A study of over 400,000 middle-aged adults found that brisk walking is associated with slower biological aging. A major reason is that moderates the effect of oxidative stress and inflammation.

The difference between slow and fast walkers is the equivalent of 16 years in predicted lifespan.

Walking to Vitality Workshop

A six-part Interactive Workshop Online

Your posture and the way you walk make an impression on others. They speak to your physical and mental vitality.

Both have consequences for your ability to move with ease and your energy level. As a young adult, even small changes can signal a future of impaired mobility and even a compromised lifespan. Starting in mid-life, negative changes increase your likelihood of falling, joint problems, back pain, and walking vitality.

Elderly woman balancing on railroad tracks with arms outstretched, wearing jeans and a white shirt.

Overview of Walking to Vitality Workshop

This program is both preventative and restorative. It will rejuvenate your waking gait, posture and balance. We start with a session to regain good neuromuscular patterning and biomechanics. Then, you progress through a series to guided walks to music to make your new gait and posture your everyday gait and posture as well as improving your balance and agility.

Three people walking on a path near a lakeside with trees and mountains in the background.

What You Will Gain

Session One

An understanding of how posture, neuromuscular patterns, walking biomechanics, and balance change with age and the forces of modern life. Importantly, how to take preventative and corrective action.

Session Two

A rejuvenation of your optimal walking gait from a neuromuscular pattern and biomechanics perspective. Trying out the new gait, feedback, and exercises to make it permenant.

Session Three

Ways your stride and walking speed for cardiovascular fitness and more agility.

Session Four

Walking meditation for brain health and emotional vitality while making good posture and walking well your everyday way.

Session Five

Everyday ways to improve and maintain good balance. Fun activities that enhance balance as well as having a positive impact on brain health and emotional vitality.

Session Six

Monitoring your progress through self-assessment and technology.