Movers + Mavericks

Welcome to another episode from our Thoughts on series. For those of you who have listened to The Rewire Project episode you might remember that Tony talks about the way to create adaptation in the body in physical, and other ways is to directly stimulate the brain, hence the name Rewire Project. Now this doesn’t require a bunch of electrodes into the brain and some Cold War era experiment and that leads us to this episode, way back before weMove became what it is I was introduced to a couple of osteopaths who started to switch me on to working with the body in order to optimise its function. One of the two osteos was and is Troy Bradley, who based in Brighton has worked worked with top flights sports people to give them boosts in performance that almost seem like magic. The sessions I had I experienced the effects of visual acuity practices and restoring connection in the body to our sensory input of hands, feet, eyes and skin. My balance improved, my imbalances and slight twists in the body caused by years

Thoughts on Jeremy Brook podcast with Chris and James

This weeks episode is with Jeremy Brook, aka SpineChecker. We are talking health, but not in the way of what to eat to be healthy.Health is the underlying reason why we move these days, it isn’t so much to escape predators and yet so many people walk around in a sub optimal state of health, hovering just north of being ok with no obvious illness, condition or worse.Health comes down to a personal philosophy and paradigm. Are you pro active or reactive in your approach to health? Most people are ok with being one step above zero. Our bodies as we are learning more and more tell us exactly what we need to know about how we are running.Whether we listen, want to listen or take the time to check in with ourselves is another matter. Today we catch up with Jeremy Brook who me met in the tight knit community that is Deuce Gym in LA. He goes by the moniker on instagram as Spinechecker and yes he looks after not just the spine but the entire body as a forward thinking chiropractor. And following in the path of the con

This week in our Thoughts on podcast we get the low down on the increasingly popular breathwork modality. From the Wim Hof method, BUteyko, Inspirational breathing, pranayama there are many techniques and coaches popping up all over. But what does each one do, are they different and what do you look for when going to a breathwork teacher, a class or wanting to chose the right one for you?We have been fortunate enough to speak to many breath expert, coaches and teachers and following from @_brianmackenzie podcast “Breath is Life” we contacted our good friend @iamleodaniel the Irish health and breathwork coach who has more experience with using breath to heal debilitating conditions than most and well connected with Brian, Wim etc.Leo takes us through the differences of the breathing techniques, what to look for to get the most from your experience and also the rarely talked about effects of breathwork which can range from boosting performance to releasing deep held trauma within the body. We are all breathing,

This week in thoughts on we are talking Process Or The process as we hear it.These two words conceal a world of reflection and adaptation in our approach to achieving our goals. In terms of application sport is a great analogy for many of us. The often short-sighted approach to sport is to focus on the outcome exclusively. Winning. Yet this approach will challenge us if chased without respect for how to get there and that is the process. The physical, mental and spiritual approach to realising potential which for a growing number of athletes and movers we speak to is the holy grail by which they measure their performance and progress.We catch up with Caroline Burckle, swimmer and Olympic medallist in the Beijing 2008 olympics. Olympic medal winning is from the outside the pinnacle and job done for an athlete but as we hear from Caro the way we approach is the key. These conceptual frameworks can often be challenging to grasp, requiring consistent sincere practice to integrate them in our daily lives but when

Thoughts on Brian Mackenzie podcast with Chris and James

This week we share our conversation with Brian Mackenzie.Brian is part of a select group of coaches who were involved in the early days of Crossfit and beyond. Brian has dabbled in ultra endurance events and worked with his a wife Erin Cafaro MacKenzie a two time Olympic Gold Medalist in Rowing on preparing for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.More recently he has become heavily involved in the importance of breathing for performance and as a byproduct health. He is working with some of the worlds leading athletes whilst researching and developing protocols to harness the benefits of breathing for boosting performance.What strikes a chord with Chris and I are the philosophical nature of Brian and others in his position. I am not sure if developing an understanding of the mechanics of breathing and its benefits creates this or simply a matter of time in the game. Most likely both.Having worked with some of the worlds best to achieve the impossible, Brian has a unique view of the world and takes this approach t

Thoughts on the Lindsey Matthews podcast with Chris and James

Hey there and welcome to Thoughts On, the short form weMove podcast where we expand on themes from our weekly podcast topic. This time reflecting on our conversation with Lindsey Mathews the founder of BIrthfit here we talke about the Complete Human experience that is birth, how we can support mothers to give birth and transition forward with this next level of strength that women have. To get another perspective we asked Sophie Whippy who is experiencing the motherhood transition from all angles as co founder of Londons Stretch Yoga studios, a doula herself and mum to two great young dudes on her experience as a mum, a yoga teacher and a doula. There is so much we as a culture have to learn in many areas and certainly as a guy and now a father, I want to understand more about the motherhood transition to share via this platform and increase the conversation amongst women and men about how to celebrate the strength of the human body. You can follow sophie on instagram @sophiewhippy and @stretch_london

Hey there, welcome to the weMove podcast.Something a little different but related to the year that we, well I had. This one is about the power of birth, the epic adventure it is and was very timely as I became a dad a 6 weeks before hand. Watching my partner give birth to our boy, the lead up to it, the act of it and the post birth or post partum has taken me on a wild ride and that’s just my experience, let alone that of my partner. Truly amazing and as life unfolds we are discovering many practices and people creating support networks for the act of birth and beyond and that leads us today. We are in conversation with Lindsey Matthews a doctor of chiropractic, birth doula, NLP practitioner, and strength and conditioning coach and founder of Birthfit. The brainchild of Lindse,y Birthfit is an eco system of all things birth prep and beyond termed by Lindsey and the team as the motherhood transition.Birthfit is a movement, an approach to birth, a state of readiness and a support team with a mission to cultivat

