Jesse Danger

Jesse Danger I use movement to explore the boundaries of the soul. I run the Movement Creative. I love to write.

Parkour has become an internal martial art for me. A spiritual and self development practice. My challenges around doubt...
08/25/2026

Parkour has become an internal martial art for me. A spiritual and self development practice. My challenges around doubt and fear, shaped by decades of physical practice, now look like:

Starting a center for passionate learning and community with Roo: Wander Home
Stepping up my leadership and vision at The Movement Creative for our next chapter
Becoming a volunteer firefighter
Learning how to use a tractor and a chainsaw
Hosting company retreats and cohosting weekends of facilitation, fall resiliency to writing to woodworking to adventurous storytelling to “nothing”
A rigorous self reflective writing practice at toloveonetrue.com
Perfecting focaccia and learning to cook healthy, organic, delicious food for groups of people
Developing a personal development framework I’ve now facilitated for a few dozen people, with beautiful results

Movement was my first language. Tompkins is a love because I was told early on tall people aren’t good at underbars. I did a lot of things because people said I couldn’t. That has its issues. It also made some version of impossible visible.

When I say parkour is a spiritual practice, that’s what I mean. Finding a way from point a to point b in my ecology of thoughts.

Getting a vendor number and school contract took hours of meetings, to build a city funded program that lets kids who struggled elsewhere earn high school credit training outside with us.

I was that kid. Kicked out of one school, didn’t put in the work to graduate another. My passion showed up when I trained in the city with friends. I saw I could learn, and steer my own learning.

Point a: a kid who didn’t believe in the system, who loved moving in new ways with friends.
Point b: understanding the value my experience can bring to others and developing a willingness to do the hard work to bring it to the world.

A system I once rejected and fought, now navigated with respect and dignity, is the obstacle turned teacher.

A life of embracing challenge as a venerable teacher.

If you’re reading this, you’ve likely been part of my journey. Thank you for loving me into being.

Keep chill, train hard

cameos of conspirators
Tompkins filmed by the master AMAKU aka Adam

This Viking Weekend, we’re finishing the frame on a twenty person sweat lodge at Vandrar Hem. By hand guided by master b...
08/13/2026

This Viking Weekend, we’re finishing the frame on a twenty person sweat lodge at Vandrar Hem. By hand guided by master builder Evan Beyer. Fire built and tended, the frame gets raised, and by the end we sweat together in something we built together.

We live scattered. Notifications, tabs, and tasks pull at us in a hundred directions before lunch. A weekend like this asks something different. One group, one place, one task, one beam at a time.

We build things to last so we become people who last. A frame raised by hand becomes a body that trusts what it can do. A weekend of shared work becomes friendships and community that hold weight.

A place built with care becomes a place people keep coming back to.

Secluded in the woods, about an hour from the city. Fresh focaccia baked daily. Materials carefully selected. Hands on tools, effort aligned.

Aug 21–23, Friday noon to Sunday 5pm. All meals and lodging included. Link in bio to sign up.

A place where being in time felt more important than being on time.
08/11/2026

A place where being in time felt more important than being on time.

A week in Denmark filled with movement and talks and chill times and board games. I can count on IG and Gerlev to remind...
08/11/2026

A week in Denmark filled with movement and talks and chill times and board games.

I can count on IG and Gerlev to remind me of who I am and what’s important.

New post on toloveonetrue.com. Full text in slides above.
06/04/2026

New post on toloveonetrue.com. Full text in slides above.

When we look at a tree, contorted by its unmet needs we don’t often imagine all the ways we could fix it. This is as muc...
05/04/2026

When we look at a tree, contorted by its unmet needs we don’t often imagine all the ways we could fix it. This is as much about humanizing a tree as it is about treeanizing a human.

Full post on toloveonetrue.com
05/02/2026

Full post on toloveonetrue.com

Full article on toloveonetrue.com
05/01/2026

Full article on toloveonetrue.com

I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember. I started this project at twenty one, in the wake of a devastating brea...
05/01/2026

I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember. I started this project at twenty one, in the wake of a devastating breakup. To Love One True was born from that time, from the part of me that was learning to keep going when I had all but given up.

The Movement Creative came from the same place.
While movement has always been such a large part of my identity, this has been humming along in the background, and more recently the two have inextricably converged into something that feels like me.

Movement has become more often a place for reflection. And writing has become more often a way to navigate the obstacles in my mental landscape.

This poem is about revisioning a broken promise. About how “forever,” said in one moment, can feel like a nuisance, and in another, can break your heart.

When I moved up to .hem I had no idea how I was going to make it work. To be honest, I still don’t.

I had a fantasy that I could sell my writing, so I submitted to a publisher. They said it seemed like deeply personal writing, better shared within my circle, and that it would not be appropriate for the mainstream market.

It stung. And yet it didn’t stop me from continuing to write deeply personal things and share them within my circle.

I write the words that are the medicine I need, and I can’t shake the feeling that they might be medicine for others too.

www.toloveonetrue.com

A winter at .hem . Some pictures by and . Some vibes by the wonderful people who have supported this project so far by ...
02/09/2025

A winter at .hem . Some pictures by and . Some vibes by the wonderful people who have supported this project so far by coming to events and by changing the shape, physically mentally and socially of the space up here.

This morning I was up at 6 to clear last night’s snow. I made some coffee, and started the sauna. I was in the place beyond choice - a loving obligation.

I haven’t posted much because I am afraid I will not be met or known in these changes.I haven’t gone to as many jams, I haven’t trained as much “parkour”. In the past year I’ve had a major surgery, learned to work a tractor, a chainsaw, and have chopped more wood than in the rest of my life. I’ve fixed plumbing and electric and painted.

I have done what is perhaps the healthiest thing I ever have - I have put myself in a place where movement is required in a tangible way. I learned a long time ago that we could be strong to be useful and it took some mental gymnastics to realize that it may go equally well to be useful to be strong.

What I keep realizing is that doing new movement things, with friends, never ceases to make me feel more alive. What I’ve craved is the timeless nature of not only the training sessions of old, but of the work I did as a mover in my teens and early twenties. Happening in tandem was a drive to do until it was done, not a choice or consideration, not a judgment or a need, an easy resting into resilience.

“Parkour” has as a collective definition gotten further from me, the brilliance that I see on this app and in the NY community never ceases to amaze me. I still crave that. And deeper than that, my identity, once called parkour, and maybe by any other name - has more than ever become centered on embracing challenge, learning new things, and building community.

As my fears in the world seem to become only more realized, as does my conviction that getting people together outside doing something new and challenging and interesting, is a glue that binds me deeply to my existence and equally a glue that binds community together.

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