The Natural Life-stylist

08/03/2025

To these three superstars and all of you SiStars around the world. YOU ARE AMAZING!!

Thank you for your love, strength, vulnerability, wisdom, compassion, empathy, intuition, patience and healing powers of heart centeredness.

When you step into your super powers, you women are strong like phenomenon and I for one have matured into a better man through learning what it is to be present in your presence.

You are loved.

I am grateful.

25/02/2025

As humans alive today, ‘wellness’ has become one of our central preoccupations.

In search of an answer for our individual and societal ills we look to the self-styled experts and gurus of Instagram and TV - we follow the tide of the Tik Tok trend.

Instead of arriving at a place of health and happiness, we’re suffering with more sickness, more obesity, more anxiety and more sadness…

Meanwhile the global wellness industry is booming, with a growing mega-worth of over 1.2 trillion dollars.

We believe we’re buying into solutions to our suffering, so why are we seeing overall health data that conflicts with this?

• Obesity has nearly tripled worldwide since 1975 and now kills more people than hunger

• Su***de remains the most common cause of death among men under 50 in the UK

• 280 million people of all ages suffer from depression, globally

• 40% of disability worldwide is now attributed to depression and anxiety

There’s a gaping chasm between our understanding of - and desire for - wellness, and our ability to actually achieve total, maintainable health of our bodies, minds and spirits.

At NATLIFECOACH we believe we can choose to reset and reconnect to our natural needs, to learn how to nourish our extraordinary human potential.

YOU could be a fundamental part of that shift, from the ground up - quite literally.

Together, we can close the gap between wellness as an industry and wellness as a way of being.

This approachable coaching practice will equip you with the skills to help others reconnect to their inner wild nature.

You will guide them in using those discoveries as a basis for determining what they really need for their own wellbeing day to day - whatever and wherever their environment

You will learn to develop a ‘coach’s eye’, recognising what might be hindering your clients - holding them back from being truly healthy and happy

You will work with them to signpost the thinking and behaviours that have to be let go of in order to find the physical, social and spiritual tools they need to thrive

As part of the NATLIFECOACH experience, you will learn how to create a business, career and life that you love, aligned with the natural lifestyle philosophy. Being part of a movement that creates and supports greater health and wellbeing for future generations and our planet is a noble quest, but one with many challenges. You will need to come to this work with commitment and a willingness to live these practices daily.

To see the change, we need to be the change.

Can you commit to the call to help us collectively make the shift from wellness as an industry to wellness as a way of being?

If it’s a big fat ‘yes!’, then through the NATLIFECOACH 4 day intensive process we’ll show you how to enable others to discover a way of life that, once experienced, they’ll never turn away from and will never have to re-​learn.

In search of an answer for our individual and societal ills we look to the self-styled experts and gurus of Instagram and TV - we follow the tide of the Tik Tok trend.

30/01/2025

Squat and grind!

I squat and I grind. It’s a simple opportunistic mobility act. I grind with my left hand and I grind with my right hand whilst squatting.

Using both my left and right hands to grind my coffee stimulates both left and right hemispheres of my brain.

And the flat footed resting squat is just such a great mobility practice to gain for good foot, ankle, knee and hip function and for ticking those all important longevity boxes.

Also if you’re in the ‘I need a coffee to go for a p**p’ camp, then the squat and grind is the ultimate p**p primer too.

And if you want to avoid constipation, painful haemorrhoids, colon disease & instead improve your digestion, colon health and pelvic floor function; then I advise getting your inconvenient squat on, on the loo too.

We can’t all p**p in nature, but that doesn’t mean we can’t p**p naturally.

How’s your squat?

19/01/2025

Running Hot & Cold….

My ‘why’ message at the closing of yesterday’s ‘Running Hot & Cold’ retreat….

It’s a huge privilege to be able to walk, so let’s walk for those that can’t.

It’s a huge privilege to be able to run, so let’s run for those that can’t.

It’s a huge privilege to be alive so let’s hand on heart agree to honour those that didn’t wake up today by living this one wild and precious life with everything we got.

Do you know what else is a huge privilege?

That I get to help others to feel what a huge privilege it is to be able to run again.

Core message:

If you lose touch of your innate efficiency, and have poor foot function and poor running mechanics, then you’ll no doubt be suffering from overuse and disuse niggles, stiffness and pain. And over time, the niggles, the stiffness, the pain, the inefficiencies will hinder your progress and if not addressed at the cause level - will unfortunately contribute to the chronic injury stats that are associated with running.

