Movementum has officially launched!

Welcome to the first blog since we officially launched Movementum!

We decided to create a journal where we’ll share our blogs and videos about the concepts around natural movement and lifestyle, the AiM philosophy around pain & injury as well as some behind the scenes of us when we’re performing and choreographing.

We wanted to create a place where we could curate content and go more in-depth with our philosophy around our work, and develop our own thoughts by sharing research in the hope it’ll be of interest to you and answer some common questions we hear people talking about.

WHO ARE MOVEMENTUM?

We are Frances and Billy and for a little bit more about us, you’ll find it here.

FRANCES | I come from a background of bodywork, having trained as a Thai massage therapist, an AiM practitioner and MovNat Level 2 coach. I’m interested in connecting dots between concepts and reminding people that, like me, you can start to get fit at any age. 
I love reading and spent a lot of my early 20s traveling and working on organic farms across Europe, after studying Permaculture.

BILLY | I spent my teenage years playing a lot of computer games and climbing. I loved climbing so much I ended up competing on a national level until a broken collarbone put me out of action, so I instead trained as an Electrical Engineer. I fixed trains for a while until I realised I wasn’t really that happy and embarked on a new journey that’s led me to becoming a performer and natural movement & lifestyle coach.

All the years of competing left me dealing with the classic repetitive and recurring injuries athletes often get - shin splints, tendonitis and weird aches and pains that never quite go away, so after having no sucess with the conventional physio, massage and rest routine I found out about natural movement, and the deeper I went into the practice, the better my body felt.

Being a millenial, growing up I wasn’t allowed to play outside alone and grew up indoors and often in front of a computer screen eating too many cookies. I beleive that most of my health problems (flat feet, viral infections, gut issues and allergies) were caused by that lifestyle and make a conscious effort to combat the effects of a sedentary childhood by spending as much time outdoors in nature as possible and feel a lot healthier and happier for it!


WE’LL BE BRINGING YOU TIPS ON HOW TO INTEGRATE NATURAL MOVEMENT INTO DAILY LIFE AS WELL AS VIDEOS ON HOW YOU CAN MINIMISE THE CHANCE OF PAIN & INJURY THROUGH SMALL SHIFTS IN YOUR LIFESTYLE.


You’re not too old, too injured or too unfit to change; it is possible wherever you are now and progressive, systematic change is safe and accessible and has the most chance of sticking long enough to reap the benefits (remember those January gym memeberships you promsied yourself you’d definitely use?).

With the arrival of the age of the internet and new media, there’s a lot of voices and pulls on us and we want this Journal to be curated, bringing you videos and blogs that are easy to read and also make you think and question accepted norms; we want to share with you our journey of transitioning out of the sedentary lifestyle; to use the current on-trend phrase, to re-wild.