Move With a Nurse™
We move with you.
Walk. Ride. Roll. Stretch. Play. Every body can move, every step counts, and every person belongs.
◐ IN DEVELOPMENT Group events aren’t scheduled yet. Founding nurse leaders are being gathered now.
Nurses shouldn’t only tell people to move. We can move with them.
Walk beside them. Ride beside them. Roll beside them.
Stretch, hike, dance, and play beside them.
Help people rediscover movement they actually enjoy.
◐ In development — not currently offered. Move With a Nurse™ is a developing Kitchen Monk™ community-health concept. The gatherings described on this page are future programming and aren’t yet available in any community. The ideas in Move today below are available to you right now.
This will never be a fitness club for people who are already fit. It’s meant for families, older adults, beginners, people living with chronic illness or disability, caregivers, and anyone who’d just like fresh air and company on a Saturday morning. Each gathering will be simple: move at your own pace, learn from a short, friendly nurse talk, connect with at least one new person, and leave with one small next step.
● AVAILABLE NOW · FREE
You don’t have to wait for us. Move today.
Group gatherings are still forming. Until then, pick one of these and try it today. Small counts.
🚶 Walk five minutes
Around the block, down the hallway, or to the mailbox and back. Bring someone if you can.
♿ Roll or move from your chair
A short roll outside, or seated marching, arm circles, and gentle reaches during a TV show.
🌿 Stretch and breathe
Reach tall, roll your shoulders, and take a few slow breaths. Gentle is enough.
👨👩👧 Move with your people
A dance break in the kitchen, a family walk after dinner, or a slow stroll with the dog.
Go at your own pace. Stop and rest if something hurts, or if you feel dizzy or unusually short of breath. If you have a heart or lung condition, recent surgery, pregnancy, or balance concerns, check with your own healthcare professional first. For chest pain, fainting, or any emergency, call 911.
🦅 Momma Eagle’s walk
150 minutes a week, one loop at a time
Nathanael’s mom, Nina, walks the Hammond Marina basin near the mouth of the Columbia: boats, gulls, sea breezes, and the breakwater where Willy made his famous jump in Free Willy. It’s her favorite walk, and it’s how she gets in at least 150 minutes of movement every week, the amount U.S. guidelines recommend for most adults.
Find your own marina walk: a place you love to look at, and a few minutes more than yesterday.
Illustration created with AI assistance
The best medicine might be a sidewalk and a friend.
Someone walks. Someone rides. Someone rolls. A toddler naps in a stroller and a dog leads the way. A nurse is right there in the group, not behind a desk. No one is told what to do. Everyone is simply invited.
A moment by the Lamp: what movement did you love before someone called it exercise?
Illustration created with AI assistance.
There’s no bad day to move, only different ways to move
Pacific Northwest weather changes fast. So can your plan. The best movement is movement that fits your body, your life, your environment, and your joy.
🌧️ Rainy day
Walk a mall, library, or covered path; stretch at home; dance in the kitchen; visit a community recreation center. A rain jacket turns drizzle into a forest walk.
☀️ Sunny day
Park, garden, waterfront path, or bike ride. Bring water and sun protection, and go early or late on hot days.
❄️ Cold day
Dress in layers, watch for ice, or move indoors with chair exercises, stairs, or a stretching video.
🔥 Smoky-air day
Check the air quality at AirNow.gov ↗. When it’s unhealthy, move indoors, especially if you have asthma, heart or lung conditions, are pregnant, or are an older adult or child.
Heavy day? Try Rainy Day Rescue: small steps are still steps.
Group movement we’re building
These gatherings aren’t scheduled yet. Here’s what they’ll look like when they launch.
◐ IN DEVELOPMENT
🚶 Walk With a Nurse™
Free community walks with three easy pace groups and a Trail Buddy for anyone who wants one.
◐ IN DEVELOPMENT
🚲 Bike With a Nurse™
Relaxed family, beginner, e-bike, and adaptive rides, with helmets and bike checks every time.
◐ ALSO IN DEVELOPMENT Rolling routes designed first for wheelchair users, gentle stretching and chair movement, and, with qualified partners, hiking, swimming, paddling, pickleball, yoga, tai chi, and adaptive sports. When a nurse isn’t the right guide, we’ll look for a physical therapist or other qualified professional instead.
For families: movement should feel like adventure, never punishment. Shebah leads a Wiggle Trail and Willow leads quiet stretching on Flourishing Guardians.
After rehab: SAIL to Trail™ (in development) will be a welcoming place to keep moving after physical therapy. It complements rehabilitation and never replaces it.
Help start one near you
We’re gathering a founding network of nurses, students, faith communities, parks departments, and community partners. A simple Nurse Leader Toolkit is in development. There’s no chapter system or certification yet; this is an invitation to help build it.
📰 Nurses moving communities, everywhere
Nurse wellness, workforce well-being, and community and public health nursing are happening all across the profession. See the latest headlines, refreshed automatically:
Workforce & Well-Being headlines →
Public & Community Health Nursing headlines →
American Holistic Nurses Association ↗ · Nursing Resource Hub →
Headlines come from outside news sources. Linked organizations are independent and do not sponsor or endorse Kitchen Monk™.
Safety & participation
Right now, there’s nothing to book. You can’t yet schedule a nurse walking partner, a nurse-led ride, hike, swim, or game, or a personal exercise plan through Kitchen Monk. When gatherings begin, we’ll announce them clearly on this page.
When they launch, Move With a Nurse™ gatherings will be community wellness and education, not physical therapy, rehabilitation, personal training, supervised exercise testing, an emergency service, or an individual medical visit. Having a nurse present won’t create a nurse–patient relationship. Nurses bring encouragement, education, and company; physical therapists, rehabilitation teams, and exercise professionals bring different, specialized care, and we’ll point you to them when that’s what you need.
If you have significant health conditions, new symptoms, recent surgery, pregnancy, or mobility concerns, talk with your own healthcare professional about what’s right for you. Go at your own pace and rest whenever you need. For chest pain, fainting, or any emergency, call 911.
Before any event launches, we plan to have risk assessments, emergency action plans, CPR/AED and first-aid readiness, weather and air-quality plans, route safety review, helmets for every ride, and lifeguards for anything in the water.
A nurse steps outside. A neighbor joins.
Someone who hasn’t exercised in years walks five minutes.
Someone who has been lonely learns another person’s name.
Five minutes becomes ten. A stranger becomes a friend.
And flourishing becomes something we practice together.
MOVE TOGETHER. FLOURISH TOGETHER.
🌲 From the EVERgreen World
In the story, Willow teaches at a young one’s eye level, and the lamp lights only the next few steps of the trail. In real life, Move With a Nurse is about walking beside someone rather than merely instructing them.
Nursing professionals: explore movement, fatigue, workforce well-being, and nurse flourishing at FlourishingNursing.org →
About this page
Review status: internally clinically reviewed
Written by
Nathanael Elijah Smith, FNP-C, DipACLM, with AI-assisted drafting
Clinically reviewed by
Nathanael Elijah Smith, FNP-C, DipACLM
Independent external review
Not yet completed
Last updated
September 2026
Key sources
Everyday movement ideas are consistent with the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), which note that some movement is better than none.
Move With a Nurse™ and its activity pathways are developing Kitchen Monk™ initiatives, not affiliated with any other walking or movement organization. Kitchen Monk™ provides educational information intended to support informed conversations with qualified healthcare professionals; it is not a substitute for personalized diagnosis, treatment, or emergency care.
