There is no “either way.” To not “choose” the context of your journey is still to choose the context provided by society – the high school, the job, the corporation, the packaged food and packaged health-care. The grind for someone else. Somehow, we often find ourselves somewhere down this road, feeling repressed and wanting to...

Active movements are when we have intent behind each part of the movement. We actually control the entire sequence from our own intent, without using another arm to help a stretch, without using gravity to accelerate or load the movement and without using momentum as either assistance or as load. Often in exercise, there is...

I know a lot of people who have expressed that the happiest they have ever been was in a previous job when they were younger, doing labouring, construction or building work. Then, they went to university and now work in a bank, or drive excel spreadsheets. They want to add value in this new area,...

The exclamation mark above is important. Once we are grounded, developed physical resilience, have moved through fears of belonging or security, we move up to the solar plexus chakra. Our centre. In the chakra system, this is the power centre for personal power, self-will (and physically, digestion and assimilation) When the solar plexus is balanced,...

At any one time, the pace of a marathon runner is pedestrian relative to the most average sprinter. If you are looking to go far in your endeavour – let’s say health and fitness, or sport in general – then in reality, the pace is kind of slow. At any one time, things might look...

[From Friday] I was just warming up for some basic movement/mobility work with some skate-boarding outside and tried a trick I’ve probably done 10,000 times, over a curb.  For whatever reason, it didn’t work out, I twisted and landed on my back on the side of the curb. It’s not serious, but I wasn’t walking...

“You can’t shoot a canon out of a canoe.” This is a saying in the strength and conditioning world. It means you need to have a strong “core” or midline, so that you can develop power at the extremities (legs etc). You can’t do isolation exercises at the legs and arms and neglect the trunk...

There is one main reason people get into exercise, movement, training – whatever.. That is to change. To lose weight, to get stronger, leaner, faster. The motivational drive. Typically it is a move away from fear engagement. That’s awesome – it is completely valid and a great way to start the journey. At some point...