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Karlee Owens

@coach.karlee

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Natty mvmt advocate, coach & professional recesser. 🕶️
Come for pain-free performance, stay for the good vibes. Move naturally. Live fully. 👣🖤

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Welcome!! 🌊🌊🌊🌊

My name is Karlee, but you can call me CK! 😊

I am a movement coach, passionate human being, and believer that natural movement is one of the greatest tools for living a strong, vibrant, connected life. ♾️

Thank you to my friend @iwarwoolschot for bringing my story to life is in my new YouTube video. I share a little more about my journey - how movement coaching found me, why I believe in it so deeply, and what I hope to bring to this space.

➡️ https://youtu.be/i57gU8ohdXs

Even though I share my personal journey through navigating injury and chronic pain, the work we do as Primal Movement coaches is so much bigger than who we are individually. It’s not just exercise. It’s awareness. It’s longevity. It’s a lifelong conversation that honors who you are and where your’e going. 👣🖤

Thanks for being here. I’m so grateful and excited to continue moving and growing with you all! 🌿

🖤ck

#primal #primalmovement #journey #story #introduction #coaching #movement #painfree #painfreeliving #movementcoach #coach #welcome #youtube #motivationmonday #motivation by @coach.karlee

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a year ago

What is a Primal Movement Assessment? 👣

Did you know that with your phone or tablet you can film yourself in slo-motion video to assess your natural movement patterns like standing, squatting, hinging, walking and running? This slo motion assessment will provide you invaluable insights into your posture, mobility, alignment, and how your body moves.

A movement assessment gives us the opportunity to visualize subtle details in posture, alignment, and muscle engagement that are often missed in real-time. By slowing down the movement, you can identify imbalances, compensations, compression or inefficiencies in your movement.

This assessment helps us create a corrective movement program that allows us to train not just for performance but also for better movement efficiency. Higher movement efficiency or “technique” will reduce the risk of injury, increase performance, and enhance your overall body awareness. Slo-motion video serves as a powerful tool for refining natural movements, leading to pain-free, functional, and optimized movement.

You can do this anytime yourself or hire a coach today to guide you through the assessment process.

Start your journey today with a @primalmovementofficial coach, learn more at 👇🏽

www.primalmovement.org/assessment

#functionalmovement #primalmovement #assessment #painfree #posturecorrection #painrelief #athleticperformance by @coach.karlee

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2 years ago

Properly Toaztedddd on the one & only @ztreadz 🥵🔥🔥

Distance protocols are no joke!! You know it’s brutal when you start floating off to space 🫠🚀😅

20+ second hill runs
climb climb climb
then drop set to 15 second faster paced runs

Bonus strength & grit training 💪

Always a good time. Thank you for the work @ubrzati.official 🙏

#training #athletictraining #run #running #grit taken in Melbourne, Florida by @coach.karlee

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Predator Mode : ACTIVATED 🐆🔥🔥

Leopard print. Leopard speed.
It’s just science 😎

Runnin fast @ubrzati.official ⚡️

#primal #athlete #running #athlete #injuryprevention taken in Melbourne, Florida by @coach.karlee

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Of everything I do, this is one of the most life-changing practices. 💜💜

• Morning Movement Meditation •

My favorite kind is right here, on the beach at sunrise. Especially when God pops off on his artwork! 🌅🙏

In a world that never stops scrolling, stressing, compressing, I think we need this more than ever.

Taking time first thing in the morning offers and opportunity to tune all of that out and tune back in. To breath. To body. To the present moment. It may look like I’m just flailing my arms around but it’s so much more than that.

You’re witnessing an active conversation that grounds me mentally, physically, and spiritually.

On the easy days, everything flows. On the challenging days, I’ve already laid the foundation. Something steady to fall back on, so I can move through any wave with patience, peace, and presence. 🌊

Do you have a morning movement practice that grounds you in nature, release tension, quiets things down, calms the chaos?

If not, this could be the missing link in your movement and mental health.

We have so many helpful follow-along videos to support your morning movement practice @primalmovement.org. 💜

#primal #morning #meditation #mindfulmovement #grounding taken in Florida by @coach.karlee

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4 days ago

Introducing The Art of Journaling 🌿

We spend so much time working on our bodies. But how often do we slow down enough to listen to them?

Our newest program just dropped inside the Primal Membership: The Art of Journaling, a 12-week Primal Stillness practice.

Coach Karlee will guide you through a weekly practice combining journaling, mindset work, breath work, and movement to help you slow down, tune in, and reconnect with yourself. Each practice offers a different way to explore your thoughts, build awareness, and bring what you discover back into your body through a few minutes of freestyle movement..

Some weeks, you’ll dump everything out of your head. Some weeks, you’ll move first and write after. Some weeks, you’ll simply practice gratitude.

Each practice takes about 15 minutes. Do it on your own time, at your own pace, wherever you are. Outside is even better. ☀️

There’s no pressure to get it “right.” Just a little time to slow down, tune in, and create some space between you and the noise.

We’re learning to decompress the mind and cultivate peace and presence through the simple practice of journaling.

And that’s just one piece of the membership.

Inside, you’ll also find guided movement, strength training, lifestyle practices around breath, rest, and nature, and a community of coaches and people doing the same work.

Because taking care of yourself goes beyond your workouts. It’s how you move, how you rest, and how you show up for your life.

