Train wild. Move free. Recover deep.
Moves & Mobility
Functional movement and mobility training stripped back to its essence. Sand dunes as resistance. Atlas trails as conditioning. The body as the only equipment you need.
The experience
Moves & Mobility
Designed for movement practitioners, CrossFit coaches, and anyone who trains seriously. Five to eight days of functional movement in terrain that humbles you: sand sprints, dune climbs, trail running, animal flow on rock. Paired with deep recovery protocols: cold plunge, contrast therapy, fascial work, and sleep optimisation.
Duration
8 days, 7 nights
Group size
8–14 guests
Format
Co-branded with partner studio
What to expect
Moves & Mobility · 8 days
Morning movement sessions in nature. Afternoon mobility and recovery workshops. Cold exposure protocols. Fascial release and bodywork. Designed for intermediate to advanced movers.
How a training week is built
Load in the morning, repair in the afternoon, and terrain instead of equipment.
01
The session goes where the ground is hardest
Sand sprints on the erg, climbs on a dune face, trail intervals in an Atlas valley. The terrain sets the resistance, which means no two sessions load the body the same way.
02
Mobility is a session, not a cooldown
The afternoon block is its own work: joint ranges, loaded stretching, fascial release with a therapist. It is scheduled because people skip it when it is optional.
03
Cold, then heat, then sleep
Cold exposure at dawn or after the hardest session, hammam at the end of the day. The sequence is chosen for recovery, not for the photograph.
04
One day that is deliberately easy
Mid-week the volume drops on purpose. Training adaptation happens in the gap, and a week with no gap is a week of accumulated fatigue carried home.
Where the terrain does the coaching
Three grounds, three different stimuli.
Erg Chigaga
Dry sand at an angle is the most honest conditioning tool there is: no impact, no ceiling, instant feedback. Nights are cold enough to sleep properly, which matters more than any session.
High Atlas
Altitude, gradient and rock. Trail work here loads the posterior chain and the ankles in a way flat ground never will, and the valleys hold a usable temperature when the south is too hot.
Atlantic coast
Beach running on wet sand, ocean swims, and air that stays under thirty degrees through the summer. It is the terrain for volume when the interior is closed.
Training in Morocco, answered
- What level is this for?
- Intermediate and above. You should already train three or more times a week and be able to run or hike for ninety minutes. We will say so honestly if a group's level and the terrain do not match.
- Is equipment provided?
- Minimal, and that is the point: bands, a few kettlebells, ropes. The dunes, the trails and bodyweight carry the rest. Coaches who want specific kit tell us at the planning stage and we bring it in.
- Can a coach bring their own athletes?
- Yes, and that is the usual case. The coach keeps the programming and the relationship with their people; Umnya carries the ground, the logistics, the food and the recovery. The coach's own place is free from eight paying guests.
- When is it too hot to train in the desert?
- June to the end of August. The erg passes 45°C by day and does not drop below 29°C at night, so we do not run performance weeks there. September to May is the window, and the coast works through the summer.
From the journal
4 min
Functional Movement in the Wild: Training Beyond the Gym
Sand provides unpredictable resistance. Rocks demand proprioception. The desert doesn't care about your PR, and that's exactly why it works.
4 min
How Sand Dunes Became the Ultimate Training Ground
Elite athletes have trained on sand for decades. Umnya takes that principle and places it in the most spectacular dune system on earth.
4 min
8 Days of Movement in Morocco's Most Remote Landscape
A week-by-week breakdown of what happens when you train exclusively in nature: no equipment, no gym, no excuses.
Before the dates exist
Tell us when. We will tell you where.
We open a small number of weeks each season. Choose the window you have in mind and what you come for, and you will hear about those dates before they are published.
Which window?
What you come for