Walking Workshop

You’ve changed your shoes, but how about the way you move?

Many of us are dealing with pain in our feet, knees, and hips. Changing what we wear on our feet can help, but that’s only the beginning. The way we walk influences how and where stress is distributed through the body on a daily basis. When we change our movement habits, we can reduce pain and walk softly on the earth.

A Biological Approach

In many cases, pain is the result of skeletal misalignment and imbalanced muscle tension. Essentially, the parts aren’t in the right place or aren’t able to move in an optimal way. Repetition increases the likelihood that, at some point, an awkward movement pattern results in pain or long-term damage.

When we learn the internal logic of the body, and understand how it moves as a coordinated, cohesive whole, our entire movement pattern transforms. That is what this workshop is designed to do for your walk.

Most of us learned to walk in a biomechanical way, with arms and legs moving like levers and the foot hitting the ground with a hard heel strike. By contrast, biological walking begins in the spine. It is fluid, spiraling, dynamic, and nearly effortless. It feels delicious to your insides and restores rather than damages joints. Learning all the pieces takes time. The full workshop is a minimum of four hours. By the end, you will have revisited all the developments stages that taught you how to walk in the first place. We return to patterns from childhood to restore the movement coherence we were all born to experience. So, expect to spend some time on the floor! All content can be modified to fit your particular body and abilities.

Once you get the hang of these new movement patterns, walking may just become one of your favorite forms of exercise. Or maybe it's not even exercise anymore. It's pure enjoyment in motion.

Three Keys to Easeful Walking

  • The spine houses our central nervous system. In order for our nerves and joints to be healthy, we need to move our spines. If there’s no movement in the spine, we lose fluid flow and increase inflammation. Allowing your spine to spiral while walking restores this key source of fluid movement.

  • Moving the legs from the hip sockets is absolutely key to restoring your hips, knees, and low back. You’ll learn how to differentiate your torso from your limbs and discover greater freedom of motion.

  • Where and how you land on the foot completely changes the experience of walking. You’ll learn the secret to effortless momentum, the deeper purpose of your ankle joint, and how to literally put a spring back in your step.

Discover Natural Movement

Our next Walking Workshop is being scheduled. Exact dates and venue will be forthcoming.

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