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Most adults arrive at a private session carrying the quiet residue of modern life. Years of sitting in front of screens, frequent travel, intense bursts of weekend sport, and the gradual stiffness that arrives almost without notice in the late thirties and forties. The body still works — but it has stopped moving the way it once did. Squatting feels heavier. Reaching overhead pulls a little. Getting up from a low couch involves a strategy.
This is the territory of mobility training.
Mobility is often confused with flexibility, but the two are not the same. Flexibility is the passive range of a joint — how far it can be moved by an outside force, such as a stretch. Mobility is the active range — how far the body can move a joint under its own control, with strength and coordination throughout the whole arc.
A flexible body can be stretched into many shapes. A mobile body can move into and out of those shapes by itself, with stability. The first is useful. The second is what the body actually uses every day.
Mobility training works on this active range directly. Sessions combine controlled articular movements, joint-specific exercises borrowed from yoga, calisthenics and physical preparation, and slow, precise sequences that ask each joint to move through its full available range with awareness. The work is unspectacular to watch, but the change is felt almost immediately.
The case for mobility training becomes obvious once a few things are understood about the body.
First, joints lose range without specific use. The shoulder that is never lifted overhead during the week stiffens. The hip that only moves between desk chair and dining chair narrows its angles over time. Most adults are not losing mobility because of age — they are losing it because they have stopped asking their body for it.
Second, mobility is the foundation of every other form of movement. Running, swimming, sailing, padel, skiing, lifting, even sitting comfortably for long periods — all of these depend on joints that move freely under control. When mobility is missing, the body compensates, and the compensations eventually become injuries.
Third, mobility is one of the few qualities that has been clearly linked to longevity. The ability to squat, hinge, rotate and reach without restriction is what allows older adults to stay active, independent and free of pain. The work to keep these abilities is far smaller than the work to recover them once lost.
A regular mobility practice is, in this sense, an investment that compounds quietly over years.
A private mobility session begins with a brief assessment. The aim is not to grade the body but to understand where it moves well, where it has lost range, and where attention will yield the most benefit. This assessment is informal — a few movements, a few questions about how the body has been used recently, what is comfortable and what is not.
From there, the session unfolds at a deliberate pace. The work is precise rather than intense. Specific joints are guided through controlled ranges, the body learns to access positions it had stopped visiting, and over the course of an hour the difference is usually noticeable. Hips that felt locked at the start move more freely. Shoulders find more space. The lower back unlocks.
Sessions integrate elements from several traditions — the slow articulation work of yoga, the joint preparation principles of calisthenics, and the structured progression of physical training. None of these is followed dogmatically. Each session is built around what the person needs that day, in the setting they choose.
Mobility training suits adults who feel that their body has tightened over time and want to address it directly. It serves travellers whose bodies have absorbed long flights and busy itineraries. It supports professionals whose desk work has shaped their posture. It complements active lifestyles — sailing, golf, padel, skiing, weight training — by maintaining the joint quality that those activities require.
It is particularly valuable for people in their forties, fifties and beyond who notice that the body no longer recovers the way it once did, and who understand that maintaining mobility is one of the most important things they can do for the next decades of their life.
The practice does not require flexibility, fitness or experience. It only requires willingness to move slowly and pay attention.
Mobility training is one of the least dramatic forms of practice available, and one of the most consequential. Unlike a workout that leaves the body tired, a good mobility session leaves it longer, looser and noticeably more capable. That sensation is not a feeling — it is the body genuinely accessing more of its own range, often for the first time in years.
For clients in Saint-Tropez and along the French Riviera, private mobility sessions can be arranged at a villa, a hotel terrace, or any suitable private space. Sessions are typically 60 minutes, take place in the morning or early evening, and are tailored to the body in front of me — its history, its restrictions, and where it would benefit most.
If you would like to arrange a private mobility session, the simplest way is to send a message on WhatsApp.
