Kesh has been interested in sports, training, and learning from a young age. From playing national-level youth cricket in England to football and martial arts, while eventually gaining a scholarship to attend Westminster School, one of England’s most prestigious learning institutions, he has long valued the synergy of a healthy mind in a healthy body.

This synergy was challenged during his time studying at Oxford University, where the ill effects of an overly sedentary and academic life started to become visible. He wanted to keep learning, but he wanted to learn through movement, practice, and physical experience. From then on, it became clear that a life spent helping others move better as well as trust in their own bodies and abilities, would be a life well spent.

Through over a decade of immersing himself in disciplines ranging from competitive stick fighting to kettlebells, gymnastic strength, boxing, mobility, and a vast array of sports, he honed his craft in the days before the proliferation of the internet and the ease of access to information, when you had to travel and learn directly from masters of their craft.

From the training and coaching side, things were going according to plan, having already helped hundreds of people. It was only through a chance encounter with Kaye, the founder of Restore Human, that the final piece of the puzzle fell into place: the importance of nature and our bodies’ connection to land and sea.

As a London denizen for over 30 years, going on huge journeys, from a 170 km canoe trip with the Restore Human team across the open ocean on only his second time in a canoe, to climbing Mount Denman, revealed the missing part of most people’s training: the chance to explore and adventure in nature with a group of like-minded people.

Kesh is proof that you don’t have to be raised with many excursions under your belt to embrace your adventurous side. His exposure to moving in nature later in life, coupled with fighting back from long COVID and pneumonia, gives him the lens of someone who has been through it, embraced change, and come out better for it.

Kesh has always been inseparable from the Restore Human Method, having poured hundreds of hours into developing the pillars of our programming. After 25 years in the industry and having worked with over a thousand people from all walks of life, he now spends his time helping coaches at the start of their journeys with the skills they need, continuing to have skin in the game by working with people all over the world, as well as currently, single-handedly setting up Restore Human London.