Fellow Wayfinders & Cartographers
No wayfinder ever truly travels alone. We follow paths others have discovered, stumble upon trails they’ve marked, and occasionally meet fellow explorers at unexpected.
The Wayfinder’s Guild
The Anti-Fitness Project isn’t a solo expedition… it’s part of a broader ecosystem of explorers challenging conventional maps and charting new territories. These fellow wayfinders aren’t “influencers” or “content creators.” They’re genuine folks with real talents each mapping different aspects of our shared human experience.
I share these connections not because some marketing guru told me “building a network” would boost my SEO, but because their maps have illuminated territories I might otherwise have missed. Each offers a unique perspective that can be layered with others to create richer, more nuanced understanding of what it means to move like a human.
Karen McFarland – Oracle
Oracles aren’t fortune tellers or psychics. They won’t predict your lottery numbers or tell you when you’ll meet your soulmate.
Karen doesn’t hand out prefabricated maps with X-marks-the-spot destinations… she helps you recalibrate your own internal compass to navigate by your soul’s true north.
Think of her as a translator rather than a tour guide. She channels higher wisdom that helps you remember what you already bloody know but have forgotten among all the noise and bollocks of modern life.
What makes Karen’s Oracle work so powerful is that she never positions herself as the expert of your territory. Unlike coaches, therapists, or mentors who offer strategies based on their experience or training, she translates divine messages and archetypal energies that reconnect you with your inner truth. She doesn’t tell you what to do, instead she helps you remember who you are.
Working with Karen has been like finding an ancient navigation system that doesn’t rely on GPS or someone else’s directions. Her guidance offers clarity without false certainty, illumination without prescription. For those seeking to move beyond the standardised maps we’ve all been handed, her work creates space to access deeper wisdom that conventional approaches never even acknowledge exists.
If you’re tired of being told exactly where to go and how to get there—whether in life, movement, or spiritual practice then Karen’s Oracle work offers something profoundly different… the recognition that the most important map is already within you, waiting to be remembered rather than learned.
Espen Artio – Rune and Seithyr Guide
Runes are an ancient alphabet but more importantly, they’re a way to navigate inner landscapes and ancestral wisdom.
Espen approaches these elder futhark symbols not as static historical artifacts but as living, evolving tools for connecting with the threads that weave through our personal and collective existence.
What makes Espen’s approach so bloody brilliant is how they queer the traditional runic practices, revealing dimensions of these ancient symbols that conventional interpretations have often overlooked or suppressed. Their work deliberately adds new layers to the ancient crafts of weaving and thread-work while honoring the historical foundations these practices are built upon.
As a queer, nonbinary folk magic practitioner, mystic, and witch, Espen brings perspectives to runic tradition that challenge heteronormative and binary interpretations of these powerful symbols. They create spaces where ancestral magic is reclaimed and reimagined, where the rigid gender roles often imposed on historical practices are unraveled and rewoven into more inclusive patterns.
Their “Tending The Mystery” work reveals how these ancient symbols can speak to contemporary queer experience, offering navigation tools for those existing beyond conventional boundaries. Espen’s integration of animism, plant knowledge, and traditional witchcraft with runic practice creates a multidimensional map that illuminates connections between seen and unseen worlds.
For those looking to explore territories beyond standardised spiritual practices, Espen’s trauma-informed, queer-centered approach to the runes offers pathways that honor complexity rather than enforcing conformity.
Ido Portal – Movement Culture
When the fitness industry was busy selling exercise packages and muscle isolation, Ido Portal was creating something far more profound… a comprehensive philosophy that approaches movement as art, language, and intelligence.
He doesn’t just break fitness rules; he reveals them to be tragically limited conceptions of human movement potential.
His work transcends the pathetically narrow categories we’ve been handed. This isn’t about “functional fitness” or “mobility training” (those terms are still trapped inside the industrial fitness paradigm). Ido’s Movement Culture exists in a different dimension entirely, drawing from martial arts, capoeira, gymnastics, dance, and countless indigenous movement practices to create something that defies categorisation.
What makes Ido’s cartography so revolutionary is his concept of “movement intelligence” as a sophisticated understanding that treats movement not as repetitive patterns to be mastered but as a complex language to be developed and spoken fluently. While the fitness industry reduces bodies to machines that perform standardised functions, Ido reveals the body as an instrument of expression with its own wisdom and voice.
I’ve never encountered anyone who speaks about movement with such taste, elegance, and philosophical depth. His workshops aren’t just about learning techniques; they’re about fundamentally transforming your relationship with your body and expanding your movement vocabulary beyond what conventional maps even acknowledge exists.
For those seeking to explore territories far beyond the cramped confines of mainstream exercise culture, Ido’s approach opens up vast landscapes that most of us never even knew were there to explore. He doesn’t just offer an alternative path, he reveals entire continents of movement possibility that conventional fitness maps deliberately erase.
A Note on Connections
The wayfinders featured here aren’t some fancy “affiliate network” or corporate sponsorship bollocks. They’re actual humans doing brilliant work that I’ve personally experienced and found valuable. Some are friends, some are colleagues, and some I just bloody admire from afar.
Look, let’s be straight about this: sometimes there’s value exchange happening between us. Not the exploitative capitalist kind where faceless corporations extract every penny they can, but the actual human kind where people support each other’s work and help each other thrive. The kind humans have been doing since we lived in caves, not the kind invented by marketing departments.
And here’s the thing, these exchanges often don’t involve money at all. Sometimes it’s a barter of services, like a movement program for a reading, copywriting for a logo design, or talking about each other’s work to others. Sometimes the most valuable exchange is simply a conversation with someone who “gets it” or offers a perspective you’d never considered.
I’d encourage you to stop seeing value solely in terms of cash transactions. Reach out to fellow professionals and wayfinders to explore what you might swap. What skills do you have that others might value? What could they offer that would enrich your journey? The more we operate outside the dominant economic system built on competition, growth, and exploitation, the more space we create for genuine connection and mutual support.
I’m only sharing maps that have genuinely expanded my territory. If I’ve directed you towards someone’s work, it’s because I reckon it might illuminate parts of your map that conventional approaches leave in darkness, not because some audience-building strategy said I should “collaborate” to “expand my reach.”
If that means sometimes I get something in return when you connect with someone I’ve recommended, I’m not going to pretend otherwise or apologise for it. That’s just humans supporting humans in doing work that matters.