I spent my first 18 years immersed in the cold, wet, primitive routines of animal husbandry on our family's pre-industrial, pre-global warming, mountainside farm — enlivened by ever-present winds and frequent freezing gales from the sometimes visible, cold and clashing Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea. There was no alternative, and we knew no better world. I graduated as an engineer before escaping to the US, where sunlight, warmth, and dry air were (and still are) in abundant supply.
I had a background in Kung Fu, Tai Chi, Chinese Wand, Life Energy practices and engineering before completing massage training. Susanna and I together built a Pearl Street wellness clinic in Boulder before we graduated from the Rolf Institute and School of Structural Integration in 1989.
During this period, as we established our bodywork practices, we continued our training with Jeff Krock and Pamela Lendzion, the founders of Life Energy Fundamentals — a training in heart presence, clear mind, grounding, ordinary and extra-ordinary perception, and the command of life force.
In 1998 we were both certified as advanced teachers of this work. Jeff's understanding — that the subtle and energetic dimensions are the origin of most physical, emotional, and spiritual strengths and consequently imbalances — has been an overlay on most everything we do.
As I much later became engaged in the world of ancestral healing, I found I had deep resources in my own multigeneration upbringing and in the rich vein of historical trauma that underlies Irish culture. No country is spared trauma — but Ireland has its own special blend, fermented over 800 years. I grew up inside it. The repression, the silence, the hidden past — it was the water we swam in.
The Returning Series is the integration of my explorations: Rolfing's systematic map of the body's connective tissue, Breathwork's emotional and energetic dimensions, EFT's direct access to the nervous system, ancestral healing's recognition that we carry our lineage in our tissue, and the consciousness framework that makes sense of why any of this works at all.
[Draft — Paul to rewrite] Two Suns Rising is the movement side of the same journey: Kung Fu, Tai Chi, Chinese Wand, Rolfing and Life Energy Fundamentals, distilled into a daily practice anyone can learn.
“Heart is the part of you that lives free of fear and doubt
Jeff Krock, Life Energy Fundamentals
and is immune to the chaos of the external world.
Heart changes everything and everyone around you.
It is your greatest gift to the world.”Paul and Susanna Reynolds trained directly with Jeff Krock for twelve years, certified as advanced teachers in 1998.
Background & Training
- 1977Kung FuThe Friary Hall, old Wexford town, with Dennis Davis. Training and sparring from age 15.
- to 1988EngineeringGraduated as an engineer in Ireland, then worked in Albuquerque, Atlanta and Alabama, building things, big things by Irish standards.
- 1982–88The body, consciousness and healingMassage therapy, early somatic and grounding exploration, including grounding with Dr. Steve and Deborah in Albuquerque.
- 1986Tai Chi and Chinese Wand ExerciseTai Chi in Albuquerque with Patricia, in her living room. Later, Chinese Wand Exercise. A daily practice ever since.
- 1986–98Life Energy FundamentalsTwelve years of direct study with Jeff Krock and Pamela Lendzion. Advanced Teacher Certification, 1998. Heart presence, clear mind, grounding, ordinary and extra-ordinary perception, and the command of life force.
- 1989Rolf Institute of Structural IntegrationGraduated with Susanna, having built a Pearl Street wellness clinic together in Boulder. Studied with master teachers of the Ida P. Rolf method.
- 1996SeattleEnjoying Northwest living ever since.
- ongoingSoma-Energy PracticeStructural bodywork integrated with energetic, emotional and consciousness-based approaches.
- ongoingEFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques)Practitioner and integrator, applied to limiting beliefs, ancestral patterns and somatic holding.
- ongoingAncestral Healing and Intergenerational TraumaDeveloped through personal lineage work and the writing of True Time Travel: Healing the Ancestral Line.
- 2026Two Suns RisingKung Fu, Tai Chi, Chinese Wand, Rolfing and Life Energy Fundamentals, brought together as a daily practice: seven energy centers, seven seals, and the 63-Day Challenge.
- currentLicensed and practicingWashington State Massage License. Practicing in Seattle with a small number of clients.
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