Walking with Glenn Berkenkamp
35 Wellness Walks to Expand Awareness, Increase Vitality, and Reduce Stress
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- $17.99
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
Over 35 mindful walking exercises for finding balance, building awareness, and reducing stress—from a wellness teacher and fitness expert
Glenn Berkenkamp invites us to discover how we sense, move, think, and feel in our bodies. By reframing the joys and opportunities presented to us by the act of walking, he shows us how to become reflective and inwardly directed, even as we take in the world around us.
With 35 different walks, and with the help of a “Which Walks to Do When” user guide, Glenn gives us options for every occasion and emotion. Feeling off-center? Try a centering walk. Feeling down? Lift your spirit with a gratitude walk or a prayer walk. There are walks for listening, grounding, and grieving, as well as rain walks, full moon walks, mindful dog walks, and more. He includes walks for all ability levels, including fun walks for children.
As we walk with Glenn, we settle, clarify, and balance our bodies, minds, and spirits—opening to new perspectives and possibilities we didn’t know were there.
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Former bodybuilder Berkenkamp (Mastery) suggests 35 "guided wellness walks" in this enjoyable work. Berkenkamp posits that walking is a way to "cultivate the ability to... understand and discover how you move, think, feel, sense, and operate in your body" and can lead to "a greater sense of awareness and presence." He covers the basics of body mechanics and offers advice on choosing the right footwear and clothing, and asks that readers, before they set out to walk, "feel the connection of your feet to the ground," find one's breath, and "sense the space around you." The final chapter contains ideas for walks centered on "deepening physical life experience" primarily through connecting to nature; each is introduced by an epigraph and rounded out with "Takeaways and Reflections." The "Affirmation Walk" presents mantra techniques for self-healing, with suggested mantras of "I get stronger everyday" and "life works." Berkenkamp includes outdoor and indoor walks, such as walking meditations that offer a "there and back style" and a "circle style" for building and maintaining focus within just 30 feet of space. Walks centered on grieving, forgiving oneself, and natural elements (such as rain or the full moon) are also included. While the proposed walks are intriguing, many of the touted benefits (to ground, calm, and help readers maintain focus) and takeaways (the "interconnected, all-is-one' manner" of nature) become repetitive. Mindfulness newcomers will enjoy Berkenkamp's suggestions for stress reduction.
