walking lightly on earth
We’ve been out picking spray free strawberries for the freezer. At the same time it’s an activity that involves lots of nutritious movement. All the squatting and kneeling is great for a pregnant lady like me Opposite chair and couch sitting, it facilitates and encourages […]
Do you feel that you’re sitting too much during your day? I know that it can be difficult not to sit when you’re at work. For example it might not be possible to get a standing desk to avoid sitting all day. To make chair […]
Are you enjoying your shoes?
I’m enjoying my new minimal shoes from Lems Shoes. More room for my toes compared to most traditional shoes.
They’re very comfortable, light, breathable and without a positive heel.
It’s wellness for my feet 
and they look great!
It’s an everyday cure for my feet and whole body. Whole-body movement starts at your feet (or arms when hanging).
Are you looking after your feet? I recommend that you do. The rest of your body depends on it!
I love to be barefooted but when I can’t, I go for minimal shoewear. Being barefooted or wearing minimal shoes assist in natural movement. Allowing your body to more naturally and how your body is designed to move.
This has been a little morning ritual the last months. It’s a great way to wake up and to get grounded. It feels a little wild and crazy đ We get a better feel for the weather and what the birds, Icelandic horses and other […]
I love natural movement but I donât have the same freedom as before I became a mum. Thereâs isnât much time after work, daycare pick up, cooking dinner and bedtime routine. Instead I focus on the movement I can implement while still doing daily tasks and work. I rarely […]
NATURALÂ MOVEMENT
In the previous posts, I share how our lifestyle-changes within nourishment, toxic free home & personal care and meditation & sleep have improved our vitality and health problems including neck pains that Iâve had for years. If you havenât read part 1, part 2, part 3 or part 4 yet, I recommend that you read those first.
In this final part, Iâll talk about how natural movement has helped me reduce tensions and pain in my neck. Natural and ancestral movement is about moving as our human body has evolved to move. Itâs also about being less sedentary and moving the whole body instead of isolated parts like just your fingers on the keyboard or restricting your feet and toes in traditional shoes đ
When we as a family learned this, we started walking more either bare foot or wearing minimal footwear and carrying more; like for example our shopping and our three your old son instead of using a stroller or driving the car. We also reorganised our home, selling our couches to facilitate more movement rather than accepting a sedentary lifestyle full of furniture that creates a development-crippling environment, that inhibits our natural movement. Additionally, weâve installed a standing desk and ditched our bed pillows when sleeping. At the time our son was very young and we asked ourselves ‘why had we become so attached to sleeping with pillows?’ Why is it that as we got older we sleep with pillows, when babies and young children do not? Just like walking bare foot and wearing minimal footwear, we chose to transition over a period of time to become accustomed to, and build up strength in under used areas of our bodies.
Movement is much much more than exercise, every movement or position that you place yourself into will impact your body shape and adaption. This is why we need a greater variety of movement and positions during our day. You should think about âmovement” on a cellular level impacted by loads, squeeze, pull and push from external and internal forces. I also think âmovementâ when my body and vascular system contracts when I go for a dip in cold water in the winter.
Now that youâre thinking about this, you can perhaps start finding ways to organise your own home and daily activities in ways that will support moving more and in a more natural way. Think about how you move, sit, stand, sleep etc and find ways to combine or âstack” your activities. So that you can incorporate more movement when you for example, do gardening and squatting forage for food when walking in nature, play with your kids and achieve more exercise and walking while carrying groceries by leaving the car at home when you go shopping.
Below, I list my ideas how you can get more natural movement into your day.
MORE:
Natural movement
Greater variety of movement
Walking
Squatting
Carrying
Lifting
Crawling (foot-hand, knee-hand)
Hanging in our arms
Throwing
Practical work around the house
Processing your own food
Squatty potty
Winter bathing or cryotherapy
LESS/AVOID:
Sedentary
Traditional footwear
Couch-sitting
Chair-sitting
Learn more about natural movement in NUTRITIONAL STACKING FOR YOU AND THE ENVIRONMENT, MAKE EVERYTHING FROM WALKING TO DANCING MORE ENJOYABLE and HOW TO MAKE SITTING MORE NUTRITIOUS
Learn more about how to reorganise your home to facilitate movement in IMPROVING OUR HEALTH BY SELLING OUR COUCHES
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Beautiful Christmas decorations using only natural materials. I think that this is a great way to avoid or reduce plastic and use things that might already be around you. It was a great little family adventure spending time in nature collecting pine cones and branches […]
I’ve previously talked about how floor sitting is very nutritious but if youâre required to sit when working, you can mix it up with sitting cross-legged on your chair. You can train yourself to sit longer and longer cross-legged. Remember to alternate between which legs […]
Are you getting outdoors, bare footed and moving naturally as we’ve developed to do for millions of years?
Balancing bare footed strengthens muscles, ligaments and joints in your feet which travels further up your legs, knees, hips, back and neck, creating better posture and mobility.
It’s a whole body movement, starting at your feet!
When your out there, you’ll also get lots of natural light, vitamin D, fresh air and grounded as well as connecting with your landscape đ
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Esben and I’ve been rewilding our morning and lunch with ancestral movement, sunlight, barefoot grounding/ earthing, connecting with our landscape and enjoying our lunch outdoors, sitting on a rock, watching and listening to the sound of turbulent water. The ancestral movement that we did were […]
