Walk your way back into balance.
“You’re not changing how you walk. You’re changing your body by walking.”
The Wheeler Walking Protocol is a short video course built on a theory: that how relaxed you are while you walk decides which muscles hold you steady, and that calm, unhurried walking can rebuild the quiet stabilizing muscles many of us lose with injury, age, or sitting.
Check your walk score (free)See the lessonsFree self-check
What is your walk score?
Have a helper film you walking past, from the side. The check scores your walk out of 8 and points you to the lesson to work on next.
Check your walk scoreThe theory behind a lower walk score, and how calm walking may help. About 4 minutes.
The idea, in brief
Two ways to stay steady
The theory: we stabilize ourselves one way when we rush (fight-or-flight) and a different way when we are relaxed (rest-and-digest).
We lose the relaxed set
With injury, age, or a sedentary life, the relaxed stabilizers fade and the rushing ones do all the work.
Walking to rebuild
Calm walking with diaphragm breathing and relaxed settling into the feet is meant to give the relaxed stabilizers their endurance back.
How the course works
Short vertical videos
Made for your phone. A few minutes each, with captions.
One step at a time
Four lessons, each split into short parts. Practice one part on your walks before moving on.
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Purchase and member login details go here.