I also unpacked how it can often be NOT the running, but instead how our everyday lifestyle habits outside of running are actually contributing to those running symptoms and how therefore making simple, yet affective shifts in our habits within our everyday habitats can get right to the cause.

If you’re having to recovery from your lifestyle, then you are not going to be the performance being that you know resides inside of you. And how the way we are choosing to live can be the very.

What Was Covered:
Running Video Analysis
Mobility and Movement
Foot to Hip Health
Prehab + Rehab
Running Efficiency Techniques
Nasal Breathing for Performance
Coastal Path Run
Hot & Cold Contrast Therapy
Closing Sauna Ceremony

All in all it was a mega day with many eureka moments, human connection and community.

Big shout out to all that came with such empty cups, open ears, big smiles and willingness to learn. Here’s to now embodying this practice.

Thank you for the closing Sauna Ritual. That was mega and a really nourishing end to the experience.

Thank you .salamvmt for the space for this magic to land.

07/01/2025

Happy Chooseday.

Thoughts from outside the flats.

Someone chose to build these tower blocks. They chose to build solid foundations. They chose to build a solid structure.

You can choose to be the person you want to be, or you can choose to continue being the person you don’t want to be.

You can choose to live the life you want to live, or you can choose to continue living the life you don’t want to live.

You can choose to start living your truth, or you can choose to keep living a lie.

You can also choose to take on the responsibility to change, or you can choose to blame others for you not taking on the responsibility to change.

Your choice.

You choose.

Happy

14/11/2024

Red Pill or Blue Pill.

5 hours of sitting and compromising my physiology or 5 hours of squatting, hanging and surfing to equip me with real-world capabilities, coping mechanisms, and resilience for the ever-changing experience we call life.

For over 14 years now I have been squatting, surfing and hanging on over rail and underground trains.

For over 14 years these words “it’s none of my business what other people think of me” have served me just as well as my locomotion is lotion train ride shenanigans.

Public Hanging, Squatting and Surfing even made it into my book ‘Be More Human’.

Here’s the excerpt:

You can change your perceptions of your surroundings and begin to think like a rewilder: ‘Ah, there’s a bar above my head, I’m going to grab that and hang with my weight!’, ‘Let’s see if I can rest in squat each time the train stops and hang as we travel from station to station!’ Choosing to raise some socially extreme eyebrows might make you feel vulnerable at first, but thwarting social rules that inhibit our natural movement and compromise our posture is the best way to elicit the change towards natural norms – and you may alter some perceptions and inspire a few people along the way!
• Instead of holding on to a rail for support, or sitting, stand on the Tube or train. Ground through your feet, stacking your head, chest and pelvis above your base of support (your feet) and surf, use your natural stabilisers.
• Once you’re done with your train surfing and Tube-stop squat, raise the intensity game with escalator runs, or by taking the stairs instead of the lift.

13/11/2024

Tis the season to get wintered!

Existing in a permanent state of room temperature is as unnatural as existing in a permanent state of making do.

If you haven’t experienced the therapeutic and thermogenic benefits of cold water yet, then I’d say this is a good time of year to be leaning right in, nestling your shoulder on that edge of discomfort and giving that edge a good old shunt.

28/10/2024

You are what you eat….

Change ‘eat’ to ‘consume’.

24/10/2024

Bow Rain Riddle

AKA The Legend That Is BowMan

5 today!

Such joy you bring

Such a light you are

A bright bright star

Our Sun

Son

Thank you for choosing me to be your Papa.

of joy my boy.

23/10/2024

Sobriety: 10 years since inhaling Bufo and quitting all my vices.

I’ve succumbed to the trickster mind convincing me to get f**ked up four times since then, so sadly in the rules of sobriety I can’t celebrate the win as ten years sober.

However what I can celebrate is how 10 years ago that whole Bufo process changed my life enormously and I’m counting that as a huge f**king win.

22/10/2024

Above all else, I learned it wasn’t enough to know it, I had to embody it—truly walk my talk, so then I could shine a light on the practices that have helped me navigate a pretty gnarly path, so that those who feel lost on their own path, or who lack the motivation, information or means to implement change, can actually find themselves and be that change.

11/10/2024

Redefining 50

Yep that’s the mission!

I’ve been there, I know it feels rubbish and I also know that we absolutely do not need to exist in a perpetual state of ‘making-do’.

You are one powerful human being and you have everything you need within you to be the change you seek, alter your current state of mind, find your purpose and the discipline it takes to reach your human potential.

Here’s to replacing the midlife malaise with midlife awakenings.

The Redefining 50 application is now open.

