Our story
Movement Nordic Walking Academy USA teaches Nordic walking as a technique, not as a walk with sticks. Adrian Kasper has been teaching it since 2013, and has spent more than a decade training instructors and walkers across Europe.
We bring that experience to Central Florida. Alongside Nordic walking we run forest bathing sessions — Shinrin-Yoku, the Japanese practice of unhurried, attentive time among trees. We describe it as what it is: slow movement outdoors, breathing, and attention. It is not a treatment and we make no health claims for it.
What we teach is our own The 5 Movements Method — Posture · Rhythm · Push · Release · Breath. Five movements, in order. The order is the method.
There is a timing to it, and it is the first thing I correct in almost every new participant. That is also why it is taught in person, in small groups — it has to be watched and corrected, not read.
Whether you walk Florida’s coastal trails, a state park or your local greenspace, the aim is the same: better technique, and time outside you actually look forward to.
Contact: adrian@usamnwa.com · +1-407-470-6675
Adrian Kasper
President and Lead Trainer, Movement Nordic Walking Academy USA. Based in Winter Park, Central Florida.
- 2023 — President and Lead Trainer, Movement Nordic Walking Academy USA
- 2014 — Started the Slovak NW Tour and the WALKER/KA competitions
- 2014 — Qualified Spiral Stabilization® instructor
- 2013 — Teaching Nordic walking
- 2008 — Certified massage therapist
- 2005 — Certified ski instructor
- 1994 — Aikido professional
- More than a decade training instructors and walkers across Europe
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