
Transform your running with the ten-step ChiRunning training program. Make it a Mindful Practice: Maintain high performance and make running a mindful, enjoyable life-long practice. Add relaxation to your running: Learn to focus your mind and relax your body to increase speed and distance. Engage your core: Shift the workload from your leg muscles to your core muscles, for efficiency and speed. Get aligned: Develop great posture and reduce your potential for injury while running, and make knee pain and shin splints a thing of the past. ChiRunning employs the deep power reserves in the core muscles, an approach found in disciplines such as yoga, Pilates, and T’ai Chi.ĬhiRunning enables you to develop a personalized exercise program by blending running with the powerful mind-body principles of T’ai Chi:

In ChiRunning, Danny and Katherine Dreyer, well-known walking and running coaches, provide powerful insight that transforms running from a high-injury sport to a body-friendly, injury-free fitness phenomenon. marathons.ĬhiRunning is now published in 12 languages and taught in 23 countries by over 200 certified instructors.The revised edition of the bestselling ChiRunning, a groundbreaking program from ultra-marathoner and nationally-known coach Danny Dreyer, that teaches you how to run faster and farther with less effort, and to prevent and heal injuries for runners of any age or fitness level. He has also been a featured speaker at most of the major U.S. He has helped countless runners from beginners to elites set new PR’s in both time and distance… without getting injured in the process. His work is based on his 20-year study of T’ai Chi and his 45 years of running and racing every distance from a 5K to 100 miles, including 43 ultra marathons (with podium finishes in his age group in all but three). Together they have co-authored three seminal books on mindful movement: ChiRunning, ChiWalking and ChiMarathon, all published by Simon & Schuster.ĭanny is also a lecturer and a leader in promoting injury prevention and higher performance through improving one’s running or walking technique. Danny and his wife Katherine have been pioneers in teaching runners and walkers how to turn their fitness regimen into a mindful practice.

Danny Dreyer is the founder of ChiRunning and ChiWalking which are based on the inner principles of T’ai Chi.
