Power Of Poles Session

In this 90mins session, you’ll learn the basics of Nordic walking and gain your Freedom Passport. You’ll gain the skills to get the most from your own walking as well as being able to join national Nordic Walking UK and WALX classes.

Locally, you’ll be able to book into any of our Harrow Striders walks straight away and enjoy effective, total body walking in beautiful surroundings.
Once you’ve completed the Power of Poles you will receive your NWUK FREEDOM Passport and be entitled to free Nordic Walking UK membership and to the members’ prices on the Nordic Walking UK store.

Power of Poles 2 Course

If you have completed a Power of Poles Intro course or a Learn to Nordic Walk course but have let things slide a bit, this session could be just what you are looking for.

Come along and refresh your Nordic walking technique in order to get the most out of your Nordic walking poles and be inspired to join in with regular walks.

Nordic Well Being Walks

A gentle safe way to walk yourself fitter! These walks include exercises that help with flexibility, balance and strength whilst using poles to improve general fitness and increase joint mobility.

Suitable for those who want to build up to the longer or more vigorous walks or may have concerns about their health.

Adventure Walks

These are intermediate walks, lasting one hour and will include some hill work. For those new to the area you’ll be surprised at the fantastic views over London that you get from Wood Farm Viewpoint, the hidden lakes in PearsWood and Bentley Priory and the seemigly endless trails through woods which change with the seasons.

We have walks in Stanmore on Mondays and Saturdays. On Wednesdays we walk in different parts of Harrow. One week we may be climbing the winding cobbled strrets on Harrow on the Hill, another week we may be in Ruislip Woods and the Lido, where visitors feel that they could get lost in the network of winding paths. Together these form lovely, varied routes through the interesting and green spaces in and around Harrow.

Nordic Yoga Walks

Nordic Yoga Walks incorporates gentle Hatha Yoga positions and breathing focus within an outdoor walk. This programme is designed to be delivered outdoors so there are no floor based exercises, and the positions can be done with or without poles.

Hatha Yoga originates from Raja Yoga. The sanskrit word ‘Ha’ means sun (and left) and ‘tha’ means moon (and right). Hatha Yoga evolved as a physical practice to balance your energy by performing difference postures (asanas) and controlling the breath. There are many benefits to this, with the key benefits relating to enhancing an individual’s focus and control. Eliminating external distractions, working towards comfort.

Walkabout Wednesday

2 to 4 hours monthly longer walks a little further afield Join us once a month for a longer walk which may take in parts of the London Loop or beautiful walks in the Chess Valley or walks from the met line stations such as the popular Amersham to Chesham Walk.

We take snacks and drinks but try to find a café for tea or lunch to make the most of a lovely day out.

CHALLENGES

We take part in a range of group challnges which includes raising over £2000 on a 10k Race for Life Walk in 2019 and the virtual challenges during lockdown included the Lands End to John O’Groats and Camino di Santiago Pilgrimage which kept us motivated and supporting each other with daily walks when we couldn’t walk as a group. Currently several members are challenging themselves with the Walk 1000 miles in 2021 and others training to take part in the Nordic 16 mile walk as part of the NWUK Purbeck Nordic Walking Festival in September 2021.