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Walking with Glenn Berkenkamp: 35 Wellness Walks to Expand Awareness, Increase Vitality, and Reduce Stress
Discover the joys of mindful walking to find balance, build awareness, and engage body and mind
Walking with 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, Berkenkamp shows us how to become reflective and inwardly directed, even as we take in the world around us. With 35 different walks and 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 any fitness level and walking ability, including fun walks for children. As we walk with Glenn, we walk to settle, clarify, and balance our bodies, minds, and spirits—opening to new perspectives and possibilities we didn't know were there.
Walking with 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, Berkenkamp shows us how to become reflective and inwardly directed, even as we take in the world around us. With 35 different walks and 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 any fitness level and walking ability, including fun walks for children. As we walk with Glenn, we walk to settle, clarify, and balance our bodies, minds, and spirits—opening to new perspectives and possibilities we didn't know were there.
248 pages, Paperback
Published August 18, 2020
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Glenn Berkenkamp
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Bio: Glenn Berkenkamp has explored and shared ultimate wellness and inspired living through the mind-body-spirit connection for a quarter-century. His talks, workshops, and writings elevate our daily experience, unite us in something greater, and bring us to a larger awareness of who we are. From this space, the impossible becomes possible; the ordinary, beautiful; and the miraculous, our home. A former bodybuilder and fitness expert, Glenn is a storyteller, screenwriter, transformational speaker, pioneer walker, and creator of the Writing Into The Now workshop. He is the author of Mastery: Living The Highest You, Would My Heart Think This Thought?, and Walking with Glenn Berkenkamp: 35 Wellness Walks to Expand Awareness, Increase Vitality, and Reduce Stress. He resides in Northern California.
Bio: Glenn Berkenkamp has explored and shared ultimate wellness and inspired living through the mind-body-spirit connection for a quarter-century. His talks, workshops, and writings elevate our daily experience, unite us in something greater, and bring us to a larger awareness of who we are. From this space, the impossible becomes possible; the ordinary, beautiful; and the miraculous, our home. A former bodybuilder and fitness expert, Glenn is a storyteller, screenwriter, transformational speaker, pioneer walker, and creator of the Writing Into The Now workshop. He is the author of Mastery: Living The Highest You, Would My Heart Think This Thought?, and Walking with Glenn Berkenkamp: 35 Wellness Walks to Expand Awareness, Increase Vitality, and Reduce Stress. He resides in Northern California.
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November 22, 2020
Learning to walk consciously (USA)
During 2020 many of us have taken to walking to relieve the stress of the pandemic and to ensure that exercise has a part in our lives, when our usual ways of keeping ourselves fit have gone by the way. It has also become a way to find relaxation, a way to switch off and engage with the present, when the world is in such turmoil.
In many ways, perhaps, this is an unusual book for us to review at TripFiction. But we felt that because when we visit cities in real life, we spend a lot of time walking and looking and walking and exploring, which is all part of the travel experience. Thus, practising healthy “Wellness” walking, which is what Berkenkamp advocates, is key to many of the experiences of travel.
This is a book, in essence, of learning to walk and becoming conscious of the process. It is, in other words, an exercise in mindfulness.
Glenn offers a variety of 35 guided walks. Several actually look at the ergonomic motion and propulsion of how we get about, from the motion of the feet “Heel to Toe and Toe to Heel Balance Walks”, addressing balance (something that we often consciously need to work on) to the spiritual side – “Full Moon Walk”. He suggests, for example, in “Making the World (or at least your Neighbourhood) a Cleaner Place to Walk” that you might choose to do this litter pick with an attitude of gratitude and loving service rather than anger.
In essence he covers all the kinds of walks you could imagine and exhorts you to be present as you do them. Not all will appeal to the reader but I think there are sufficient walks with which to connect and enjoy. And perhaps find a different, more centred – and contented – way of being.
During 2020 many of us have taken to walking to relieve the stress of the pandemic and to ensure that exercise has a part in our lives, when our usual ways of keeping ourselves fit have gone by the way. It has also become a way to find relaxation, a way to switch off and engage with the present, when the world is in such turmoil.
In many ways, perhaps, this is an unusual book for us to review at TripFiction. But we felt that because when we visit cities in real life, we spend a lot of time walking and looking and walking and exploring, which is all part of the travel experience. Thus, practising healthy “Wellness” walking, which is what Berkenkamp advocates, is key to many of the experiences of travel.
