Natural Movement Club
Dates: Fridays, 8:30 – 9:30 am
Location: Winston Prouty Campus, 209 Austine Drive, Brattleboro, VT
Cost: Free!
Ages: Adults and older teens
The modern “movement diet” is fairly limited. We wake up, drive to work, sit down at work, maybe do an exercise routine at the gym, sit down again in the evening, lie down for the night, and then do it all over again!
In this club we’ll learn to enrich and diversify our movement diet. We’ll engage our whole bodies in a wide range of natural movements— improving our mobility, strength, and range of motion. We’ll learn to move like the animals we are!
All levels of experience and fitness are welcome! The club will allow each of us to choose the right level of challenge and/or comfort for our body on any given day.
What will a typical session include?
We’ll start with a grounding exercise that improves body awareness and alignment. This sequence of twenty movements inspired by twenty different animal forms is done standing in place. The 10-minute sequence can be easily integrated into your home mindfulness and/or movement practice.
We’ll then stretch to warm up all our joints, followed by some strength-building routines (leg lifts, pushups, squats, lunges, etc.) to get the blood moving.
The next half hour will be an opportunity to get more active. We’ll move around the lawns and forest trails trying out different movements, such as crawling, climbing, scampering, vaulting over logs, balance walking on fallen logs, learning different animal movement gaits, and more.
At the end of the hour we’ll spend 5 minutes cooling down and re-centering. The session ends at 9:30, but if you are inspired to stay and continue exploring the woods, you are welcome to!
Directions and Parking:
This club will take place outside, at the Winston Prouty Campus, 209 Austine Drive, Brattleboro, VT.
Drop-ins are welcome but 1st-timers are encouraged to email us at least 1hr before arriving, as we sometimes move away from the meeting spot pretty quickly. Before your first session you’ll be required to complete a short medical form/waiver, so please come a little early the first time.
Park in the lower lot (the first lot on the left after you enter the campus).
When the weather is too cold, rainy, or snowy to meet outside, we’ll meet indoors in the large room on the east side of Croker Hall. (Park in the lower lot, and walk up the long sidewalk following the “Vermont Wilderness School” signs.). However, our goal is to be outside as many weeks of the year as we can!