Do you love gardening, or want to start gardening, but you’re worried about hurting your knees and back?
Join Patrick Hogan, a Restorative Exercise Specialist and Natural Movement coach, in a workshop designed to introduce how the activities you love can also be what keep your body healthy and strong just by adopting some simple habits.
This workshop will be a “non-falling“ falling exploration. All are welcome no matter your age or confidence level as everything is scalable to meet your comfort.
Let's get together and walk the length of Manhattan along the Hudson River from Battery Park with views of the Statue of Liberty all the way to Inwood Hill Park where Manhattan meets the Harlem River. There we’ll finish with a bite at Inwood Farm Restaurant.
After the workshop, let’s walk!
To celebrate the Springtime, let’s gather our community together in nature and take a walk!
This event will be on: Sunday, April 17th from 3-5pm in Inwood Hill Park of Manhattan
This event will be on: Sunday, April 2nd 10-12pm at The Arden-Surebridge/ Long Path Trailhead at Lake Skannatati in Harriman State Park:
Be Fit To Be Helpful Event:
Trash & Log pick-up in Inwood Hill Park
After last week’s storm, there’s lots of debris and remnants of fallen trees on the paths of the park. Most of it has been cleared by now, but we may have an opportunity to move some logs and also do some regular trash pick-up in the park.
The activity of cleaning up a section of the park includes many movement possibilities:
Squatting
lunging
crawling
lifting & carrying
and more!
I’ll bring some small bags and gloves and we can choose one section of the park in which to work while we explore our movement capabilities!
The Be Fit To Be Helpful Premise:
A beautiful saying in the Natural Movement movement is “Be Fit to be Useful”. It suggests that our fitness isn’t for its own sake but becomes applicable in the actions we take in the world.
The amazing fact is that with some awareness and practice, the actions we take in the world will also make us more fit! This is an example of “stacking” - where one activity can serve multiple purposes.
In these events, we’ll play, explore, learn, and exercise by participating in activities to help our community.
An example might be:
By participating in a park clean-up we need to practice multiple movements such as lift, carry, squat, kneel, lunge, and walk.
The event will start with a warm up to explore the functional movements that our activity may require, then we’ll participate in the activity with an eye on our alignment and all the possibilities of variable movement within that activity. We’ll wrap up the session by reflecting on what we discovered and with some free-play movement exploration.