Whether you want to move without pain, build real strength, or feel more connected to yourself, there’s a place for you here.

Come as you are. We’ll meet you there.

🌿 Join us at primalmovement.org and start your practice today.

#primal #journal #journaling #mindset #mindfulness by @coach.karlee

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5 days ago

Your gait is the 🔑🔥🔥🔥

We’re quick to load athletes up under a barbell, but often neglect one of the most important skills in athleticism: gait.

Running is so much more than conditioning. It’s foot loading, hip rotation, force transfer, and whole-body coordination working together in a continuous cycle.

I believe there is a natural, efficient way to move. Understand this cycle, and you unlock so much more potential in how you run, perform, and move as an athlete.

Unlock your gait. Unleash your athleticism. 🔓🌪️

#athlete #gait #running #athletics #training by @coach.karlee

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8 days ago

“I need more accountability.”

Say less.

😤💪

#movement #primal #coaching #coach #sledpull taken in Melbourne, Florida by @coach.karlee

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10 days ago

Your body was born to move 🌿

Reclaim your natural movement and:
• Move with less pain and tension
• Build mobility and flexibility
• Regain the natural strength to walk, run, climb, jump and play at any age

Join the Primal Movement Membership for $53/month:
• 5 online movement and education courses
• Weekly live movement classes on Zoom
• A private coaching community to ask questions and get feedback
• Discounts on personal training and live Primal Movement events

Become part of the process again. Start your primal movement journey today at primalmovement.org

#primalmovement #naturalmovement #mobilitytraining #homeworkouts #functionaltraining by @coach.karlee

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11 days ago

Movement Hygiene : Lunges 🦵🫧

Learning to lunge well is more advanced than people think.

The way I see most people perform this movement is purely muscle-based and it ends up being → rigid, robotic, stiff. It’s not a pattern you’d naturally find in your everyday environment.

But a lunge can feed so much more than strength.

Done well, it can build strength, mobility, coordination, and athletic patterning all at once.

Here’s the difference:

➡️ 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗽𝘆, 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀

Everything travels in a straight line. Typically, I see the knee drive forward, biasing a downward + inward load while the hip stays locked facing front, putting much of the load through the quad and knee.

I also often see aggressive arch collapse, while the back leg loses internal rotation and synchronization.

This is a pattern I commonly see in people who struggle with knee pain and one I wouldn’t recommend training as your default.

➡️ 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴, 𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀

The hip and ankle rotate harmoniously, and the knee tracks with them rather than fighting against them.

Force can travel through the whole chain, foot, hip, and spine, more like what happens during walking and running.

The foot maintains healthy structure. The glutes contribute to the movement. And the whole system works together to create strong, coordinated single-leg loading.

So ask yourself: How and why are you doing this exercise in the first place?

Check the quality of your lunge:

How is your front foot loading into the ground? Does it collapse? Are you too heel-heavy?

Are you noticing how your knee tracks? Does it open as you descend, or collapse inward?

How does your chest rotate?

And are you considering how this movement translates once you leave the training environment?

Because the HOW matters.

Clean up the way you move, not just the movement you’re doing. 👣✔️

#buildwithoutbreaking
#primal #injuryprevention #lunge #training by @coach.karlee

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15 days ago

Mvmt Monologues | The Natural Gait Cycle

A truth I live by: I believe there’s a natural way we’re designed to move forward pain and injury free.

With the right inputs, our bodies have an incredible capacity to adapt, coordinate, and carry us through life with more freedom and less friction.

Gait cycle work isn’t flashy. It can look “weird,” like exaggerated crawling, slow walking drills, pauses, stretches, movements that don’t look like “training” at all.

BUT this is where the magic happens. I’m teaching my body to coordinate how energy moves through me as I move forward. 🌀

Strength, mobility, performance, even aesthetics are cool byproducts of moving well.

For myself and others, dialing in our gait has become one of the most important physical and meditative movement practices to do. It’s an opportunity to pull presence, focus, intention, and refinement of how I move through the world.

I want to move well for life long after sport.

And I want that connection and conversation to keep going.

Save, share or send to a friend who loves a good walk & talk → https://youtu.be/eY9YwCObnNg

Join the convo & community → @primalmovement.org

#movement #gait #walking #walk #injuryprevention taken in Melbourne, Florida by @coach.karlee

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18 days ago

Sunday Slow Flowwwww 🌊

Do you know your body talks to you?

Throughout the week, especially Sundays, I have very deep discussions with my body through the medium of movement. These movement conversations, like in this post, allow me to do aggressive athletic things AND live a pain free life. 👣🙏

Deep squat holds, groundwork rocking, hinge mobility, some crawling.

Each one chosen today not because someone else told me to do them, but because I chose them. 🐆 I know they will help me realign, engage, coordinate, decompress. It’s exactly what my athletic movement menu needed to serve up.

I’m strengthening. I’m lengthening. But more than anything, I’m listening, truly listening to what my body is telling me it needs to reset, refocus, internally and externally, mind and body.

So what is your body asking for more of today? Or less of?

You can’t build a strong foundation on a body you haven’t checked in with. 👀

Need help reconnected with your body and creating a daily movement practice? → @primalmovement.org

#movement #primal #injuryprevention #sunday #mobility taken in Melbourne, Florida by @coach.karlee

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