Gill Stewart has been the director of Nordic Walking UK (now WALX) since 2008. She is a qualified sports therapist, exercise referral specialist and aromatherapist and is passionate about the importance of physical activity and how to make it something we want to do. Her expert opinion and work has been featured across the media in The Times, Good Housekeeping, BBC Breakfast, The Telegraph and more. The Complete Guide to Nordic Walking is also published by Bloomsbury.
A thoughtful and inspiring homage to the simple but powerful act of walking. Gill shares her wisdom on how we can use walking to reconnect with our mind and our body. * Nikita Desai, author of A Beginner's Guide to the Roots of Yoga * A thorough, comprehensive manual for walking … I can recommend this compendium to anyone who wants to improve their fitness, or simply get outside and walk, and discover how much nature has to offer us for health and well-being. * Stefan Batorijs, author of Wild Life: Shinrin-Yoku and The Practice of Healing with Nature. *