South African roots. A global practice.
Lawrence van Lingen was born and raised in South Africa, where he trained as a sports chiropractor — and competed as an elite athlete himself. That combination matters. He has never separated the clinical from the lived. Every principle he teaches, he has tested in his own body.
Over more than 30 years, his practice grew to include Olympic and Ironman champions, Red Bull South Africa athletes, and world-class competitors across rugby, cricket, golf, and tennis. He's based now in Boulder and Sunshine Canyon, Colorado — a place that suits someone who thinks at altitude.
But alongside the elite, he has always worked with everyday people: runners frustrated by recurring injury, athletes the system has treated as collections of broken parts rather than whole human beings. That equal measure is deliberate. It tells you something essential about how he sees people.
THE PHILOSOPHY
He doesn't fix people. He creates the environment.
Lawrence's work is built on a single conviction: there is nothing wrong with you that cannot be addressed by going upstream and working with the whole system. His methods are unconventional by mainstream sports medicine standards. He's made his peace with that.
Solve upstream
Consequences downstream tend to fall into place when the root cause is addressed. Surface fixes without system capacity don't hold — they create relapses or migrate the injury elsewhere.
Add signal, not noise
Go deeper, not wider. The instinct to add more — more exercises, more cues, more gadgets — is almost always the wrong one. The body learns through clarity, not volume.
The body is a system
The Achilles problem might live in the lower back. The breathing pattern might be driving the hip restriction. Lawrence has seen this too many times to treat parts in isolation.
Mastery, not medals
Build the runner that can train. Then build the runner that can race. Sustainable performance comes from depth of understanding, not tactical shortcuts.
Trust your movement
Deep, unshakeable trust in how you move is what separates the best athletes from everyone else. Lawrence's goal is to build that trust — not dependency on him or any external system.
Curiosity over anxiety
Neuroplasticity requires a parasympathetic state. You cannot learn well when you are scared. Curiosity and play are not soft values — they are physiological prerequisites for change.
A teacher, not just a practitioner.
Lawrence has spent the last decade building LVL UP Movement into something larger than a clinical practice. The Running Revamp — his 12-week flagship course — has transformed the movement of thousands of people worldwide, many of whom had tried and failed with every conventional approach available to them.
The LVL UP Movement hosts live weekly movement classes, masterclasses, and an ever-growing on-demand library. His Flow Ropes are hand-crafted and used by athletes around the world. The LVL UP Movement podcast launches in May 2026 — exploring the intersection of lived experience and rigorous science.
Everything Lawrence builds serves a single purpose: to give people the conditions to express what is already within them. The elite and the everyday. The injured and the high-performing. All of them, already whole.
His work sits at the intersection of biomechanics, breathwork, fascial integration, and nervous system health. He couples resonance breathing with crawling patterns. He looks at vagal tone as the foundation of authentic movement. None of this is mainstream. All of it works.
LVL UP Movement Podcast
The LVL UP Movement podcast is about peeling back the layers of conditioning to find what's authentically true for each of us. Join us for honest conversations with people actively working on themselves—in their movement, their mindset, and their lives. No performance, just a return to what's real.
Ready to move the way you were built to?
Whether you're an elite athlete or someone who has been told there's nothing more to be done — there is a place for you here.