Natural Mobility

Natural Mobility I help people:
- Relieve chronic pain & tension
- Heal from & prevent injuries
- Move more naturally

The purpose of Natural Mobility is to help guide people in cultivating internal balance through the practice of movement and natural lifestyle. The desired result is to foster the ongoing development of practical strength, functional flexibility, and a deep sense of well-being, physical competence, and personal safety in both daily life and emergency situations. Natural Mobility strives to bring t

his shift of physical capability and personal development to as many people who are trying to make that shift as possible, writing regular articles and offering a lifestyle guide and tutorials for fundamental stretches, movements, and joint mobilization. For those who are in and around Toronto, in-person services are provided, which include group classes, personal training, and therapeutic treatments. These services are provided by Alex Schenker, MovNat Natural Movement Master Trainer, Bujinkan Shidoshi (martial arts instructor), and Licensed Shiatsu Therapist.

Feeling tightness or discomfort in your shoulders, chest, back, or arms? Join me in this full-length, guided self-Shiats...
01/26/2025

Feeling tightness or discomfort in your shoulders, chest, back, or arms? Join me in this full-length, guided self-Shiatsu routine to relieve shoulder pain, ease abnormal tension, and promote relaxation. In this follow-along session, I’ll show you simple yet effective Shiatsu techniques you can do at home to target key tension points and restore balance to your upper body.

Perfect for anyone dealing with stress, poor posture, or repetitive strain—this routine will leave you feeling lighter and more mobile. All you need is a comfortable space and your own hands. Give it a try and let me know what you think!

Feeling tightness or discomfort in your shoulders, chest, back, or arms? Join me in this full-length, guided self-Shiatsu routine to relieve shoulder pain, e...

This year, I have started a newsletter for my Shiatsu therapy clients. This newsletter includes self-care and wellness a...
01/10/2025

This year, I have started a newsletter for my Shiatsu therapy clients. This newsletter includes self-care and wellness articles, video tutorials for self-treatment, updates on my practice and availability, and other great resources and bits of info.

Here is the first issue, that includes an article compiling all of the self-treatment and mobility tutorials that I have put out of YouTube, so check it out, and let me know if you may like to join.

A Path to Wellness Through Healing Arts

Winter is touching down. How safe do you feel on an icy day? Learn how you can prevent winter injuries in this new artic...
12/14/2024

Winter is touching down. How safe do you feel on an icy day? Learn how you can prevent winter injuries in this new article:

In this article, we’ll look at five of the most common winter injuries, why they’re risky, and how to protect yourself.

Is athleticism and conventional fitness training really leading us to health, or is it leading us to injury and imbalanc...
10/28/2024

Is athleticism and conventional fitness training really leading us to health, or is it leading us to injury and imbalance? In my latest article, I explore how fitness culture’s obsession with characteristics such as aesthetics, performance, and strength can harm long-term health.

This doesn't mean you have to stop doing the fitness activities you enjoy to be healthy, but it's a calling to find balance. What do you do for your self-care, mobility, and rest, leads to true, lasting well-being.

Athletes may be the best example for peak performance, but approaching that peak comes at a cost to their heath. For most professional athletes, the plan is to perform as intensely as possible until their bodies cannot hold up enough to compete with the best. Along the way, they ideally become successful enough that they can retire, but they are not prioritizing health longevity... Certainly not over performance. Given this case, if we are trying to be healthy and happy, is copying what athletes do for training the best way to go about this? I don't think so.

Are you trying to sabotage your health with your training approach, or build the most resilient, healthful body that will last a lifetime? Let’s break down the myths and get real about what should reflect true human fitness. Check it out!

Challenge some of the beliefs we hold about fitness, especially the ones that might be systemically pushing us in unhealthy directions.

Check out my new article breaking down 4 ukemi drills to build your breakfall: https://wix.to/RuAd3edIf you're intereste...
09/07/2024

Check out my new article breaking down 4 ukemi drills to build your breakfall: https://wix.to/RuAd3ed

If you're interested, but still on the fence about my online course, this article will give you a good sense of what to expect, and includes a 20 minute follow-along tutorial session on YouTube. Enjoy!

Follow along with this video, demonstrating these 4 Ukemi drills for building your breakfall in a warm up or workout format!

Check out this complete program overview of my new Ukemi Foundations online course. Text can only explain so much, so I ...
08/26/2024

Check out this complete program overview of my new Ukemi Foundations online course. Text can only explain so much, so I put a lot of time and energy into planning, filming, capturing screen-shares and other clips from my course to best paint a picture of what it entails.

Ukemi is more than just falling and rolling, the journey to unlocking those skills involves expanding your range of motion, building strength and stability, exploring your balance and proprioception, and of course, taking your Natural Mobility to the next level.

