse user base was created that included the US Navy SEALS, Crunch Fitness, Equinox, the Yankees, Mets, White Sox, Stanford GSB Executive Program Nonprofit Leaders, the Kaufman Foundation, Benedictine Hospital Oncology Support, and Pfizer’s National Depression Awareness Campaign.