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Get Started with ChiWalking
Feel better. Get fit. Our mission is to help you develop the skills you need for safe and healthy walking practice. Beginning with technique, you’ll feel stable, and use your body in the way it was designed to move.
Align Your Body
Good posture is the cornerstone to walking with ease. ChiWalking teaches you how to physically maintain great structural alignment which allows your muscles to relax and allows your chi energy to flow freely throughout your body.
When your muscles relax, you tap into the natural strength of your skeletal system, and your life-force energy is flowing, walking feels easy and brings you more joy.
Align Your Mind
Mind-body alignment is an essential ingredient to any successful fitness program. In ChiWalking, we call this mind-body skill Body Sensing. We teach you how to “listen” to your body, and use that information to direct your body to make positive changes in its movement.
This communication link between your mind and body will keep you informed and improve your ability to solve for any discomforts that crop up when you’re walking.
Get Physically Fit
With good ChiWalking technique and open communication between your body and mind, you’ll be able to adjust your body-mechanics to prevent and avoid injuries.
With aches, pains and injuries becoming a thing of the past, you’ll experience the freedom and consistency you crave. That consistency will enable you to reach those fitness goals while feeling good every step of the way.
Enjoy the Process
Self-satisfaction is at its best when you are taking good care of yourself. Good ChiWalking technique will create ease and comfort in your body while walking.
A strong mind-body connection will create a level of self-awareness that will keep you feeling confident and energized. Walk after walk, your process will bring you joy.
choose your starting point
Whether you’re new to running or new to ChiRunning, your world is about to change for the better.
Beginning Walker
Walk Your Way to Wellness
ChiWalking unlocks the hidden potential of walking by exploring all its vast possibilities. With ChiWalking, you’ll get in prime physical shape, strengthen your life force, increase your energy, and be inspired for a lifetime.
Whether you are a fitness walker already, want to manage or release weight, are rehabilitating after illness or injury, or want to stay active while you age, ChiWalking will help you reach your personal goals, including looking and feeling better than ever.
Walk The Way You're Meant to Walk
The stresses of life have a cumulative effect on the amount of muscular tension we hold in our bodies. Most of us have taken on movement patterns that are constricted, at times to the point of being detrimental to our health.
Becoming a better walker is not dependent on how fast or how far you can walk, but on how well you can listen to your body and how well you can respond to its needs. With the ChiWalking technique, walking becomes easier on your body while helping to eliminate the aches, pains and discomfort of walking incorrectly.
Walk Your Way
The ChiWalking program offers 12 different types of walking workouts to create a balanced and exciting health program. The “menu” of walks includes: a Cardio Walk, an Aerobic Walk, a Flexibility Walk, a Loosening Walk, a Focusing Walk, an Energizing Walk, a Walking Meditation and more.
The walks are presented in the ChiWalking book in a detailed and understandable way, then summarized in an easy to read matrix which shows the key benefits of each walk.
Harness the Power of T'ai Chi
ChiWalking has within it the deep philosophical and psychological attributes of the centuries-old practice of T’ai Chi, which presents the opportunity for spiritual exploration and the integration of body, mind and spirit.
ChiWalking takes the benefits of walking beyond cardiovascular, aerobic and mental health, by addressing the needs of your whole person; joints and muscles, body and soul.
Walk a 5K
Walk Your Way to the Finish Line in 8 Weeks
ChiWalk your way to success as you finish a 5K feeling fresh on your feet. 5K’s aren’t just for runners anymore. If you’re looking to get into the action and attend an event feeling well-trained to cover the distance, our ChiWalking Workbook is the place to start.
Over the course of 8 Weeks, you will learn the ChiWalking technique while gradually increasing your endurance so you can walk pain and injury-free at your 5K, and for many years to come.
Put Chi in Your Step
Combine walking with the many benefits of T’ai Chi to make walking a super charged, easy-to-learn fitness program.
A 5K doesn’t have to be intimidating–with ChiWalking, you can walk effortlessly and effectively while improving your overall health.
Reach Your Goals
Whether you are a fitness walker already, want to manage weight, are rehabilitating after illness or injury, or want to age actively, ChiWalking will help you reach your personal goals, including looking and feeling better than ever.
Walk Your Best 5K
Get started with the ChiWalking 8-week program. You’ll get step-by-step instructions for each workout, a DVD and a workbook that inspires and supports your progress. At the end of 8 weeks you’ll be walking a 5K (3.1 miles) and have the skills to keep you healthy for a lifetime.
Walk to Run
Get the Best of ChiWalking & ChiRunning
Chi Walk-Run is a series of short runs interrupted by walking breaks. This allows your body to easily adjust to regular workouts and builds your cardio-aerobic conditioning. The goal of our Walk-Run program is to eventually get you running consistently with confidence and ease!
One of the benefits of the walk-run approach is that whether you’re walking or running, many of the technique focuses you’ll be learning are the same for both.
Throughout your fitness journey, be kind to your body by remaining mindful of these 3 key areas:
Core Strength
Just like in T’ai Chi, you will create stability and maintain alignment using your core muscles. This allows your propulsion to come from your forward fall, rather than from pushing with your legs.
Flexibility
Build your body’s foundation using gradual progress. Start from where you are and gradually add in distance and speed while listening to your body. You have the freedom and flexibility to create a practice you love.
Aerobic & Cardio Capacity
ChiWalk and ChiRun intervals allow you to build your aerobic capacity one step at a time. You will move fluidly between the two to give yourself a rest when needed, and the speed when you desire.
Jumpstart Your ChiWalking
Learn to blend walking with the movement principles of T’ai Chi to create balance and strength, to improve overall health, and to manage stress.
Chi Walking combines the inner focus and flow of T’ai Chi with the healthfulness and energy of walking to create a ground-breaking technique that makes walking more enjoyable.
