Hello and welcome to the Get Your Glow Back podcast, a wellness podcast to help you get your glow back.

This is episode 32 with Simon Stratton.

Simon is a movement expert and the founder of Local Motion Studio in London.

He is a husband and father and passionate about raising his children with strong

sense of community values and a holistic approach to health. In this episode, we spoke all about

the importance of movement, and natural movement, not movement in the gym. What we can learn from

our children, why barefoot is best, and how to find your passion and make it your business.

Let's bring on the wonderful Simon.

Welcome Simon to the podcast.

Thank you for having me.

Now, I've met you maybe two, three years ago, longer, four years ago.

Yeah, I think so at the beginning.

At the very beginning of Local Motion, which is Simon's amazing gym in London.

And it's more than a gym.

It's a tribe of people working out together.

And the thing that really excites me is that everyone is very friendly and everyone works out barefoot.

And it's very different to what people perceive as exercise. And you describe yourself as a movement coach, not say a personal

trainer. So I'd be really interested to know what a movement coach is and what your movement

philosophy is. Sure. I think when I decided to transition to the title of

movement coach, it was after I had personally shifted my training philosophy away from

working out in kind of global gym setting, doing very kind of linear movements, sort of squats and

deadlifts and bench press and all this

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