Your walk is a critical aspect of your female image. Learning how to walk in a naturally feminine way can do wonders to enhance your overall appearance.
Unfortunately, it’s easy to go from one extreme (a masculine walk) to the other (over-exaggerated hip swinging).
How can you find a happy medium as you master your feminine movements? I’m glad you asked!
In this article, I share 3 simple tips to help you achieve a natural, womanly walk. Read on to learn more!
1. Try the Hip Matrix
A big difference between men and women is that women tend to have more fluid body movements.
That means you can sway your hips all you want – but until you learn how to “loosen up” your body, your feminine walk will look stiff and unnatural.
The Hip Matrix can help with this. Created by movement specialist Rob Brinded, the Hip Matrix exercise is designed to release tension and free up your body movements so you can achieve a flowing, feminine walk.
Watch the video above and then try it for yourself. If you compare your walk before and after, I promise you’ll be amazed by the difference!
P.S. You can learn more about Rob’s approach to feminine movement in my Stepping Out Secrets Program.
2. Practice in High Heels
Women have a lower center of gravity than men due to their wider 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 trying to keep your shoulders still as you walk. This forces you to use your hips for balance.
Once you’ve mastered hip walking in heels, practice the same movements in flat shoes.
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! Your natural stride is probably longer, so work on taking shorter steps.
Note: The higher your heels are, the shorter your steps should be.
Conclusion
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. Please share in the comments below.
Love,
Lucille
P.S. Would you like to learn more advanced feminine movement strategies? My Stepping Out Secrets Program will show you how to master all the elements of a beautiful feminine image, including: moves, curves, fashion, beauty, voice, confidence, and more!
The reason some don’t wear heels, is because we can’t due to foot problems. I have to be very careful about what footwear I have on…otherwise my feel start hurting a lot…and quick!!!
I find that I have difficulty wearing really high heels, I feel like I am falling forward. I can look natural in a 3″ heel , but 4″ is just not happening. I practice all the time but do not feel confident enough to go out in public.
i’m 67. i walk in heels constantly. at first i had trouble. i would feel sharp pain in my under toe area, stretching ligaments that was so bad i would have to remove the heels. so i got a treadmill and walked on my toes for about 5 min a day for about a week to a month. no shoes just toes. now i don’t have that pain ever… many of my female friends my age are jealous that i can wear heels. my body was conditioned as a male’s and after i got my tendons in line that conditioning seems to have enhanced my ability to negate age in my knees and legs. the feminine body seems susceptible to lots of leg issues with age even without hard stress from work or play. men on the other hand seem to accumulate leg stress from sports issues or work problems. i think both body types could benefit from treadmill conditioning? slow and gradual and directed.
as for the hip movement. i have diverticulitis and some running and walking gets rid of that. however running has a bad effect on my spine. so i tried hip swaying while i walked. wow! works great! i’m not sure if i looked forced but it doesn’t matter when you are curing vision blurring from diverticulitis. the biggest thing i noticed in walking is small steps and elbows. elbows in girls! elbows out is a male thing that makes the body look bigger than it is. elbows in makes for graceful movement. and when you sway your hips it places the arms in a strategic position to accommodate the sway. so i’m practicing my sway and at first it is exaggerated. but that is good as it help with my condition. but after awhile the sway gets more subtle and constant and i always walk that way. another thing about hip sway is it increases blood flow to my lower back which alleviates the aforementioned back pain! wow! i was meant to be a woman after all! mother nature knew all along. testosterone poisoning is a hard thing to get over sometimes.
Nice try
I’m 61 and have been unable to sway even after two yrs of hormones where can I go to learn to sway?
I agree with Mandy. Whilst it’s nice to have that feminine flow and hip movement, when exagerated it looks fake and can get you clocked just as easily as walking like an ape. Somewhere inbetween is good.
Also if you go down to the mall spend some time looking at how woman walk, you’ll see the majority of them don’t actually walk like catwalk models. You’ll be surprised how many walk like men. Something to think about!
As a biological woman I can say that NOT all women walk the same way. There are more athletic women who have sharper strides (ie. Kate Middleton) and then yes there are the balletic flowing movements that some women also have. Probably what is MOST authentic is for guys-who-need-to-be-gals to do is just be truly yourself through and through. Trying too hard to fit into a teeny weeny stereotype won’t make you ‘more’ female. Nope. Just be yourself. ps: We women don’t all wear those ridiculously stupid heels….sore feet does NOT make for feeling extra female. I can wear flat shoes and OOZE femaleness. It isn’t just the shoes or height of them — more an attitude is the thing to be cultivated, an internal viewpoint if you like. Good luck!
Here is my contribution; if you are planing to go out, a couple of hours before, or more if possible, wear the highest heels you have and walk as much as possible around your home…then wear the shoes that you were planning to use in the first place and enjoy the difference, these shoes have to be at least an inch lower.
Sometimes, when I do that, feel so comfortable that I forget that I´m wearing high heels and when I finally realise it; it feels so good! and also realise that I had been walking exactly the way I like, confident, feminine but natural.
Unfortunately the the pleasure is so intense, that I loss the rhythm and have to stop or sit for a while
I may already have fairly loose hips I’ll have to make sure but I’ve always leaned to one side or the other on one leg I think I learned to as a child and never really broke the habit I noticed it a while back I may even already walk like a woman for the most part anyway I never had a man to pattern after early in life as I’ve said before I was 11 years old before my Mom remarried later I payed more attention to guys but mainly the upper body movements I was a big fan of Bruce Lee and in my opinion the fluidity of which Jeet Kune Do is based on is very similar the way of the dragon is fluidity be like water it may be different but for many years women kept the secrets of martial arts in I think they created it not men
I’m not usually a big reader but this is information I’ve been longing for too long and as far as participating that’s the easy part and I love it anyway its bringing out my inner woman I think and she really loves it and you Lucille thank you Angel
Walking in heels I do need to loosen up probably I’m very stiff anymore possibly because I’m so stressed out not being able to dress en femme once I get back on my own I’m going to start a stretching routine maybe the one above will help I will try it I will be moving soon a month or so and t may take a bit to get the internet back so I can stay up to date on the latest feminine secrets and fashion tips but back to loosening up loosen up my hips by stretching them forwards on each leg as well as side to side okay got it I did practically grow up in heels I’m not sure it counts but even 2 years ago I could run in heels mainly from years of close calls almost getting caught crossdressing or even getting caught crossdressed I could still be doing it wrong though I still need more practice not to mention want more practice
hi, i have been going dressed for long. have been working on my movement s and voice and have been quite successful, thanks to lucille, however i have never tried 6″, wow it is no seductive even thinking about it. though my facebook men folk call me every now and then. but walking in flats is always more comfy..
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