No More Pushover Mom! Thoughts on MovNat Combatives
By Michaux Shaffer, Level 1 MovNat Certified Trainer & Mom of Four Growing up in the South, I learned what matters most…being gentle and polite. Mind your manners, don’t offend anyone, and always remember to smile. Even my four children will tell you I am a...Top 10 Natural Movements for Fitness Gains
By Jerome Rattoni, MovNat Master Instructor Note: All natural movements improve your fitness as a result of practice, but certain movements provide greater fitness benefits than others. And today, MovNat Master Instructor, Jerome Rattoni, who has made a tremendous...
New E-Course: MovNat Level 1 Fundamentals
Update: Our new e-course, MovNat Level 1 Fundamentals, is now available! If there’s one thing we’ve learned from training thousands of students over the years, it’s the importance of starting your journey with the fundamentals of Natural Movement...
6 Natural Movement Benchmarks for Beginners
By Danny Clark, MovNat Performance Director When you first start any practice, it’s often helpful to have a target; a goal to aspire toward to help drive progress. That’s why I’ve created six Natural Movement benchmarks for beginners. If your body is already in...
MovNat Level 3 Certification: Highlights From Vienna
As you’ve likely experienced, the more you give to Natural Movement, the more it gives back to you. Students who have spent years devoted to the practice understand how life-changing it can be – and well beyond the improved movement skills & fitness...
Kathi’s MovNat Story: Connecting the Dots with Natural Movement
By Katharina ‘Kathi’ Havlicek, Level 3 MovNat Certified Trainer In MovNat, I found a system that combines what makes perfect sense to me. In the community, I found people with whom I can walk barefoot in a forest together, and be smiled at as a group...
4 Important Lessons Learned From The MovNat Journey
By John Sifferman We asked our MovNat Team Instructors: What is the most important lesson you’ve learned during your MovNat journey? Here’s what they had to say. Danny Clark – MovNat Performance Director & Master Instructor In a word: Freedom! For me,...
Keep Moving: Lessons Learned From a Broken Arm and the MovNat Certification Program
By Kyle Brandon, Level 3 MovNat Certified Trainer It was around April of 2018, and I stumbled on MovNat like many people, through the book Natural Born Heroes. My friend, David, and I read the book and were immediately drawn to the concept of Natural Movement. I...
Is MovNat too simple?
By Danny Clark, MovNat Performance Director One of the biggest barriers to the spread of MovNat is the protest that if something is “natural” we shouldn’t need to learn how to do it. Why should do we need to learn how to sit, walk, balance, and jump when we already...
The Great Fitness Predicament and a Solution That Actually Works
This time of year, many people pursue better health and fitness and fall short because they’re going about it in an unsustainable or short-sighted way. Here at MovNat, we believe fitness doesn’t have to be a struggle. In fact, by simply focusing on...
From Falling Apart at Age 39 to Pushing 50 and More Capable Than Ever
It was September 2009. I was sitting at the dining room table late at night, in pain and exhausted. My daughter was born three months earlier, and I was falling apart at age 39. From a partial tear of a tendon a few years back, my left foot was so weak that I...
Make Your Resolution a Relationship
By Erwan Le Corre, MovNat Founder To be physically healthy and capable is like being in a relationship. You don’t love a person by just making a single grandiose love declaration with a letter, a magnificent bouquet of flowers and a special gift – and then...
Movement Preparation for a Natural Movement Session
By Eric Brown, MovNat Expert Trainer and former Navy SEAL Yes, ideally you should be able to take action at a moment’s notice. And in a real-world scenario, you probably can. But there’s a difference between a real-world incident and a planned practice. And this is...
From Broken to Athens: How MovNat made me a Barefoot Runner
By Chris Redig, MovNat Master Trainer As the bus wound down the steep hills to the starting line of the Athens Classic Marathon, I thought this is crazy. I tried to imagine the run back up to Athens. From mile six to mile nineteen, there would be a one thousand foot...
5 Natural Movements for Strength and Power
By Danny Clark, MovNat Performance Director & Master Instructor It’s a common question for men new to MovNat: “Can I gain or at least maintain my muscle mass?” The answer: Yes, and you can become twice as powerful. Acquiring strength and muscle mass is really...
Natural Movement VS Functional Movement: What’s the Difference?
By Danny Clark, MovNat Performance Director Two people start a new program aimed at improving their fitness, movement skill, and overall quality of life. One ends up in a gym advertising “functional movement” and the other in a gym that advertises “Natural Movement.”...
Lessons Learned From My Experience at the MovNat Level 3 Certification
By Nick Fialcowitz, Level 3 MovNat Certified Trainer When people ask me about my trip to New Mexico for my MovNat Level 3 experience, I tell them “Unbelievable”. I tell them “I’m going to need more then a few minutes to explain my experience” because I don’t want to...
MovNat Combatives: A Tool For Survival
By Vic Verdier, MovNat Master Instructor Like many things in life, people enjoy over-complicated solutions to a simple problem. That’s how the American space program spent a ton of money developing a pen that could work in any position and in zero gravity in space,...