Movers + Mavericks

Thoughts on Patrick Mckeown podcast with Chris and James

Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast Todays episode is the breathing equivalent of finding the last Panini football sticker for the World Cup book. It comes as no surprise if you are a regular listener that we have a keen interest in breathwork and the many methods and applications of this performance super power we all have access to. The weMove journey literally began in the house of Wim Hof as he was the cover star for the first print issue we produced. Over the course of the journey we have become good friends with the other masters of breath from Nicola Price to Brian Mackenzie and Rob Wilson, Leo Daniel Ryan and Eddie Stern. And today is the missing sticker. Patrick McKeown. International best-selling author of The Oxygen Advantage and creator and master instructor of the Oxygen Advantage® technique, Patrick McKeown is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading breathing re-education experts. Whether you’re a weekend warrior or an Olympic athlete, McKeown teaches you a fast, simple, and certai

Thoughts on Nia Davies podcast with Chris and James

Hey there are welcome to the weMove podcast.Plants are being talked about a lot, from plant based diets to the healing power of medicinal plants that there must be and is from our experience something in it, and so following on from Maribeth Helens podcast last week Chris is keeping the conversation in the plant world with a focus on CBD, the cannabis family  derived extract which is gaining momentum as a super plant that can be used for pretty much anything from anxiety to sore muscles. When we are in the US CBD is included in pretty much anything you can imagine but there are various strengths, types, flavours brands and to be honest it has been quite confusing to us and others even those selling it. Today Chris sat with Nia Davies the founder of the Yugenial CBD brand here in London to discover her journey to the plant, her crossover from studying medicine to starting Yugenial, how it has helped her and others and what to look for in your choice.We will be releasing more conversations along the power of pl

Thoughts on Maribeth Helen Keane podcast with Chris and James

Welcome to this week's we move podcast. Today's conversation marks a gentle beginning to a Discovery in our own lives that has become really important to us in an our journey to making sense of the world of physical culture and the contemporary drive for success which emphasises the importance of intensity. And increasingly we experience the opposite when spending time with those people that we respect and admire for what they have done or are doing. They are living with intention as opposed to living intensely and are applying a generous dose of self-care in order to nourish their physical and mental states. And this-results, in an ability to listen and feel the innate wisdom that we have within our bodies to guide us in how we live, train, move, work and be in relationship with one another. And this conversation has come about through a chance purchase by Chris of a very simple unassuming ‘zine found in a store 12 months prior and it made a very real impact on him, so much so that he reached out t

Thoughts on Troy Casey Podcast with Chris and James

Welcome to the weMove Podcast. Last week we spoke with Jill Miller about the importance of creating a safe space for the body to release and let go of the tension it holds unnecessarily. This week we follow that up with Troy Casey aka @certifiedhealthnut who we ice bathed, and sat with in the glorious Californian sun to hear his route from hedonistic model to a being focussed on the true essence of being a healthy self, and that is to heal thy self. Troy is a CHEK practitioner, fitness and lifestyle coach who looks the result of the protocols and practices he teaches. Both Chris and I were unsure of what to expect when we turned up in Venice, based on his instagram account. Well looks can be deceiving and what followed was such a clear story of his progression from the party hard model to the conduit to support others on their journey to good health. We talk health and healing protocols, plant medicines from simple herbs to the powerful and sacred Ayahuasca and equally importantly the spaces that he and his n

Thoughts on Jill Miller Podcast 

Welcome to this weeks weMove podcast. Is something in your body hurting or not clicking right, are you ready to unwind your old assumptions about your body and movement to move forward. This episode might be just what you re looking for. On reflection into how I have tended to do things, I have, up until the last few years been very singular in my activities, life was all about climbing, then about developing a business, that led to running and on and on this went until I felt like I got to the end of the tracks for that way of being. I had no idea what the cost was of the movement/activities I was doing because that was all I was doing. In every instance it led to imbalances and an inevitable break down of the vehicle I was travelling in. My body. And lo and behold this episode is about ways and strategies to regain balance, resilience and connection to what can be done. We are speaking with Jill Miller co-founder of Tune Up Fitness Worldwide and creator of the self-care fitness formats Yoga Tune Up® and The

