Live Your Adventure With Natural Movement: A MovNat Story
By Cole Thornton, PT, DPT My wife and I recently took a trip which may interest you. We were outdoors almost all day, rain or shine. We didn’t wear shoes for a week, and I was often without a shirt. We swam in the ocean, got tan, and star gazed every night far from...
5 Baby Steps to Help You Crawl While Balancing at Height
By Peri Zourides (L3 MCT) and Jerome Rattoni (MovNat Team Instructor) Crawling and balancing are both fun, practical, Natural Movement skills that deliver a lot of benefits. These movements can be a little intimidating, especially when you combine them. But with a few...
Natural Movement For Women: An Interview with 3 MovNat Certified Trainers
By Dr. Christa Whiteman Could you give us a snapshot of who you are? Jessica: I grew up in Georgia. I was never really what I would consider an athlete, instead I sang in choir. I was active in gymnastics until I was 10 or 11, and I played soccer in high school. I...
MovNat: A Road To Recovery
By David Dickinson In 2004, I was deployed on operations with the British Army to southern Iraq. One day, my platoon found ourselves involved in a six-day gun battle with local insurgents. During the night, we suffered a direct, high-explosive strike which wounded...
How Jenny Climbs, Runs, and Cycles with Fewer Injuries and More Confidence Than Ever Before
Why I Rercertified in MovNat and What I Learned the Second Time Around By Dr. Jenny Ploss, PT, DPT, Level 2 MovNat Certified Trainer I came across MovNat through my physical therapy practice. I am a physical therapist at Langford Sports & Physical Therapy, a small...
Getting Comfortable In The Water: A Review of MovNat Aquatics
By Chris Redig Are you comfortable in the water? Or does it leave you feeling sidelined? If you’re like most people, some element of the water leaves you feeling uncomfortable. Complete confidence in the water is rare. Fear of the water is common. I recently took...
Be a Puma, Not a Kitten: A Review of MovNat Combatives
By Cole Thornton, PT, DPT Combatives and fighting skills are necessary in a complete system of human movement, because they are as essential to survival as running, jumping, climbing, or crawling. Fighting skills were a central part of Hebert’s Natural Method, and I’m...
I Thought I Could Swim: Then I Tried MovNat Aquatics (Review)
By Charlie Deist, Level 3 MovNat Certified Trainer I always took it for granted that I “knew how to swim” – until attending the aquatics certification. I haven’t had such an improvement in my movement capabilities since I learned the efficient...
5 Natural Movements To Help You Get Up From The Ground Easily (and Get Fit in the Process)
The daily grind of getting up and down from the ground will either do your body good or contribute to extra wear and tear. Get Ups, when performed efficiently, serve as a fitness-building, skill-improving tool that pays dividends for a lifetime – making the...
A Beginner’s Guide to Rolling (From The Ground Up)
By Alex Schenker, MovNat Team Instructor & Level 3 MovNat Certified Trainer Rolling is a fun, practical movement that unfortunately, many people don’t perform efficiently – increasing the risk of injury. But with a few smart progressions and mindful...
United By Movement: 3 Lessons Learned From Two Complementary Movement Systems
By Danny Clark, MovNat Performance Director and Master Instructor The MovNat team has been on the move! We spent 4 days learning, teaching, and sharing ideas with Katy Bowman and her team of teachers at the Nutritious Movement studio in Washington state. What Katy...
The Side Bent Sit Reverse
The Side Bent Sit Reverse is a basic sit transition that is both practical for everyday life and also packs a lot of fitness benefits. This movement could not be more practical. You can practice while reading a book, watching TV, or better yet, while being fully...
I Lived MovNat’s “Strong To Be Helpful” Philosophy
By Michael D’Avella My favorite MovNat ad is the “Be strong to be helpful” image because it resonates with me. I’m a career firefighter, and I didn’t come across MovNat on my own; I was directed to it by my amazing wife who had completed her level 1...
What Nobody is Telling You About Natural Movement & Evolutionary Fitness
How to Escape the Zoo Human Predicament and Start Moving the Way Your Body Was Designed: The Ultimate Fitness & Movement Practice (According to Evolution) by Erwan Le Corre, MovNat Founder Imagine yourself going for a walk in nature, maybe with a small group of...
After 7 Years of Rehab, I was Still Broken – So I tried MovNat…
Relearning How to Move When Doctors Say It’s Impossible – After 13 Surgeries and 7 Years of Rehab, Here’s what Finally Worked… By Aaron Wood I was 25 years old—my 25th birthday being just two weeks ago—and I was heading to work as a roughneck...
MovNat Helped Bring My Body Back
By Andrew Brown In early 2014, I suffered an auto-immune syndrome called Guillain-Barre. The good news is that it’s a self-limiting syndrome that does not recur and can be recovered from, but the bad news is that it is often devastating. It wreaked havoc on my...
Lumbar Carry: How To Carry a Person or Heavy Object Efficiently
A movement so practical it can save lives. The lumbar carry, like most other human body carries, can be a lot of fun! Though it is not reserved to carrying people, it is mostly used when someone can’t walk at all and needs to be transported a certain distance....
The Cure For Physical Idleness: Follow Your Instincts
by Erwan Le Corre, MovNat Founder Do you remember the very first moment when you started moving? You probably can’t because it was at such an early stage in your life (as a matter of fact, you already moved to some extent in your mother’s womb before you were born)....