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Movement – come find your movement pack!

All forms of movement (AKA exercise) are fundamental to human health and vitality. More and more evidence demonstrates it is the one daily lifestyle habit that delivers all round mental, physical and cognitive health. It can play a significant role in preventing or managing chronic health conditions, builds strong muscles and bones, eases a stressed mind, re-centres our focus inward….and can make us feel invincible!

Doing so in a natural environment boosts its impact as we remove the artificial light of gyms, as well as the smooth bars, rigid exercise machines and flat surfaces. Outside, we move with varied terrain, texture, gradient – and weather! – to provide a whole-body stimulus.

For many of us memories of school PE lessons bring back nightmares, gyms feel uninspiring and rigid protocols can cause injury or burnout.

What I offer in conjunction with the spaces we move in is:

  • Community
  • Connection
  • Play
  • Fun
  • zero pressure
  • the permission to fall or struggle
  • the acceptance of wherever you are starting at in your health journey
  • space to build your strength, fitness, balance, mobility, coordination, bone health, confidence…..
  • space to build a positive relationship with your body and what it can do
  • a celebration of life, the natural world, and each other!

Move, your way.

We will move with what’s naturally found in the space plus some added kit that I bring along – this could be tree roots, fallen trees, rocks, benches, hills, ditches, kettlebells, sticks, weighted bags, balls and more!

Together we build awareness of our bodies and their abilities, we learn to listen more deeply to them, we wake up our primal instincts, and we banish any limiting stories we told ourselves around our physical capabilities!

Check the events page for upcoming classes!

Class options:

Running Wild – family movement sessions.
Outdoor intergenerational fun to build fitness, body confidence and physical literacy.  Intertwining stories, games, nature and probably a fair bit of mud!

Move with Nature – for the older movers. Designed for those 60 – 100 who wish to build muscle and bone strength, balance, coordination and a healthy later life. No sets and reps here, just fun meaningful practices led by your goals.

Wild Awake Club – starting the day well for all adults (but especially if you are 40 plus and feeling a bit ‘meh’!). A nourishing mix of group mindful presence, morning moves and joy.

1 – An emphasis on mobility and whole body moves

2  – An emphasis on building strength and resilience in muscles, bones and our hearts.

Used with permission from Wild Strong

My movement story

I hated PE at school! I always felt like the only one who struggled and I have very vivid memories of hiding at the back of the line to take on the High Jump or the classic being picked last for teams. I remember dropping the baton during a sports day relay race – I think some of the embarrassment and guilt are still with me!

This played a major role in establishing my relationship to my body – which has been far from nurturing at times! I came to distrust it and by the time I was in my early twenties I was left with deeply ingrained stories about my body and physical ability – all negative! I have come to realise through my own practice that these stories seeped into many areas of my life, impacting my confidence and self worth.

Fast forward to now and things are much brighter! I love and appreciate my body, what it has done for me, what it enables me to do, and the places it has taken me (especially on foot and on two wheels). Listening to my body I now know what makes it sing, and an emphasis on moving (AKA exercising) with play and adventure at the forefront is key for me. Mostly outdoors, often with sticks or logs, delighting in the mud, sometimes some tunes, always a whoop here or there, and a mixture of jumping, crawling, hanging, throwing, squatting, lifting, carrying and more!

Movement vs Exercise

‘Exercise’ is a human made and modern concept, and one which our bodies are not hardwired to do! ‘Movement’ is all encompassing and helps us reframe physical activity, how to build it into our days and offers a more organic, natural approach. Explore more.