Wildfitness is a fitness holiday company with the aspiration to help people eat, move and live in harmony with nature. Find practical tips in our Wild Eating, Wild Moving & Wild Living sections, or go to our Wonderations category for more philosophical musings on nature, the wild, our health, the role of science, the meaning of life etc! Enjoy and please let us know what you think.

Wild Earth - How nature affects our health

Biophilia – Love of Living Things

Our food, our medicine, our energy, our water and our stuff all come from the earth. But also, we are directly and immediately affected by nature as soon as we come into contact with it. Even your die-hard city slicker will feel better after a walk outdoors with trees [...]

Why good health is infectious

Our personal health is intrinsically linked to that of the people around us. Looking at our individual health in isolation doesn’t make sense from a common sense, evolutionary or scientific point of view. Unless you live alone in a lighthouse.

The common sense

- When your flat mate has a cold – you’ll probably get it too. [...]

Play. It's serious stuff.

 

Exuberant Animal seminar in London

Back in April Wildfitness hosted the first Exuberant Animal seminar in the UK and we got to hang out with one of our gurus, Frank Forencich. We played all day in the park and ended up feeling tired and elated at the end of the day. And sore for about 3 days [...]

No pain, no gain?

Matt on a Wildfitness course in Crete

It’s cool (and rare unfortunately!) when a journalist “gets it”. So often journalists who cover Wildfitness can’t seem to stay away from the fitness clichés… playing up how tough the training is and focussing on how skinny they got. So it was a nice relief to read the great coverage [...]

Born to breath-hold?

Breathing we can just let happen, like a wild human would, but we can also control it (like a super wild person).  We can learn how to use our breathing to gain powerful effects on the body: to switch us into a deeply calm state, to bring in more oxygen to our cells and to [...]

Augusto's Breathing Exercise

The Freediving Two-Section Breath Up
(Stomach & Chest)

Hopefully you’re convinced of the benefits of breathing techniques (if not read our blog post Born to breath-hold? ), so here’s one to try.  This is a technique recommended by Wildfitness Coach, Augusto, who is also a professional free-diving instructor.  While it is a technique from free-diving, it is easy to master [...]