Walking is not a concept. People were built for walking, it’s a natural movement for us.
Walking lowers your blood pressure and stimulates metabolism.
Vitamine D and movement boost your immune system.
It adds strength to your muscles and improves bone density.
Breathing more deeply and breathing clean air feeds the organs and cells in your body and helps it get rid of toxins.
The production of the stress hormone cortisol decreases.
The quality of your sleep increases.

Walking outside in nature, gives you a mental boost. Because cortisol levels are lowered, you will feel less anxiety and less feelings of depression. Your mind will feel more clear.
Studies have shown that when you walk, you become 60% more creative. Cognitive flexibility means that you are better able to generate creative, out-of-the-box ideas, which are still relevant. This boost in creativity is most likely because walking stimulates both sides of your brain.
Walking outside in nature, has a positive effect on our sleep.
Walking helps you cultivate body awareness; proprioception. This helps you feel what is happening in your body, and recognise stress signals. Based on these sensations, you can start making other choices, instead of “soldiering on”.
Slowing down and wandering in nature helps with better body awareness and gets us out of the stress system we are in.

Green landscapes boost serotonin levels, a neurotransmitter that has a calming effect on your mood and emotions.
Emotions influence your posture, and vice versa. You embody your emotions. Studies show that positive words and thoughts stimulate movement ‘forward’ and negative words and thoughts stimulate movement ‘backward’. When walking, you are making a continuous movement forward. Your brain connects this movement to positivity.
When we feel very stressed, we have the tendency to pull everything into that stress system. We don’t seem to be able to ‘turn off’. Everything becomes about achievement or getting back to our “old self” as soon as possible. We start exercising, not once a week, but 4 times a week. We walk, not for our enjoyment, but because we need to reach our 10,000 steps goal at breakneck speed. Sauntering and wandering, without purpose, will help us to get out of that stress system.
When you walk together with someone, the synchronised movement (walking in the same rhythm, making the same movements, side by side) strengthens the connection between you. Studies have shown that moving in sync makes you feel more aligned and increases generosity, trust and tolerance toward others.