Join me and my NatLifeCoach guest facilitators for a transformative 12 month program filled with four exclusive 48-hour retreats, monthly one-on-one coaching calls and NatLife movement coaching programs that adapt every six weeks, progressively enhancing your strength, adaptability, capability and resilience.

8 of 10 places now available.

Let’s go

08/10/2024

Redefining 50

Yep that’s the mission.

At the age of 44, I became an endurance athlete, breaking records no-one thought possible for a supposedly ‘middle aged’ father of four.

Now Im in my 50th year - I feel the best I’ve ever felt and wonder what the “no one thought possible” narrative will be.

The main narrative I hear others express is how unfulfilled they are. How they’ve reached this “midlife”point and how they’ve let their life slip in the pursuit of being successful.

The sacrifices:

A while back a friend of mine (whose father has sacrificed more than just his own health in the pursuit of what he thought would ultimately bring him happiness) reached out and finally asked for help.

He woke up with the huge almighty “WTF have I been doing all this time” moment. His health had taken a back seat. He was out of shape, sleep deprived and waking up dis-regulated.

My friend voiced that the only difference money had made to his Dads situation, was that he had a private nurse and a better view from his bedroom window .

All of the above put a rocket up his butt. It prompted him to have a good honest look in the mirror to reassess what success truly means.

His eureka came with “no one’s getting out of this alive, so I want to truly start living”.

It’s often this “no one’s getting out alive” that derails so many. It’s as if it’s a green light to get f**ked up, when in reality it’s a green light to start authentically living our best lives.

Redefining 50

Like many others you might have come to the realisation that the way you are living isn’t enabling you to be your best self. There’s more to you and more to get out of the world you inhabit.

Many of us reach the pivotal point in midlife feeling unfulfilled realising that in our pursuit of success, that we’ve let our health and happiness slip away.

It’s time to break free from self-limiting behaviours and beliefs and embrace the challenges of change.

Are you ready to redefine what it means to thrive in your late 40’s, 50’s and beyond?

**Redefining 50** program is now open for just 10 participants starting this January!

Join me and my NatLifeCoach guest facilitators for a transformative 12 month program filled with four exclusive 48-hour retreats, monthly one-on-one coaching sessions and NatLife movement coaching programs that adapt every six weeks, progressively enhancing your strength, mobility, capability, adaptability, and resilience.

Spaces are limited to just 10.

Here’s to replacing the with

30/09/2024

WE did it.......!
WE finished the Lands End to John O’Grouts 900 miles in 30 days barefoot running challenge with an insane 57 miler.
So now what Mr T?
First there is gratitude to the universe for gifting me this extraordinary experience.
Then there’s you....
You are the universe and I have nothing but love, respect and gratitude in my heart for each and everyone of you for playing your part in supporting this crazy ride.
For now though it’s time for me to honour the process by stepping into a new power to become the rock that Katarina has been for me throughout this whole journey. I am in awe of this woman’s power, courage, beauty and grace and look forward to being left in an even more heightened state of pure worship for the divine; when in just a few weeks katarina will be bringing our son into the world.
Then maybe I’ll have a think about the next instalment😬.

TBT 5 year ago when my stubbornness prevailed.

📸 Credit and proper big up to someone that has been an absolute rock this last month; Mr James Joyce .ie. Thank you brother!.

15/09/2024

Extreme minimalism?

Not too sure about the title that was chosen for the article here, but happy with the edit of my contribution and get the socially normalised need for extreme labels for click bait.

Yes to Paleo Chic.

I also feel that it’s important to mention here that for a large percentage of the world - ground living and living without homes full to the brim with furniture, is socially normal, and not extreme.

29/03/2024

Tony Riddle, the barefoot running enthusiast & lifestyle guru, is doing it again! Three years after he ran the UK’s Three Peaks barefoot to raise funds for Survival’s campaigns, he is now running the London Marathon — all 26 miles — barefoot.

He set an amazing £5,000 fundraising target for this. Will you help? Link to his fundraiser: https://2024tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/tony-riddle.

Image © Chris Baker

The Natural Life-stylist

21/02/2024

Tony Riddle the ultra endurance athlete, best-selling author and Natural Lifestyle Coach, is to run the 2024 London Marathon barefoot in aid of Survival - to support the rights of Indigenous and tribal peoples including uncontacted tribes.

Tony previously galvanised the nation running the length of the UK barefoot in 2019, and then again in 2020 running barefoot 485 miles of the Three Peaks in aid of Survival.

Support Tony by donating to his fundraising page at https://2024tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/tony-riddle. All the funds will go towards Survival campaigns.

Image © Chris Baker

The Natural Life-stylist