How to Walk Like a Woman
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Your walk is a critical aspect of your feminine image. The two biggest mistakes I see crossdressers and transgender women make are:
- Walking like men
- Over-exaggerating their movements
In this article, I’m going to reveal how to achieve a natural, feminine walk. But first, let’s look at the 3 biggest differences between male and female walks:
- Men tend to walk with a “shoulder swagger”, while women sway their hips when they walk.
- Men have sharper movements, while women usually have more fluid movements.
- Men walk with longer strides than women do.
Here are my top 3 tips for walking like a woman:
1. Do the Hip Matrix
Most advice for TG women focuses on the mechanics of how to walk like a woman. But this advice ignores the fact that males carry more tension in their bodies and therefore have stiffer movements.
Until you learn how to “loosen up”, your feminine walk will always look stiff and unnatural.
My friend Rob Brinded is a movement specialist and one of the foremost experts in male/female movement reprogramming. His “Matrix” exercises are designed to release tension and free up your body movements so you can walk like a woman.
Check out his “Hip Matrix” video below and then try it for yourself. If you do a test walk before and after the Hip Matrix, I promise you’ll be amazed by the difference! (You can learn more about Rob’s approach to feminine movement in my Stepping Out Secrets program.)
2. Wear high heels
Women have a lower center of gravity than men due to their larger hips. This creates that sexy hip sway that’s characteristic of a feminine walk.
Forcing your hips to sway usually looks unnatural. Instead, practice walking in high heels. High heels change your center of gravity and exaggerate the forward curve of your spine. This helps release the hips, which naturally feminizes your movements.
You can enhance this effect by keeping your shoulders still when you walk. This forces you to use your hips for balance.
Once you’ve mastered hip walking in heels, you can practice the same movements in flat shoes. (Though why anybody would want to wear flats instead of heels is beyond me!)
3. Shorten your stride
Shortening your stride is another easy and effective way to feminize your walk.
The average woman’s step length (the distance from the toe of one foot to the toe of the opposite foot) is 26”. So if you want to be scientific about it, get out a ruler and measure your steps! Keep in mind that the higher your heels are, the shorter your steps should be.
There are other subtle elements that define a feminine walk, but these tips are a great place to start. Give them a try and let me know what you think! I’d also love to hear about any other movement tips or techniques you’ve found helpful.
As always, thank you for reading and participating!
Love,
Lucille
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Great site, great tips. My sisters and I grew up taking dance together from about the age of three until graduation from high school. Mom got the idea in the back of head that someday we would all be models for penny’s or sear’s or some catalog. She would make up practice walking back and forth in heels, keeping our shoulders still balancing a book on our heads. We all thought it was great fun.
Yes I agree with Deborah, a good exercise is to simply walk on your tip-toes–it increases tension on your hips, lowering you center-of-gravity, which itself makes the walk read as female. Also, it shortens your stride and strengthens your ankle and instep muscles, which helps you walk in heels!
As for walking in heels, I think this helps us connect with our innocent side as we all probably started out, when young, trying out mother’s shoes, and that innocence is refreshing, breaking down inhibitions.
Hya Lucille,
A really good way to walk femininely,I find,is to walk on your tip-toes;it leans you into a natural womanly sway,helping your hips to pivot with an ease of movement.I naturally walk like this when I’m in barefeet and it’s always been a subconscious way of walking(the first sign of my inner femme self).
You’re doing a fantastic job here,Lucille,helping so many of us to realise our female selves.I’m looking forward to putting more pictures on here and improving on my look,
Love,
Deborah.XXX
wow! what an awesome site! so glad to have you.
I’m very impressed on how female you look!
dear lucille gee you give such good advice keep up the great work coket
Thank you for this advice. I realized that my walk was not entirely feminine and have been trying to improve it for a very long time. I practice often and always set up a camera and take videos of my walk. I always wear high heels and I try to take a shorter stride both of which have greatly improved my walk and now I feel it is geting to be perfect.
I have always been limber and athletic so mastering heels took just a few hours and some calf stretching later, grin. I have also long had a heel-toe walk from a habit of balancing on curbs and other things as I was walking. Now I need to concentrate on keeping my shoulders back and down while holding my stomach in,and my head up, walking proud in the person I am. I wear yoga pants with 4″ heels all the time with a variety of tops and never get a second look. I guess that’s good or bad depending on one’s perspective. Heck I live in Alabama and 60% of the real women around me are whales and with a cincher I am 39/28/35 so I am in the minority when it comes to shape, grin.
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Hi Lucille,
What a fantastic thread and what fantastic advice Lucille.
The world of feminine movement and in particular the female walk is such a huge area and you have come up with things that are of immense help and advice that helps to open up our eyes as to what exactly goes on within the realms of the female walk. Outstanding.
Claire
I just found your website not too long ago and it’s awesome, a lot but a lot good tips on to be more “woman” and yes I am a man.
oh thank you! Loved the tips! Thank you for sharing!
i always wear heels whenever i can and do notice a difference in posture. even when im in male clothing people say i walk like a girl which i love hearing, keep the advice coming its great xx
Dear Lucille,
Once again I have enjoyed and learnt something from your tips. For the past 4 to 5 years I have spent a lot of time having a glass of wine sitting ourside and just watching women either walking by, and or watching them interact with friends. With regards to walking what I have discovered is that older women (my age group) walk with a less pronounced hip sway, maybe because few of them wear high heels. Younger women (girls) do sway their hips which is very noticeable. You are 100% correct about the shorter steps, and being more relaxed in their body movements. When I first whent out I was terrified, convinced that everybody would know that I was a man dressed as a woman, I was aware I was wearing a bra, a wig and 2″ heels, and although I was excited at being out I now realise I did everything wrong! But thanks to you Lucille with your wonderful tips and pracitcal help, I am getting better every day, even to the point that a man held a door open for me and as I went by he gently patted my rear!
Thanks again and as always I wish you all the very best,
Love, Lesley Ann xxxxxx
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