Capabilities
An 8-week guided course to build balance, in-between strength and confidence in your everyday movement
You’ve started to think about movement more as you age. Perhaps you’ve started strength training and you want to explore new capabilities, move in ways you haven’t for years, build your confidence, and do all of this in a way that works for you.
The Capabilites for Life Course gives you the knowledge, skills, and support to get there, in a way that feels approachable, playful, adaptable, and sustainable.
This isn’t about perfect technique, but building more options when things don’t go to plan.
Weekly live coaching + Q&A, expert guests, and pre-recorded movement library.
“Just brilliant. THANK YOU Gill & Andrew! Suddenly it all feels possible.”
Maggie, 62. 2025 Strong for Life Student.
What is Capabilities for Life?
Capabilities for Life is an 8-week course designed to help you move with more confidence in the real world - not just in controlled settings.
Most movement programmes prepare you for controlled environments - but real life rarely looks like that - you step over things, carrying bags, react to your environment - and sometimes you lose your balance.
This course focuses on building confidence in the in-between movements by exploring balance, rolling, getting up and down, so you’re ready for the unexpected.
Let’s build resilience, so that when you next stumble, you’ll know what to do.
Why we made this course
This is the course we’ve been wanting to create for years, it combines everything we’ve learnt through creating WildStrong and Nature Moves. It’s playful and creative but also gives structured ideas for progressing over time.
For many of us, there’s a gap between being strong and feeling capable in real life. Where Strong for Life worked to build up fundamental strength through progressive strength and impact - Capabilities for Life fills in all the gaps.
What you’ll learn
The difference between structured practice and exploratory movement.
How to build and challenge your balance in different environments
How to get and up and down creatively and with ease
How to roll with confidence in ways that work for you and your setting
How to respond when things go wrong
The difference between structured practice and exploratory movement
Ideas for how to build in play and creativity as we well as ideas for how to formally progress.
What our students say
Say goodbye to…
✘ Feeling cautious or hesitant when moving
✘ Sticking only to controlled exercises
✘ Feeling like you’re doing it “wrong”
✘ Wondering what would happen if you lost your balance
Say hello to…
✔ Feeling more confident in unpredictable situations
✔ Having multiple ways to move, recover, and adapt
✔ A supportive, playful environment where you can explore and learn
10% Off + Free Round Two
As part of our very first cohort, you’ll get 10% off, plus a unique bonus: you’ll be invited to take the course again for free. As we learn and improve it, you’ll get to experience the upgraded version too.
Live Course
£380
10% off £342
Weekly live Zoom sessions
(All sessions recorded – watch anytime)
✔ Weekly live Zoom sessions (recorded)
✔ Guided movement sessions (structured + exploratory)
✔ Access to all course materials
✔ Supportive community space
✔ Ongoing access after the 8 weeks
Next cohort begins:
June 2nd, 2026
Live Course - with extra support
£620
10% off £558
If you like the sound of the course but you feel you could benefit from tailored support.
Everything in the Live Course plus:
✔ 1:1 call at the beginning
✔ 2 small group calls where we work together on specific movement problems.
✔ Personal guidance based on your movement history
Next LIVE cohort begins:
June 2nd, 2026
Frequently Asked Questions
Read the FAQs, if you have any concerns before booking, please do send us an email. We’d love to hear from you.
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We created this course because strength alone isn’t the full picture. You also need confidence, adaptability, and experience in less controlled situations. That’s what we’re building here.
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No, but we do touch on rolling and fall resilience. We’re not trying to eliminate risk entirely, we’re helping you become more capable when things don’t go to plan.
You’ll have follow-along videos, clear written guidance, and ongoing support (weekly live Q&As and the online forum) so you always know what to do next.
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Yes - as this is our first cohort we ask that you:
Can confidently get up and down from the ground unaided.
Have some recent exercise history
This first round is not suitable for anyone with osteoporosis or pre-existing conditions unless we’ve worked with you already or we’ve talked to your physio or GP.
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For this first round, no — unless we’ve worked with you directly.
We’ll expand this in future versions. -
We get it, it’s easy to start strong and then lose momentum. That’s why this course is built around connection and accountability.
You’ll join a live call every week (including guest sessions), get access to a private student forum, and have ongoing support between sessions.
This isn’t a “buy it and disappear” programme, we’ll be learning, training, and checking in together every week.