Meet Bobbi Hamilton: The Wellness Visionary Who Builds Worlds

Bobbi Hamilton is the founder and CEO of Chi Universe, a Santa Monica–based wellness and technology company she launched in 2007. A patented inventor, designer, and creative director, Bobbi blends biomechanics, storytelling, and play to create interactive wellness products for kids, families, and adults—including the award-winning Chi Yoga Mat & Game. Her work focuses on elevating physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing through joyful, intelligent design.

Raised near Cornell University, Bobbi trained under Olympian Rick Gilbert and mind-body mentor Roy Alvarez, developing early mastery in visualization and precision movement. She went on to compete as a platform diver for UC Berkeley before transitioning into Hollywood as a stunt performer, athletic model, and on-camera talent.

A Pioneer in Play-Along Wellness

Bobbi’s Hollywood work—spanning campaigns for Canon, Adidas/Stella McCartney, Sony, NCAA, and more—sharpened her comfort on camera and her eye for world-class branding. Those skills helped elevate Chi Universe into retailers like Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom, UncommonGoods, and Four Seasons Resorts, with features in Harper’s Bazaar, Goop, and The Today Show.

The concept behind Chi Universe was born during a children’s class at the Venice Public Library, when Bobbi sketched symbols on a mat to help a student overcome language and alignment challenges—sparking the patented, symbol-based system now used by families and schools worldwide.

Movement with Meaning

A lifelong athlete and healer, Bobbi has taught fitness since age 16 and later mastered yoga, Pilates, meditation, breathwork, Qigong, biomechanics, and Tibetan energetic therapy. She has taught at luxury resorts, corporate programs, and global initiatives including Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! LA and the UN’s HerStory. As Chi Universe expands into digital media and major partnerships, Bobbi continues to build worlds where movement becomes mastery and play becomes purpose.

Action as Paintbrush, Not Puppetmaster

A young Tim Storms, tumbling on gymnastics mats at four years old, is born into a life of action—a professional fight choreographer by day at just age fifteen, a classical theater student by night. Fast-forward across decades: Storms is a Taurus World Stunt Award nominee, an elite dual-black-belt martial artist, and a creative force whose movement design echoes through The Matrix, Star Trek: Picard, and the scoring phases of God of War.

Storms’ journey is anything but linear. After earning a degree in classical and musical theater, he maps out a path that propels him from Shakespearean stage fighting to Hollywood’s competitive action circuits. The path: relentless physical conditioning, deep mastery of mimicry, and the philosophy of treating body movement as a precise science. That mindset lands him work on the original Matrix trilogy, where he steps in to physically translate complex choreography for the American cast, and later leads to three full seasons completely embodying Captain Picard alongside Patrick Stewart. Tim’s creative pivot? Harnessing decades of elite physical training for everything except the ego: blending Wushu, TaeKwonDo, and gymnastics to serve the story—leaving the core performance to the truth of the character.

Beyond the Movement: Physics and Engineering the Kinetic Illusion

A performer with deep roots in kinetic science, Storms fuses his love of martial arts, gymnastics, and human anatomy into a clear frontier: the scientific experimentation and codification of training methodologies. By predicting how a body in motion handles momentum and force, his work brings a sophisticated psychological and physical foundation to screen combat. “Instinctively... it naturally translates because a body in motion will always tend to do certain things,” he says, building bridges between ancient Wushu foundations and modern, physics-oriented filmmaking.

Stunt Choreography, Tailored Training, and Beyond

Never one to play it safe, Storms executes genre-defying physical feats—pulling a bow and arrow at the peak of an inverted aerial cartwheel or landing downward elbows out of front flips. His artistic philosophy on set mirrors the Chinese martial arts discipline of “eating bitter”—embracing suffering and an incredibly high pain tolerance for the sake of the ultimate shot. When a high-speed pneumatic ratchet dislocated his arm entirely from its socket during Spider-Man 2, he simply popped it back in, took five minutes, and shot the brutal sequence eight more times. “If it happens, I want the crew to continue on with their job and get it on film so we have the shot,” he reflects.

From training stars like Toby McGuire and Lawrence Fishburne, to recording pioneering motion capture data as a godlike combatant in God of War, Storms’ career is a testament to versatility and vision. Whether adapting Tai Chi for alien cultures on Star Trek or bringing his martial arts background full circle to train comedy icons like Wallace Shawn on Young Sheldon, his career is fueled by resilience, precision, and an egoless devotion to character acting.

Legacy, Mimicry, and the Future of Artistry

What’s next? Storms is betting on a future where human physical performance triumphs over digital blockbusters, focusing his energy on smaller indie projects and directing his own short films where he can fully write and inhabit raw, authentic characters. Powered in his personal training sessions by the theatrical rock of Queen and heavy Metallica riffs, he continues to seek out the next physical transformation. “I like playing different characters, so I guess my answer for that is every one of them and the next one coming up,” he says.