Mind your step

It’s one of the first things we learn to do, and it literally carries us through life. The benefits of walking have become apparent to many of us over the past year, with 63 per cent of people saying that a daily stroll helps them manage their mental health.* Author Libby Delana can certainly extol the virtues – in 2011, the Californian stepped outside for a walk… She did the same the following day, and the following. It became a daily ritual that resulted in her walking more than 25,000 miles – the equivalent of the circumference of the earth.

In her book Do Walk: Navigate Earth, Mind and Body. Step by Step, Delana celebrates this simple pleasure, sharing her journey, as well as exercises and mantras we can all apply to our daily walks.

“All walking is discovery. On foot, we take the time to see things whole” Hal Borland