Movement Snacks is a daily 10 minute accessible movement practice that will kickstart your mobility and get you feeling good. If you are sat down for most of the day these are the snacks that you want to see you through and leave you feeling strong and pain free each day. They include breath work, nervous system resets, mobility, balance and strength. Movement Snacks gives you the tools to unwind the stiffness and rigidity developed from hours upon hours of sitting in chairs, cars, seats, couches and meetings.

Movement Snacks are your everyday moves for positive ageing. This course was created to support people who have busy lives and want or need to move their bodies but don’t have time to drive to the gym for an hour and drive back. It was also created for the person wanting to start moving or becoming more capable and not knowing how to start. Moving your body doesn’t have to be an all or nothing endeavor. Instead we are giving you the tools to unwind the stiffness and rigidity developed from hours upon hours of sitting in Chairs, cars, seats, couches and meetings. We are designed to move. The more we move the better we feel. Don’t be fooled by the sexy fitness adds on TV and magazines. It doesn’t have to be painful. In fact it can be really gentle. When I watch my one and a half year old develop from laying on his back as a toddler to now being able to run, jump crawl, and hang I marvel at how this happened. He didn’t go to baby workouts. There was no leaving it all on the gym floor. In fact he was able to develop that strength from the inside out over time. Through gentle movements often. He never destroyed himself, he simply moved for the enjoyment of moving and when he got bored he would stop. My point is that he is now more capable then most adults I know and he did it with joy. Repetition is perhaps the most intuitive principle of learning. In ancient Greece, Aristotle commented on the role of repetition in learning by saying “it is frequent repetition that produces a natural tendency” “the more frequently two things are experienced together, the more likely it will be that the experience or recall of one will stimulate the recall of the other” With Movement Snacks we are providing you with different movement skills Monday - Friday which you will repeat over the next month. This will allow you the repetition you need to give your nervous system enough exposure to own each move and become more capable. After all if you can’t get up and down off the floor you have just limited your freedom. The more freedom that you lose, the less options you have until one day you literally can’t move. This sounds far off for most but think for a second. If you can’t get up and down off the floor by yourself and you fall, you now have to have assisted living.

For most people they just don’t know where to begin and they look at their fitness journey as this monumental task. After the first few training sessions where they almost puked and can’t raise their arms because they are so sore, they quit. How can we pull off that big project or life goal? Mark Twain said, “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one”. Twain is absolutely right. But what comes next is just as important: repeatedly take action on the project. It’s through repetition that we rewire our brains. Doing something over and over, no matter how small, has a huge power. In The Power of Habit Charles Duhigg, says we have a limited amount of will power each day. But after we turn something we want to do into a habit, that limited will power can be used somewhere else. As your daily or weekly act becomes a habit, you have unleashed a life-changing power. With movement snacks you will have daily videos and drills to create movement as a habit. All you have to do is SEE and Do. The thing to remember is that it feels good to feel good. We hope you move with joy in your heart and a smile on your face. So connect with your body and enjoy the ride.