About
Hi, I’m Cyrus.
I am a human being with an unquenchable interest to understand the universe and everything in it.
My journey began with a childhood filled with the question “why?”. Through my youth, my curiosity led me to study science, which taught me the most about the world, but also how to ask and answer my questions. This eventually culminated in my graduation from university in Physics, and eventually working at Quantum Measurement and Control Lab in the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, building interfaces and running quantum chemistry simulations on quantum computers.
While studying institutionally, I began my second realm of exploration into the world of the movement practice. After an early youth of playing sports (football, roller skating, swimming, racket sports), I stumbled into the worlds of breakdancing and parkour. The movements captured my imagination in a way that nothing had ever done before, and propelled me into devoted learning of these arts. As the years passed, my obsessions grew to encompass many other disciples across the movement landscape, from strength and flexibility training, dance, athletics, and gymnastics, to climbing, calisthenics, capoeira, jiu-jitsu, aerial arts, acrobatics and various circus arts to name a few. My search for them led me across my city, country, and eventually across Europe and America, learning from teachers, practitioners and everyone else along the way.
Through these practices, I discovered a way to experience and understand the world in a more personal and visceral way, and in turn, understand more about myself. I learned that knowledge meant nothing without direct experience and application, and took it upon myself to share this way of learning by beginning to teach. I eventually left academia and took up teaching full time, founding the Mumbai Parkour and Movement Academy with some of my closest friends and fellow practitioners. Since 2018, I have continued to share my research and developments with my students both in person and online.
I also occasionally work in the film stunt industry, featuring and choreographing action sequences for projects and brands to create and portray authentic movement on screen. You can see more of my film related work here.
My true goal is to make life an adventure.
If you would like to be a part of it, you can email me at contactcyruskhan(at)gmail.com