About Walking

Walking has been proven to have a wide range of physical benefits, including lowering blood pressure, weight loss, stress management, and reducing the risk of stroke and heart disease. The FitzGordon Method amplifies the therapeutic effects of walking through conscious movement and a series of exercises designed to improve posture and increase core strength, resulting in enhanced movement patterns and superior muscular/structural integrity. Over the course of the program, clients will find their bodies in harmony as never before, with more energy, less muscle fatigue, and relief of lower back, shoulder, and other chronic joint pain.

Walking is fundamental. Over the course of a lifetime, we are likely to walk 25,000 miles. Even the most sedentary person walks an average of one mile a day. A process so critical to our daily lives should not be done without awareness, yet we stroll or limp through life not realizing that our walking pattern and posture affects our health and energy.

A carpenter finds a straight line to the earth by dropping a weighted string from a height. It falls straight down, with the flow of gravity. Imagine if your body lined up in that flow—your ears, shoulders, hips and ankles would all follow the plumb line of the body. Instead for most of us our calves fall backward, our thighs sink forward, our lower back overarches, our upper back rounds back and our head juts forward. What the FitzGordon Method does is align us with gravity, making it our ally instead of our nemesis.

Our posture determines our walking pattern. Stop for a moment and think: What is that pattern? Do you know why you move that way? One way we learn how to move is by imitating, at a very young age. The trouble is, we imitate unconsciously. If our mother or father or aunt walked with their feet turned out or if they were in an accident that affected their posture poorly, those are among the patterns that we may acquire. Coming to a deeper understanding of our relationship to these patterns and to an idea of what optimal alignment might be is a key part of creating positive change in the body.

The FitzGordon Method Core Walking Program teaches a natural walking technique that helps align your bones, free your joints and bring welcome relief to overused muscles. When the body moves as it is designed to, all parts work in harmony. Using the FitzGordon Method, we train you to bring your body into the state of balance that is individual, and healing, to you •

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