Going into the workshop, I had relatively little idea of what to expect. All I knew was that the cover art for the workshop was unlike anything I’d ever come across in fitness before: on the course’s intro page alone, you see three people running barefoot through a forest surrounded by flames. Consider me intrigued.

Once you’ve purchased the workshop (it’s £30 for lifetime access), you’re taken to a page consisting of 12 video chapters, an intro and an outro. The website is slightly clunky – the videos don’t jump to the next one automatically, so you have to get up and click on the next video every time one ends unless you want them to repeat over and over again – but for the most part, it’s pretty straightforward.

In the introduction video, the instructor suggests grabbing a yoga block, but you can use any square-shaped object you have lying around. All that’s left to do after that is get changed, find an open space and get started.

The first three videos are all about waking up the feet, hands and torso using a variety of slow, easy mobility exercises to focus on the different muscles at play in these areas. For example, the feet video requires you to twist your feet from heel to toe, moving the leg from side to side as you do so. At this point, I was genuinely surprised how many cracking sounds my body made – although I’m sure many of the areas I was moving don’t tend to stretch and bend a lot regularly. It felt nice to spend some time manipulating these areas and playing with their natural range of movement, and it set me up brilliantly for the next stage in the workshop.

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