Mr John Woodward

John Woodward is a long established Alexander Technique Teacher and coach of Natural Running. He runs a full time teaching centre in Bashful Alley Lancaster and runs courses from his purpose built centre: La’al Barn in the Lake District.

John trained initially in research psychology and went on to research into human movement at Nottingham University. For a period he played and taught classical guitar before training as an Alexander teacher in the early 1980s. Since the First Natural Running course in the late 1980s, he has been refining and developing the work of applying the principles of the Alexander Technique to running form.

He has walked and run barefoot for well over 30 years and lists among his barefoot feats:

• A barefoot walk around the Lake District
• A 60 mile run from Ulverston to Whitehaven barefoot in one day
• A barefoot ascent of Scafell (an ultimate barefoot challenge if ever there was one!)
• Ulverston to Lancaster barefoot across Morecambe Bay
• 80 miles barefoot in one day (on John’s 65th birthday)

John is completing his book “Crossing The Line” and is about to release a DVD entitled “The Natural Running Foot Competence Program”.