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 New Year's Resolutions

Try a Wild New Year challenge

Please NO NO NO  not another year gone by… well I’m afraid it has – but here’s a thought .. it is a new year, time for a resolution, a goal, something to make 2012 stand out against other years – so what’s it gonna be – [...]

The Wild Wisdom in Traditional Recipes

People on traditional diets are the world’s leading healthy populations.

When people depart from their traditional diet, the majority of them get sick: from obesity, heart disease, dental malformation and a whole host of modern chronic diseases.

Why?

There are several hundred documented inconclusive theories postulating different reasons why. Whatever the reason (although we must always [...]

Inspiring Books

As natural approaches to fitness and evolutionary science gain momentum in the mainstream consciousness, a feast of wonderful new books abound. Being an avid reader (this is Tara writing), and someone who can be deeply inspired by the written word, it is a pleasure to present some reviews of books that have influenced the Wildfitness [...]

Tara on the Isle of Wight

(Tara Wood, founder of Wildfitness, recently attended a press weekend for the new 2012 Wildfitness location on the Isle of Wight. The 3 day Energizer course on the Isle of Wight is the brainchild of Netta and Ro Pakenham-Walsh, who grew up as “Islanders”. Here is Tara’s story…)

As always before attending a Wildfitness course I [...]

Physical Enlightenment

Natural intense physical movement – why is it not in the bible?

Most people contact fitness people, like personal trainers or fitness holidays such as Wildfitness in order to get fit (very insightful Tara). They want to get bigger, smaller, faster, or more functional. Most people don’t get in touch with us because they [...]

The Wild Mindset

In the 10 years that Wildfitness has been running, we have cut loose more and more from the tethers of the ‘old paradigm’ of fitness. We have been inspired by the spontaneous and purposeful variety of physical activity undertaken by natural tribal people that results in graceful, skilful and beautiful physicality. And we [...]

Tara's Story - My WF Course in Kenya

Every year Tara Wood, founder of Wildfitness, plays the role of guest and completes a Wildfitness course in its entirety – what better way to know exactly what our guests have to go through?! However this year, because of certain circumstances, she was incredibly nervous at the outset. Her experience turned out to be tougher [...]

Raw vs Cooked: Our Practical Tips

One thing we aim to do on our courses is to help Wild Ones assess the fitness and diet fads out there and arrive at a few simple truths about healthy human eating. There has been lots of debate about the pros and cons of raw-food only diets and of cooking, so here are our [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]