Enough reading though, take a look at the video to get a better idea of what I'm talking about and how it can help you grow and flourish!

Experience a wholistic mobility program that combines safe-falling techniques, strength building, & enhanced mobility...Visit 🔗 https://www.naturalmobility....

Join me and other participants as we work through the new Ukemi Foundations Course over an 8-week period.This course is ...
08/19/2024

Join me and other participants as we work through the new Ukemi Foundations Course over an 8-week period.

This course is focused on teaching the skills of forward, back and side breakfalls, as well as forward, back, and side rolls in a progression that takes you through these techniques from a lying down position, sitting & crawling, kneeling & squatting, and finally from a standing position through the duration of the course.

Unlocking these skills can be challenging to your mobility, strength, and balance, and so the course includes modules that help build these attributes in their relation to the demand of the techniques being learned.

The result is that through learning the breakfall and rolling techniques, you'll explore other exercises in the accompanying modules that help you unlock your range of motion, build strength and stability in your lower body, upper body and core, and improve your balance and overall movement potential.

I designed this course by combining elements of the various training modalities I have explored over the past few decades, including martial arts, natural movement training, mobility development methods, and self-healing approaches.

I believe that the content of this course should be at the foundation of every body's movement practice, no matter whether you enjoy a certain sport, a physical activity, and movement-based hobby, or just to build confidence and safety in your daily life.

This cohort is an opportunity to work through the course on your own time, but also together with the support of a group of people, and with access to myself personally for coaching and guidance along the way through weekly live Q&A sessions as well as presence in the group chat.

Check the blog article below for more info, promo code for $50 off the course, and registration link.

The Ukemi Foundations Course: an online program that focuses on Mobility Development & Injury Prevention through learning breakfalls and rolls, balancing skills, functional flexibility, & natural strengthening. 8-week cohort begins October 5th!

Ukemi is the practice of receiving the self, through learning to falling safely. It's more than just learning how to fal...
08/06/2024

Ukemi is the practice of receiving the self, through learning to falling safely. It's more than just learning how to fall. Through the process of learning this skillset, we uncover and recover from our inefficiencies and imbalances regarding where we tend to hold our tension, where our mobility is restricted, and the weak links in our range of motion where we lack strength and stability, all while cultivating our body awareness.

This practice is often associated with the practice of martial arts, but it is so much more broadly applicable to every facet of our life, including the way we grasp concepts and how we use our minds.

Read this article about the deeper philosophical underpinning of the practice of Ukemi, and how to learn without adopting a martial arts practice:

Ukemi transforms our relationship with gravity; our relationship with the earth. It is a loving teacher that guides us to better understand our body mechanics, and reveals our weaknesses and limitations to us. When we explore the techniques of rolling and falling, we grow to understand where our res...

07/21/2024

What's the difference between mobility and flexibility? Flexibility is a component of mobility, but mobility development goes deeper, as we are not only increasing our pliability, but also developing strength and stability in those newly uncovered ranges of motion.

In this article, I get into the details of how to better understand mobility as the harmonization of flexibility and strength, and why that is so important in the context of injury prevention.

Join in this Sunday for our June Nature Saunter
06/17/2024

Join in this Sunday for our June Nature Saunter

Join in this Sunday @ 11am!

May Movement Meet-Up: Sunday, May 26th, 2024
05/06/2024

May Movement Meet-Up: Sunday, May 26th, 2024

Sunday, May 26th @ 11am!

04/25/2024

In this clip, I demonstrate the forward breakfall from a crawling position. This variation allows us to control our descent and focus fully on landing in the proper position. You can control the speed of your descent here, allowing you to lower yourself into your breakfall position slowly and focus on how you catch the ground.

This is a great drill, especially for those who are still intimidated by falling from standing, it can instill confidence in this forward breakfall pattern.

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Join us for a Guided Nature Walk this Sunday at 11am!
04/23/2024

Join us for a Guided Nature Walk this Sunday at 11am!

Sunday, April 28th @ 11am!

04/23/2024

In the last clip, we introduced the Lying Side Roll, and now we are going to use that pattern to practice our breakfall positions.

We'll start in a Back Breakfall position, transition to a Side Breakfall position, and then continue the motion into a Forward Breakfall position.

Breakfalls are used to land when we fall, but we can use this grounded lying transition as a drill to practice our breakfall position without having to fall. That's especially helpful when you're in your beginner or intermediate level.

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04/20/2024

Learn how to improve your flexibility and body alignment with this Lying Side Roll exercise. This is a great one to add to your warm ups when you're going to do some work on the ground.

There is some application in this movement pattern that relates to Ukemi which I'll get into in some future videos.

This is a great drill for a number of reasons, and you could read more of me writing about it, or you can just try it and feel how good it feels, and how good it makes you feel after you do it!

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