The Ultimate Guide To Making A Safe & Healthy Transition To Barefoot Style Shoes
Here’s the thing: if you want a body that feels great and works at it’s best, you’re going to need to think about your shoes. It's surprising to most people to learn that most conventional footwear is really terrible for our feet. Wearing shoes the shoes we think are...
Why Kinstretch Will Change Your Life
There are a lot of types of exercise classes in the world right now. HIIT, yoga, cardio-sculpt, Pilates, spinning – you name it, there’s a class for it! Most classes can be fun, give you some movement vitamins & help you get you good at doing the thing the class...
Complete Guide To Real Life Squats Part 3: How To Use More Butt
Squat TECH! Today I’m talking technique – how to optimize your squat to build sustainable strength (make sure to check out the earlier posts in this series - squatting basics and how to untuck your pelvis).⠀ I like squats that use lots of backside – butt and...
The Complete Guide To Real Life Squats – Part 2: How To Untuck Your Pelvis
In many modern bodies, our hips have basically outsourced a lot of their movement to our low backs. That’s not awesome for our hips, our backs, or our squats! In the first post in this series, we started to explore different positions that give you some of the...
Complete Guide To Real Life Squats (Even If You Can’t Squat) – Part 1
Can you do a full resting squat, in comfort, without making wonky compensations? If so, stop reading! This post is not for you. This one is for everyone who struggles with their squat and wishes they could squat with more ease, comfort and depth. Get ready for a...
Beginner’s Guide to Getting Your Feet in Barefoot Shoes
By Anya Jensen If you’re into functional movement you’ve probably heard of barefoot shoes. When natural movement is your goal, barefoot shoes just make sense! But practically speaking, being committed to healthy footwear poses some challenges. You don't see shoes that...
Tight Forearms And Elbow Pain From Typing? Try Some Mobility Exercises.
If you feel like you’re glued to your keyboard these days, you’re not alone. Since COVID, so much of our life happens on our phones and computers. This can take a big toll on our bodies. Typing a lot can create really tight forearms, which sometimes leads to elbow...
Shoe Review: Xero Xcursions
Like everyone else, my life has been seriously interrupted by COVID. But maybe unlike everyone else, the result is that I’m homeless and don’t know where I’ll be living this winter. When the pandemic hit, we were in Mexico and planning to spend the next couple of...
Who else wants strong mobile hips?
I know I do. Hips are so key. Weak hips mean bad balance. Tight hips don’t feel good. Hip replacement stats are through the roof (and it’s not because hips just wear out, people, it’s because no one is using them right). Hips need movement like the desert needs the...
Hanging 101: The Best Way To Build Upper Body Strength
If you're new here, you might not know that I spent the last two years living in a Toyota 4Runner. Up until the Pandemic hit, we were camping and travelling our way down south, as slowly as possible. We had just made it to Playa La Saladita near Ixtapa and I was...
Learn To Walk Better
You probably already know that walking is one of the best exercises you can do for so, so many reasons. But did you know that you can get even more benefits from walking if you pay attention to your technique? Today I’m sharing some key tips to make your walking...
Understanding Spinal Alignment, Ribcage Position and Hyperkyphosis
I made the mistake of wearing my Drop Your Ribs top at surf camp a few weeks ago and got a ton of questions from my surf camp neighbours. Surfing is a sport that really messes with the spine and upper back, so almost all surfers could really use some help with their...
Got Neck Pain? Try This Class
I have a long history with neck pain – it used to be so bad that I’d have to miss work. These days it’s not much of issue for me (yay better movement and getting my tongue tie released!). But I do still get some neck stuff especially when I spend lots of time on my...
Fix Your Feet With Stretching & Support
Let’s talk about feet! I just had a super cool appointment with Dr. Ray McClanahan at NW Foot & Ankle – a leading natural-movement focused podiatrist and a really awesome guy (in case you don’t know who he is, he’s also the inventor of CorrectToes, one of the best...
CARs – The BEST Simple Daily Mobility Practice
As you might expect, our year of travel and transition has been leading to lots of changes in my personal movement practice and in my teaching.Since we moved to the truck (moving to camping is what I like to call it), our movement patterns have changed an enormous...
Bulletproof Ankles For Better Hiking & Walking
Since we got back to the USA, we’ve been doing a lot of hiking. Hiking is one of my favourite ways to combine my movement needs (walking) with my community needs (hanging out with friends) with my nature needs (fresh air, green trees, long vistas and more!). Plus it’s...
Like A Monkey: 9+ Reasons You Need To Be Hanging And Swinging
The other day I posted a picture to my Instagram that showed me doing a dead-hang from a tree branch on one of our hikes. And I got a comment from a person who asked why I’m so into hanging. She said she'd seen lots of movement people post hanging pix, but didn't know...
All About Toe Spreaders
Toe spreaders are one of my favourite movement hacks. What are toe spreaders? Basically, they're exactly what they sound like - little devices designed to create a bit more space between your toes. And why toe spreaders? Because modern shoes squash your toes and if...
My Top 8 Tips For Buying Minimal Shoes
So I'm not a big fan of Stuff. I buy as little as I can, and I hate recommending that other people buy things. Neither our pocketbooks nor the world need more Things. But on the other hand, I am a huuuuuuge fan of healthy feet. And since most of us are going to buy...
Minimal Footwear Review: Bedrock Cairn Adventure Hiking Sandals
Do you really need heavy, supportive boots for hiking? The answer is always 'it depends'. If you've never worked on your feet or transitioned to minimal footwear, you might benefit from traditional hiking boots (but you should definitely also start transitioning your...
The Complete Guide To Fixing Your Pelvic Floor
Ok, so I haven’t been blogging as much as I’d like to recently. Frankly, our lives have been really busy. It’s all for a good reason – if you missed it in my newsletter, we’re moving. To our new truck. So we can go camping for a few years. SQUEEEEE! (didn’t hear the...
Real Life Lunges (You Need These In Your Life)
Is your life too busy? Is it so busy you don't feel like you enough time to move? If you're like me and 99% of the people I know, the answer to both these questions is yes. We have a culture of business and a culture of not moving and together it means that our bodies...
Are You Making This Super Common Movement Mistake?
I often wish we were taught how to move better in gym class, instead of how to play volleyball. ‘Cause I have literally played volleyball 4 times since high school, but I move every single day. And I also watch other people moving every single day. Which means I see...
MORE Beautiful Movement-Friendly Homes
Did you get inspired to go a bit more furniture-free from my last post? I am pretty sure there's no such thing as too much inspiration so today I'm sharing MORE movement-friendly home ideas! These ones are from the #SHOWUSYOURS Instagram contest we ran to go with my...
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