Walking is good for you!

May 2024

How often to you go walking just for the joy of it?

We tend to think of walking as just a means of getting from A to B, to help us acquire something important from a local shop or to visit a friend. Because of this and the many transport options available to us in our modern world (that are often less energy intensive than walking) walking get's relegated to something we only do when we have to, or we have no better alternative.  

It is also true that many of us live in urban environments and cannot easily get out into nature to go for the kind of walk that would be more enjoyable. But what if it was walking that would keep us young, especially as we grow older, what if walking was a panacea with multiple health benefits, that is currently being overlooked by most of us?

Would we start walking more as a result?

In this month's SenseAbility we explore some of these questions through the lens of the Feldenkrais Method^® of somatic education, thinking about how we can use walking as a way to stay healthy, and reconnect us with ourselves and our environment. We also discuss the unique benefits of walking backwards, and why if you have not already tried it, you may want to after reading this edition of Senseability!

We start the edition with a great article written by Andrew Gibbons about why he is a big advocate of walking backwards. In the article he discusses how this strange looking practice has lots of practical benefits, and if you can get past the feeling of looking silly in front of your friends, family and neighbors, there may be many hidden benefits to walking in a way that is less familiar to your nervous system. 

We also have a lovely interview with Anastasi Siotas which uncovers some very of the reasons we get out of the habit of walking, what the negative consequences of not walking are and why walking may be the ideal solution to some of your movement related health issues. He also makes a great case for walking being the answer to the age old question, 'How can I stay active as I grow older?'. 

Enjoy your walk!

Jane, Michelle, Seth and Joe

This month Joe Webster interviews Feldenkrais™ Trainer Anastasi Siotas about Walking for Longevity. We discuss some of the many health benefits of making walking a bigger part of your day to day life, as well as some of the movement/health  consequences of not moving enough and being overly sedentary. Anastasi draws on his multiple years of experience as a Feldenkrais teacher and highlights some very interesting aspects of how we walk that help build the picture of why walking is such an important human action.

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