Description
Natural Movement is a health & fitness discipline based on the practice of ancestral human movement skills. It encompasses the skills of breathing, ground movement, walking, running, jumping, vaulting, balancing, crawling, climbing, swimming, lifting, carrying, throwing, and catching. Humans no longer live in the natural ancestral setting; we have lost the rich diversity of movement previously enjoyed by wild humans and are reduced to a few commonly overused movement patterns. Some of the patterns we’re all familiar with are standing in line at the store, sitting behind a desk, sitting behind a car steering wheel, walking to the mailbox, and sitting on the couch watching television at night. If you’re an athlete, you could add linear running and linear weightlifting as additional habitual movement patterns. Being stuck in these limited consistent movement patterns eventually casts your body into unnatural postures leading to health problems, physical dysfunction, and pain. Natural Movement training aims to regain diverse evolutionary and biological movement patterns to foster, restore, and/or maintain health, fitness, well-being, happiness and even a sense of freedom. Developing a Natural Movement practice sets a healthy baseline of agility, mobility, and flexibility to support a healthy lifestyle or additional athletic endeavors. The type of Natural Movement training taught by the Healthy Life Collective is called MovNat.