Thoughts on Coach PJ Nestler podcast with Chris and James

How much in your life do you do that just sucks or you go out of your way to avoid? For the most part we live in or very close to, states of underlying fear, overwhelm and anxiety and they affect our ability to live in our potential and take ourselves to another level. It isn’t the removal of the situations which cause these states that is the key but rather developing the ability to stay calm within ourselves and adapt to the situation which presents itself and move through it with the minimum amount of friction. And we can do this with the right training, the right people around us and as our mentor Tony Molina says, when we have got to the point where we know that change is required and we no longer want to go on living the way we are. And it is under that premise that we release this weeks conversation with performance director for the performance and longevity protocol XPT, Coach PJ Nestler. We have watched XPT develop for a few years now and with two of our good friends @kimmy.moss and @richienorton_ XP

Thoughts on Kimmy Moss Podcast with Chris and James

This weeks podcast is with Kimmy Moss who is one of the team at Deuce Gym, founder of Breath & Exposure and a kindred spirit for her love of the ice bath and what it does for anyone who steps in and goes inside. We met Kimmy like many of our LA friends through Carl Paoli when he hosted his new seminar the Freestyle Insider in London back in early 2019. Shared ideas and a connection over soccer, for Chris and Kimmy at least led us to want to sit down with Kimmy when we were back in LA and hit record. We talk about her transition from the soccer field to the position of coach and how this has created within her a definite ability to support her athletes to realise something more within themselves, the hidden potential that lies deep beneath the layers of our conditioning and what we think we can do. That idea is something Chris and I believe greatly in and that is also the challenge that we all face to realise the potential inside, the challenge being peeling back those layers that we add over time. And thi

Thoughts on Caro Burckle podcast with Chris and James

Hey There, and welcome to this weeks episode on the weMove podcast. This is the third podcast from our recent trip to the US.Back in Issue 1 we hung out with Carl Paoli, the former gymnast, turned movement specialist. He said often that we should move by feel, and that whilst there are principles of movement, these are often lost in the desire to follow the method verbatim, with little appreciation for the principles which the method is based upon. Inevitably this leads to a robotic like pursuit of something that is unknown, a hollow approach to experiencing something so physical. And that is where we are exploring today with former Olympic swimming medalist, Caro Burckle. For an Olympian athlete under the spotlight, she experienced the intensity required to meet the requirements of others. The requirement to win, and with it the mechanistic approach that performance is given, forgetting the importance of feel and focussing on splits, times, weight and distance. Caro’s performance lay in her intuitive approac

Thoughts on Cara Miller and Logan Gelbrich podcast with Chris and James

Hey there and welcome to this weeks weMove podcast and this is the second podcast from our 2019 US trip. For those new to listening our intention with the podcast and the publications is to inspire and nurture through movement but more often than not we realise that movement is just a tool to strip away the layers of our identity in order to get to our true potential. This episode started off in the movement space with our friendship with one of the guests that has led on to a deeper understanding of what he is building in the physical culture space with his growing number of gyms, strengthening culture and thriving community, and more importantly the principles behind it. Because the principles enable us to go beyond what we thought was possible, and going beyond rarely goes in the way we have been told to expect it and what we talk about in this episode is no different. In San Diego we sat down on the comfy seats of Cara Millers office with Logan Gelbrich to talk why constructive criticism won’t move the ne

Thoughts on Mark Twight and Micheal Blevins podcast with Chris and James

This episode is taken from our most recent trip to the US. Every time we go away it’s a new trip with new insights and new perspectives. Increasing our awareness of the connections between the methods and ideas of the creators. Relentless in their pursuit of the creative endeavor. Their art form if you will. This was the midway point of our road trip having come from Colorado, through New Mexico and then across the mid West to Salt Lake City Utah to meet Mark Twight and Michael Blevins. For some these names will mean nothing, for others who were climbing in the 90’s Marks name will ring a bell and for others who are fully in the deep end of physical culture Mark created Gym Jones. An idea and philosophy of training, constantly asking questions and testing ideas formed from the depths of pushing and suffering in the mountains. Mark met Michael through Gym Jones and these two went forward creating something purer, deeper and richer in the world of physical culture with Nonprophet, an evolving stable of mediums,