Reading Time: 6 minutesWhat it is and why you should sign up. When we started Wild Life about 6 years ago it was an alternative means to engage people with the outdoors. We had always experienced huge benefits ourselves from being in nature, and when we came on board to set up and run Drumnaph Nature Reserve weContinue reading “The 14 Day Wild Life Reboot”
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Four Of My Favourite Mobility Tools
Reading Time: 7 minutesWhen many people think of mobility they tend to think of stretching; you know, the classic sitting on the ground trying to grab your toes and making the pained grimaced face of someone who wished they had payed more attention to their flexibility years ago. And while stretching and flexibility definitely have their place withinContinue reading “Four Of My Favourite Mobility Tools”
5 Circles of Health – Movement Pt 2
Reading Time: 7 minutesWhat makes a movement practice? We are back again looking at the various elements that we consider to be vital for a healthy human movement practice. You can read part 1 here. We have already looked at the lower layer of the fitness pyramid; lots of general daily movement, mobility work, and low intensity cardio.Continue reading “5 Circles of Health – Movement Pt 2”
5 Circles of Health – Movement
Reading Time: 8 minutesWhat makes a movement practice? Today we are going to take a deeper dive into what makes up an ideal movement practice and what this might look like through a typical week. Movement is one of our 5 Circles of Health. These are the 5 areas that are vital to optimise human health, both physicallyContinue reading “5 Circles of Health – Movement”
The Wild Gym Part 2 – The Benefits and Code of Practice
Reading Time: 8 minutesSo we are back this week looking at the concept of the Wild Gym; practising and celebrating our body’s ability to move through it’s natural surroundings. In last weeks post we looked at just a few of the movements and naturally occurring things that we can utilise in our movement practices, from gentle balance andContinue reading “The Wild Gym Part 2 – The Benefits and Code of Practice”
The Wild Gym – Nature’s Gift for Natural Movement – Part 1
Reading Time: 9 minutesAs modern humans in western society we are very good at making excuses as to why we can’t do something. And when it comes to moving our bodies we are veritable experts at it, able to conjure up a whole cornucopia of reasons as to why we can’t do it. Some reasons are of courseContinue reading “The Wild Gym – Nature’s Gift for Natural Movement – Part 1”
Fruit Leather Recipe – The Perfect Little Sweet Treat From Nature’s Larder
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve never been a sweets kind of person. Chocolate, yes. That’s a gateway drug to oblivion for me. I end up coming to, smeared in cocoa, with an over-riding sense of regret and colonic soreness. But sweets not so much. Well, unless you count fizzy cola bottles. I love them. Can’t eat enough of thoseContinue reading “Fruit Leather Recipe – The Perfect Little Sweet Treat From Nature’s Larder”
Sorrel and Red Lentil Soup Recipe
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen I was walking with the dog this morning, stuffing my face with blackberries I noticed a fresh new crop of Common Sorrel growing up on the edges of the pathways that had recently been mowed. Glancing around I could see masses of the stuff bursting forth like little emerald starbursts in the grass. ArmedContinue reading “Sorrel and Red Lentil Soup Recipe”
Memento Mori – Death and the Art of Mindful Living
Reading Time: 7 minutes“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.” Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent The one and only thing we can have absolute confidence in is that, without a shadow of a doubt, one day we will die. It doesn’t matter whether you areContinue reading “Memento Mori – Death and the Art of Mindful Living”