Somatic Exercises to Streamline Your Walking for Ease, Speed, Balance, and Agility

If you do a movement element like any of these, you characteristically do it more or less easily, with more or less strength, with slower or faster spontaneity, more or less whole-body integration. By doing these exercises for a time, intentionally feeling what you're doing continuously, you spontaneously have impulses to synchronize all the movements. You let go of tensions that make you stiff, slow, or ponderous and you bring yourself together into a better-integrated whole. You move more easily with faster yet well-balanced "from thought-into-motion" spontaneity, with secure strength, and more sustained stamina.

Imagine that -- by imagining it. What would you be like, if seen from outside yourself?

You first rehearse and then perform orchestrated walking-movement patterns that have a high potential for harmonious rhythm. By repeated practice, your movements become better and better harmonized; you form new muscle/movement memories that shape how you walk and how you look and feel. With ongoing practice, your feel for these exercises comes into better focus. You feel more all-put-together. Walking feels good and your walking looks good. You can feel where your "walking power" comes from and how little of it is used when you walk. You can be quick and speedy. You realize that these orchestrated walking movements led to a more harmonious, rhythmic, balanced, and easy way of moving.

So, for fun, you alternate repeatedly between the new, more harmonious and free way and the old, less harmonious, less rhythmic way -- inducing a further change in you. A surprise.

The Gyroscopic Walk

If you find The Gyroscopic Walk fatiguing, SuperWalking is the way to go, first.