The Free Clinic gets you started! Certified ChiRunning Instructor, Pat Reichenbach, will demonstrate the ChiRunning technique, explain the benefits, answer questions and teach everyone the foundation skills for healthy running. Prepare to be outdoors, however there will not be a lot of running involved during the session.

Remember how you ran with ease as a child? Remember the joy you felt in running? That’s ChiRunning! ChiRunning teaches the natural, biomechanically correct running form that you instinctively used as a child.

ChiRunning teaches you how to move from your core, relax your peripheral muscles and co-operate with gravity instead of pushing, pounding and heel-striking your way down the road. Danny Dreyer, the founder of ChiRunning says “It’s not running that hurts you, it’s the way you run that hurts you.” Plantar faciitis, shin splints, runner’s knee, IT band issues, hamstrings pulls, Piriformis syndrome and lower back issues are all typical running injuries that can be reduced or eliminated by changing the way we run. The idea is to enjoy running for your entire life.

ChiRunning reduces injury, improves efficiency and is appropriate for everyone. For experienced runners, ChiRunning increases performance and reduces race times. Beginning runners are empowered with a sense of their strength and potential.