We live in a Zoo
Posted | 30 commentsThe “zoo” is a modern, global and growing phenomenon generated by the powerful combination of social conventions, technological environment and commercial pressures. Increasingly disconnected from the natural world and their true nature, zoo humans are suffering physically, mentally and spiritually.
Are you experiencing chronic pains, are you overweight, do you often feel depressed or do you suffer from frequent illnesses and general lack of vitality?
These symptoms indicate that you are experiencing the zoo human syndrome. Modern society conditions us to think that this is normal and unavoidable.
We don’t think so. Our true nature is to be strong, healthy, happy and free.
We have designed a complete education system that empowers zoo humans to experience their true nature.
It is called MovNat.
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The possibilities of how things could be in the future is exciting!
I am looking forward to this.
I can’t wait for the seminar in Brazil!!
This looks really promising. I can’t wait either. Look at zoo animals and compare them to the free animals, that is how we are. Millions of years of evolution we are not intended to live in a zoo.
congrats for the great job!
hopefully I will be able to hit Itacaré later this year…
Most people need to be shown that there is another way to live and that convention isn’t always correct when it comes to our health and wellness. It really is our natural birthright to be strong, healthy, happy, and free.
I can see the introduction of MovNat as having far-reaching possibilities. I’ll do what I can to spread the good word!
All the best,
John Sifferman
Fitness Professional
Hello,
I learned about Movnat from the article in Men’s health. I have started using the exercises from the article, and now when I’m working I’m looking everywhere for places to movnat……. I hope you plan on having a seminar in the Boston area.
Thanks
Mitchell
The joy of human performance and physical movement. Fantastic work!
Wayne Loftus,
Fitness Trainer
Finally, a fitness regimen that gets you far away from the boredom of gyms and instead encourages you to play like a kid in the woods. Think of it: just how often do men climb trees? Run on all fours? How many of us are afraid to climb up ANYTHING due to the fact that it’s been years since we’ve done so? It’s seeing stuff like this that gives people hope for becoming better, more youthful, in body and spirit alike.
Wow! What a great away to get conditioned. Even though I go to the gym every morning, I have actually started using some of the exercises talked about in the Men’s Health article and shown in the video. At age 69, I am finding it easier to move, to get down and get up. I would sure like to pull myself “up and over” as shown in the video. Maybe by age 69 and a half.
Bob McMillan
The ‘global and growing phenomenon generated by the powerful combination of social conventions, technological environment and commercial pressures’ cannot be under estimated. Let us hope for our sake that ‘it’ does not have enough critical mass to render those who dare to think differently obsolete or worse, extinct.
I have always felt a certain emptiness in my life; however, when I go camping I feel complete, I feel empowered. After reading about this in Men’s Health, I have become transfixed…I have built my own course in my backyard and have spent more and more time outside. First chance i get i will be going to Brazil.
I am so excited about Movnat! I have preached for years to my clients how our domesticated life has become a crutch to our nature. I can not wait for the certification program. This is what humanity needs right now.
I found Movnat from a post at the cathletics.com website. I find it very intriguing and exciting. I’m doing Movnat-like workouts in the big public park next to my house . I , too , hope you can bring a seminar to the Boston area!
Looking forward to it.
Bill
I have always believed that true training is far superior to simply working out. I am glad to have finally found that there is a wide a growing community out there who feels the same. What’s the point of strength without the confidence and ability to use it?
Please bring a seminar to North Carolina!
I also found out about Movnat from the Men’s Health magazine and was very interested in all of the possibilities. Hope there will be a seminar and far more coming to New York/Long Island.
Wow, I’m glad to see so many people have been having positive experiences like I have since discovering MovNat. I can’t say that I’ve been able to incorporate all the moves into my workouts, but I have been trying to add things in. I simply add movements into my running workouts (I already run barefoot). I’ve lifted weights for several years, and I’ve never been this sore before. I am personally forcing myself to climb trees, as I am not only trying to work in MovNat, but also conquer my fear of heights and learn how to jump well.
Does anyone have any urban ideas? I’ve been working in stairs with different moves (hoping up 2 or 3 steps for a time), and jumping up to high five street signs (well stops signs anyway) as I run by them.
I guess I’ll put in the bid for a Texas seminar, I think East and North Texas would be especially great.
Like many, I saw the article in Men’s Health and thought ‘finally, somebody’s got it right’. We all kill ourselves in cubicles then go home to the couch! What happened to our child-like spirit and vitality? Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the gym and recently took off 40 lbs of unwanted fat to find my lean body underneath. Now, at 44, I feel better and younger than I have in 20 years. I’m keen to recapture the natural, instinctive moves that we had all mastered during our childhood, to help reverse what the daily demands of career take away bit by bit. The gym reps and exercise machines are an unnatural sustitute for what nature provides. I look forward to learning more about movnat in the coming weeks. Thanks.
