Scott Cashins
Founder and coach
Scott began his professional career immersed in science while completing a PhD in ecology and evolution. On the side he was teaching handstands and partner acrobatics. The teaching won.
Over the past 18 years he has followed movement across strength, calisthenics, handbalancing, mobility, flexibility, natural movement and partner acrobatics. He is certified in Functional Range Conditioning, Functional Range Assessment and Kinstretch, in yoga and meditation through Anuttara Ashram, in Thai massage through the Sunshine Network, and in MovNat. He ran the Tasmanian Acro Flyaway for nine years and co-founded Threads Tasmania.
His teaching has been shaped by study with Fighting Monkey, Rafe Kelley (Evolve Move Play), Karin Avi (Motion Haifa), Nil Teisener, Kit Laughlin (Stretch Therapy) and Pichest Boonthumme, alongside years of study with handstand teachers internationally. The work of Ido Portal has also been an important influence.
Over time, the different threads of his practice have begun to illuminate one another. What connects them is a curiosity about what helps people become more capable, adaptable and connected, alongside an anatomical and evolutionary lens for understanding what holds up and why. Scott brings these relationships into his teaching. This is what Totum is built around: different ways of working with the body brought together into a practice that is coherent, useful and alive.
He is interested in building physical capacity without losing the qualities that make movement nourishing, and in developing practices that keep unfolding over a lifetime rather than chasing the next quick fix.
If you want the thinking behind how I teach, it is all written down in The Practice.