Beyond the Physical: Linus Littorin on the Spiritual Challenge of Level 3
Beyond the Physical: Linus Littorin on the Spiritual Challenge of Level 3 By Brian Betancourt & Linus Littorin When I first asked Linus Littorin how his Level 3 experience was, his answer surprised me, not because of what he said, but because of how deeply he...
Rebuilding from the Ground Up: A Physical Therapist’s Path to Pain-Free Running
Rebuilding from the Ground Up: A Physical Therapist’s Path to Pain-Free Running Dr. Diana Solares (Owner, Elevate Rehabilitation & Performance) As a physical therapist, I’ve always been driven by one question: how do we truly fix the body, not just patch symptoms?...
Barefoot Running: Lessons from Pain, Practice, and Performance
Barefoot Running: Lessons from Pain, Practice, and Performance By Brian Betancourt (Director of Performance & Curriculum, MovNat) andDr. Diana Solares (Owner, Elevate Rehabilitation & Performance) From Injury to Insight In 2017, a slip, but not a fall, changed...
A Smarter Path to Recertification: Introducing CEUs and Strategic Partnerships
A Smarter Path to Recertification: Introducing CEUs and Strategic Partnerships By Brian Betancourt (Director of Performance & Curriculum, MovNat) When I first became a MovNat Certified Trainer, I was on the other side of the experience, a passionate practitioner...
Healing through Massage and MovNat
HEALING THROUGH MASSSAGE AND MOVNAT By Steven SheppardLevel 2 MovNat Certified Trainer This was my back circa 2013. Even to the untrained eye it’s obvious there were issues. These included; a curvature of the spine, a collapsing in on the left side and sloping,...
Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Natural Movement: What We Learned as a Coach and a Mother
Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Natural Movement: What We Learned as a Coach and a Mother By Rock Hancock & Annie Hancock MovNat Team Instructor Coach Growing and birthing a human takes work and will have an impact on the body from stretching all the core musculature,...
Rethinking Assessment: Why the Get-Up Belongs at the Center of Your Movement Screen
Rethinking Assessment: Why the Get-Up Belongs at the Center of Your Movement Screen 1. The Problem With Isolated Testing (Especially in Fitness) In rehab, isolated testing makes sense. If a client’s knee hurts when they squat, a physical therapist will: 1. Watch them...
Dynamic Depth: Revisiting the Reach of Body-Based Therapies in Living Systems
Dynamic Depth: Revisiting the Reach of Body-Based Therapies in Living Systems By Brian Betancourt Director of Curriculum & Performance, MovNat How do complex, temperature-sensitive, fluid-filled, load-distributing biological structures adapt to external pressure...
From Levers to Lattices: Rethinking the Body Through Biotensegrity
From Levers to Lattices: Rethinking the Body Through Biotensegrity By Brian Betancourt Director of Curriculum & Performance, MovNat If traditional biomechanics were literally true, a hockey player hitting a puck at full speed would either launch backward or snap...
Why Nature Sharpens the Mind: A MovNat Perspective on Outdoor Movement and Cognition
Why Nature Sharpens the Mind: A MovNat Perspective on Outdoor Movement and Cognition By Brian Betancourt Director of Curriculum & Performance, MovNat In 2025, a groundbreaking study confirmed what many natural movers have long intuited: physical activity performed...
A New Chapter for MovNat: Why I Hired Brian Betancourt
By Erwan Le CorreFounder, MovNat When I created MovNat, I wasn’t building a workout, I was reviving a birthright. Natural Movement was, and still is, a way to reconnect with what makes us human: the ability to adapt, to solve, to move with meaning. But a movement...
Natural Movement Grows in Japan: Introducing MovNat Japan
We’re excited to spotlight a growing movement community in East Asia: MovNat Japan. As Natural Movement continues to expand its global reach, Japan has become an exciting new hub for those seeking practical, real-world fitness rooted in nature and human biology....
Rediscovering Movement: A Navy SEAL’s Experience with MovNat
By Rob Dubois Since my military retirement almost 20 years ago, I’ve been training and coaching clients on the importance of tending to all four essential parts of a healthy human: Body, Mind, Heart, and Soul (physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual/ethical)....
The Protege Effect By Erwan Le Corre
By Erwan Le CorreFounder of MovNat “While we teach, we learn,” said the Roman philosopher Seneca. Whereas ancient wisdom teaches us that the best way to understand a concept is to explain it to someone else, modern science proves why and how it works....
Nature As Your Playground: MovNat Has Transformed How People Exercise
Stefano Tripney, MovNat Master Instructor Out with the old-fashioned stuff. I mean, what’s the latest thing? There’s got to be something newer and shinier just around the corner in the industry and I’m determined to find it. Those were my thoughts as a...
Jump Landings & Rolling Tutorial: Drills to Build the Skill
Landing is the most important part of a jump. At least that’s the part of the jump where the injuries tend to happen, and when we’re talking about jumping down from a height, we need to have a few options regarding how to land. How to Jump from a Height and Land in a...Natural Ground Movement: A Timeless Approach to Movement Restoration
by Bernd Reicheneder, MovNat Curriculum Manager, Master Instructor & Team Instructor The human departure from life on the ground Throughout human history, and the evolution that preceded us, our existence has been intimately intertwined with the ground. We emerged...
MovNat Medical: A New Lens for Best Care
By Dr. Phil Lombardo I wonder if the creator of MovNat, Erwan LeCorre, with his love for sharing the practice of Natural Movement realized that he would reach this far into the Medical community and crack it wide open. Since its origins, MovNat has always...