Thoughts on the Ron Kauk Podcast with Chris and James

Today in our thoughts on series we pick up on the concept of reflection spoken about in our time with Ron Kauk and a strong theme amongst all those we are meeting. Taking time to look at your past, present and future honestly and without judgement. The latter part being a real challenge as we, that is movers tend to be quite alpha in personality and want to constantly make progress. The purpose of reflection is to turn around, look how far we have come and take that forward. So we speak to an ascendant movement specialist Wil Brown. First spotted him on insta as I was working out handstands and things and he was heading to Australia to explore movement culture. Its been great to hang out a few time with Wil, incredibly accomplished already in his early twenties and yet super humble with an enormous appetite to learn. NO surprise and also quite surprising for his age, he uses the process of reflection during his coaching sessions and for his personal development to integrate the thoughts and emotions with the

Today in our thoughts on we speak to Lindsey Mathews the founder of Birthfit, doctor of chiropractic, doula, NLP practitioner and S&C coach on how she uses reflection to move her ideas and process forward.We will be speaking to Lindsey next week in our main podcast, and thought it the right time to ask her about her daily reflection process that she posts as her Coffee Talk series on her instagram stories daily. Posing questions and thoughts for others to reflect on to support them in their process.You can follow Lindsey on instagram @lindsey_k_mathews

Today we are with the Yosemite climber Ron Kauk. Ron pushed the limits of climbing in Yosemite during the ascendance of the sport and paved the way to some extent of what we see now inspiring climbers of our generation Tommy Caldwell, Alex Honnold to create the next level of what is possible on the soaring granite walls of Yosemite and the wider world. Chris and I met Ron 3 years ago by chance. He was giving a talk in Yosemite on the few days we were there and as we sat there listening to his ideas of nature, how it has changed and what climbing has taught him about how to be a complete human we turned to each other and said we have got to spend a bit more time with Ron. WE hung out with him and featured him in Issue 1 alongside the lessons from Yosemite which we learned in our 3 day trip.Well that was 3 years ago and on our again impromptu stop of in Yosemite we sent him a text to see if he was around for a coffee. He was and we spent the rest of the day talking from daylight to darkness and wished we had re

As we start the new round of podcasts exploring the ideas of a Complete Human Experience, this podcast with Arthur Joseph, founder of Vocal Awareness and is the third in the series post after Jamie Wheal's. We talk about the ideas which jumped out at us during the conversation with Arthur and connect it back in to where we are heading with weMove.

This week in EQUIP we hear from the man behind So We Flow, the yoga brand for men with movement in mind. We met Jake in 2018 when he was launching the brand and in the yoga world what he was doing felt rather unique. Simple workwear styles for men who do yoga. So simple in fact that that is their genius and their pants are some of the best climbing pants we have had and not a purple in sight.Like the brand itself, Jake is super mellow, straight forward and a pleasure to talk to, even though we did this Q&A remotely. See more of what they do on soweflow.com

Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast.This next podcast was initially out of left field. Our voice is unique to us and often is hidden behind a version of ourselves we think the world wants to see. When we are not ourselves, our voice changes and when we discover our true voice then we step into our self, becoming heard by others and able to communicate clearly the ideas we have and the person we truly are.We were introduced Arthur Joseph the leading vocal coach in the US quite possibly the world and founder of the Vocal Awareness methodology. During the conversation we were pretty quiet and when we did speak, Arthur would coach us much like the conductor of an orchestra, and there is a point where the sound I make when I speak does not sound like me, it didn’t feel like my normal self, instead something much calmer and more assured. Very strange and yet enough for me to felt he effect of developing how I communicate with myself and others.The connection for us with the people we are meeting is the conn

We ask Logan Gelbrich founder of Deuce Gym and Captain of the process, on his thoughts on how our ego can hinder our performance and sabotage the path to performance and with that in mind what we can do to get the ego out of the way to do what we actually want to do which is improve and move forward. This episode of Thoughts on follows the Finding Flow podcast with Jamie Wheal as we pondered and chatted with listeners on the often blind obsession that can come with finding flow and being our best. Usually a result of our ego getting in the way. It might sound like we are in two different places during this podcast and that’s because we are. Using the power of technology to connect the weMove world together. We record these not as a conversation but as a series of emailed questions the guest records the answers to in the comfort of their own home. Follow logan @functionalcoach

This week in Thoughts on, we ask our cold water compadre and natural movement specialist Tony Riddle aka The Natural Lifestylist about movement and the play state. The thoughts on series is a result of wanting to go a little deeper and gain another perspective on themes which emerge from the main weekly podcast and this comes from our pod with Tony Molina founder of the Rewire project. Who said that the fundamental with people wanting to move is that they simply cannot very well. And that is the foundation and starting point for everything we do. It might sound like we are in two different places during this podcast and that’s because we are. Using the power of technology to connect the weMove world together. We record these not as a conversation but as a series of emailed questions the guest records the answers to in the comfort of their own home. Follow tony @thenaturallifestylist

As we start the new round of podcasts exploring the ideas of a Complete Human Experience, this podcast with The Rewire Projects Tony Molina is the second in the series post after Jamie Wheal's. We talk about the ideas which jumped out at us during the conversation with Tony Wheal and connect it back in to where we are heading with weMove.