My self-summary
I’ve lived many lives—web developer, poet, ESL teacher, videographer—but my current path is rooted in yoga, tantra, and transformation.
My journey has been intense, unconventional, and deeply internal. From growing up a gifted kid in New Jersey to navigating mental health diagnoses and pushing against social expectations, I’ve always been seeking freedom—through movement, meditation, and meaning.
Yoga became my anchor. What began as physical practice evolved into a deeper exploration of tantric energy, subtle body awareness, and spiritual integration. I practice daily, ride my bike everywhere, and work with breath, mantra, and embodiment to rewire trauma and access vitality. My body is my teacher, my temple, and my joy.
I’ve been vegan for over 20 years, and I bring the same discipline, curiosity, and intensity to everything I do—whether it’s leading a tantra class, biking through the city, or writing haiku.
I live in Los Angeles with my Italian husband, whom I married the day after Trump was inaugurated—a defiant act of queer love. We share life across cultures, languages, and shifting tectonic plates (both literal and metaphorical).
I am here now—to grow, to serve, to teach, to touch the divine within the chaos.
These are the statistics I received on OkCupid based on answering over 2,000 questions throughout the early 2010s. This screen capture is from 2016. I am way more outgoing than this indicates. But anyways, I try to be someone who doesn’t let himself get in the way of doing what he wants to do. No inhibitions, no regrets – right? I’m very independent.
I have ridden a bike in ten different countries. I lived many lives and I have never lived in the same place for more than two years until I moved to Los Angeles. I have a symbolic relationship with Los Angeles as living here is like living on a bunch of cracks and fragments.
I think of the fragments from around these cracks are the tectonic plates that keep this city moving. There is a hazy cloud of Angelenos who literally live on separate tectonic plates and co-exist as a sub-community of the moving car. And I embrace the impulse to coexist on a tectonic plate, movement against movement, and I like the weather of Los Angeles.
I plan to be a supercentenarian cyborg via the replacement of the more intricate parts in the future.
On marriage
I have been gay married to an Italian since 12/14/16. I became an EU citizen by way of Spanish citizenship by way of Italian citizenship. I balked at the idea of heteronormative coupling or such that is otherwise known as “the confines of marriage” for years. I never thought I would do it. So I threw that theory out the door the day after Donald Trump was inaugurated. I got gay engaged a day after the inauguration, and gay married a month after that.
Christian Pelleschi and Chris Girard got married at the Beverly Hills courthouse on 12/14/16.
And this is with an Italian that I had been in a relationship with since 2011. So I am one of those people who has left the USA because of Trump. And then I became a hypocrite and came back. I hated being tethered to this organization called UCETAM. I left my pedagogy costume of glasses, parted brown hair, and a button-up shirt. I showed my piercings and tattoos and ran back to California. So now I am working on Italian now, via Spanish, on DuoLingo.
The reward of teaching English at a tiny Socialist cooperative school in Spain was not enough. And it’s likely that Mandarin Chinese will replace this universal language. And all of us native English speakers will be old hat. We’ll be pushing our really unmusical and ugly language like some ugly religion in an equally ugly church. But I turned this situation into something productive and made video stories with the kids.
BDSM Test
An accurate test taken from bdsmtest.org.
100% Non-monogamist
99% Exhibitionist
98% Voyeur
74% Vanilla
69% Experimentalist
49% Primal (Prey)
48% Masochist
47% Ageplayer
36% Switch
30% Slave
23% Degrader
16% Degradee
13% Submissive
13% Dominant
13% Primal (Hunter)
10% Rigger
4% Brat
2% Boy/Girl
2% Daddy/Mommy
1% Rope bunny
1% Sadist
0% Pet
0% Owner
0% Master/Mistress
I am NOT your Master/Mistress
I am NOT your owner
I am NOT your pet
I am NOT your sadist
I am NOT your “rope bunny”
I am NOT your Daddy/Mommy
I am NOT your Boy/Girl
I am NOT your brat.