As a former Army PT trainer, body builder and powerlifter I thought Crossfit was about as good as it could get in terms of making exercise fun and applicable to the demands of the real word. But even Crossfit is heavily dependent on barbels, kettle bells, rowers and glute-ham machines; not at all good subtritutes for logs, rocks, etc., but great in a pinch when you only have an hour in the middle of the day to exercise. The Mov-Nat approach looks so much better because it’s asking the body to do what it has evolved to do in the environment it evolved to do it in. Brilliant. I can’t wait for the Certification and to see how people introduce this to the mainstream.
Bring the certification to OREGON! OREGON coast would be the perfect place for MovNat!! Can’t wait to see information on the Brazilian Retreats and certification!
I read the Men’s Health article and knew immediately that this was it, a clear path forward. I run daily, swim and cycle regularly, and have done races and a triathlon years ago–but after many years (I am 44) I got to a point where besides trying to get fit for longer races or beat a personal best there were no exciting goals. I never was, or wanted, to be a serious competitor. Today I got out into the woods and improvised a movnat workout–it was awesome. I’d run a couple of miles to the forest, and felt tired by then, in part due to a poor night’s sleep last night. I almost turned around and ran back home. Instead I got into the forest, took off my trainers, and bounded up a trail, climbed, crab walked, sprinted, etc.–whatever I could think to do, and what the terrain permitted. It was the most incredible workout–incredibly fun and incredibly difficult. But what finally amazed me the most was that when I got out of the forest I realized I was totally energized–in fact, I have tons of energy when before I’d felt depleted. I easily made the run back home and haven’t felt tired since. I feel sure that had I just run back home instead of going into the forest for the movnat I would have been tired enough to sleep.
After trying a Mov-Nat workout today i can say this is the highest and most basic form of exercise. I felt good and content jumping and climbing in the woods. I am sold and will definitely try to go to a seminar.
I can’t wait for this site to be up and running. Like a lot of others I learned about MovNat from the Men’s Health article. It really struck a chord. I am always looking for ideas for workouts. I really prefer to be outside, I live in a small town in eastern Montana which provides a lot of areas for outside training. Not a lot for swimming, but we do have a small cabin at a nearby resevoir where we spend a lot of time in the summer. It would be great to get some ideas for indoor training too, as for 4 months out of the year it is usually 20-40 degrees F below freezing.
I have been working real hard the last 3 years to renovate and revive a truly natural approach of movement, exercising, health and life, so I sincerely want to thank you all for the tremendously positive feedback and want you to know that I am now working even harder to enable many to have access to this philosophy and practice.
You will have a metaphorical insight of this vision by reading my recent post “Natural Movement: A New Dawn.”
Bob, at 69, you are a true inspiration!
Are you going to be posting workouts and exercises for people to use on this site? This is an amazing idea – I’m really excited to try it and get out of the gym.
Yes but not an extensive free-lunch resource of information one can download for free in a simple click from home.
MovNat cannot be self-taught.
I am willing to help people that cannot attend seminars by sharing some basic training tips so they get started too, now nothing will ever replace direct coaching.
The more you will explore the potential thanks to these tips, the more you will understand you need to learn seriously more.
Some of us, actually a large and increasing number of us have become what we can or probably should see as a pathetic, unhealthy version of the healthy and energetic human beings our evolution and nature had designed us to be.
The point here is certainly not to judge or give hard time to anyone, but oppositely to provide a positive inspiration and motivation first, then rational and efficient solutions and simple, constructive alternatives to anyone willing to improve their lifestyle and reconnect to their true nature and become strong, healthy, happy and free again.
This approach is a philosophy called “True Nature” that is the foundation of MovNat. It is also an education/coaching/rehabilitation program.
It is not at all a radical approach preaching or demanding to go back to the wild and life in huts or caves, as this is an extremely long and difficult rehabilitation process, but to regain first our birthright of body mind health and vitality even within the Zoo.
Explore your true nature!
Please add me to your mailing list… my trainer has told me about you and I am extremely interested in your work. We have been doing some barefoot work in local park – my feet are reorganising themselves although throwing back out it’s all realigning itself. Brilliant! Thanks
This explains all my thoughts for the past 6 months into one simple statement. Lately I have become increasingly obsessive about the need for humans to rediscover their roots and remember where they came from. I have been really pushing my point across lately but found that 99% of people don’t want to listen, no matter how you bring your point across. It’s like people think they know. They believe that walking up a flight of stairs or doing the vacuum cleaning is enough exercise each day. I am now starting to believe that the only way to get the message across is to show them, but how do you get someone who ‘knows it all’ to watch. I think what your doing here is great, and would love to see you come to Australia…word has it we are now the fattest nation. This doesn’t surprise me. If we can bring health food into McDonalds, then we should be able to bring people back to their roots aswell…:) Cheers.
For years I have been googling more natural workouts and training methods.
I even had a strong vision and idea how it should be.
It was a strange but happy moment, finding perfectly explained on this MOVNAT website by Erwan what I always felt deep inside!
Go on Erwan and please bring some seminars to Europe !
Good Luck!