This is a book, in essence, of learning to walk and becoming conscious of the process. It is, in other words, an exercise in mindfulness.
Glenn offers a variety of 35 guided walks. Several actually look at the ergonomic motion and propulsion of how we get about, from the motion of the feet “Heel to Toe and Toe to Heel Balance Walks”, addressing balance (something that we often consciously need to work on) to the spiritual side – “Full Moon Walk”. He suggests, for example, in “Making the World (or at least your Neighbourhood) a Cleaner Place to Walk” that you might choose to do this litter pick with an attitude of gratitude and loving service rather than anger.
In essence he covers all the kinds of walks you could imagine and exhorts you to be present as you do them. Not all will appeal to the reader but I think there are sufficient walks with which to connect and enjoy. And perhaps find a different, more centred – and contented – way of being.
June 15, 2021
Fellow walker Glenn Berkenkamp highlights very well in this book the psychological and physical benefits of mindful walking. You can expand your walking experience with certain types of walks and mental prompts.
Mindful walking is taking meditation from the mat and into the world by engaging with our surroundings in a very “tactile way.”
Slowing down while walking, finding that inner rhythm, looking inward, and connecting with the natural surroundings is so much about activating the senses where the daily treadmill so often turns life into a “blur”.
Berkenkamp does caution that for some people this can be an uncomfortable process as so much of “what is underneath is now brought to the surface.” It is the experience many a pilgrim walker makes “walking off” the things that burden body and mind.
I highly recommend this book, especially for people looking for ways of reconnecting with nature and their immediate surroundings. You don’t have to take a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Camino in Spain for a fundamental walking experience. Sometimes there are places of beauty that can be found in the nearby surroundings. The author lists several of his favorite walks such as the volcanic mountain, Mt. Shasta in northern California, and walking among the giant Redwood trees in Muir Woods.
I also particularly like the chapters explaining to readers why and how they should walk, the affirmations you can use while walking, and different types of walking such as the “gratitude walk”, “listening”, and “seeing” walks.
Mindful walking is taking meditation from the mat and into the world by engaging with our surroundings in a very “tactile way.”
Slowing down while walking, finding that inner rhythm, looking inward, and connecting with the natural surroundings is so much about activating the senses where the daily treadmill so often turns life into a “blur”.
Berkenkamp does caution that for some people this can be an uncomfortable process as so much of “what is underneath is now brought to the surface.” It is the experience many a pilgrim walker makes “walking off” the things that burden body and mind.
I highly recommend this book, especially for people looking for ways of reconnecting with nature and their immediate surroundings. You don’t have to take a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Camino in Spain for a fundamental walking experience. Sometimes there are places of beauty that can be found in the nearby surroundings. The author lists several of his favorite walks such as the volcanic mountain, Mt. Shasta in northern California, and walking among the giant Redwood trees in Muir Woods.
I also particularly like the chapters explaining to readers why and how they should walk, the affirmations you can use while walking, and different types of walking such as the “gratitude walk”, “listening”, and “seeing” walks.
July 2, 2021
This book is so beautifully, lovingly and carefully written, you feel like the author is right there with you walking and contemplating your thoughts and interactions with your immediate environment. He helps you see things with an expanded and more deliberate perspective that ultimately benefits both your inner and outer world. He takes every possible element into consideration (even the cosmos) any limitations (physical, geographical, etc.) you may have and makes everything ok, he makes inner peace more accessible and easy than you may have thought previously. He makes the reader appreciate their surroundings. There is something for everyone in this book, even for kids, and I am so happy to have it.
March 8, 2021
A modern-day Muir (and yet a pioneer in his own right), Glenn takes you on a journey to return to yourself through ambulation of body, mind, and spirit, reminding us how our bipedalism keeps us present and connects us to the natural world.
June 5, 2025
Good ideas for ways to walk while being more intentional with your walks, not just walking for exercise. Lots of really great quotes in this book as well!
July 8, 2021
Stories connect us, lift us up, release and empower. Glenn Berkenkamp's book sets the table for walking as storytelling, inviting us to tap in and turn on to what's going on within. To stay present. To see what happens without having to "do" anything. To play. This simple everyday act - one foot before the other - is transformed by the practices Glenn offers and is an antidote for our uncertain times. Told with grace, flowing with kindness you feel as if you are indeed walking with this master. And in turn, discovering the master in yourself.
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