Play-based Functional Fitness Bowden

Name: Play-based Functional Fitness Bowden
Start: 2026-01-10T08:00:00+10:30
End: 2026-01-10T08:00:00+10:30
Location: Emu Park

About

Starved for play?

When we feel the rush, exercise comes naturally.

Play-based functional fitness blends the art and science of training for challenge, fun, connection and longevity.

Practices for all ages and abilities, inspired by dance, martial arts, athletes, rehabilitation and creative thinking.

We aim to feel energised and ready for any hobby, sport and demands of everyday life.

We get playful with mobility.
Music and rhythm inspire us.
Partner games help us be creative.
We let ourselves have fun.

Content inspired by Fighting Monkey:

Joints articulation to build movement vocab
Coordination puzzles to move and learn with ease
Improvisation to unblock our habits, building creativity
Partner games for fun, connection and revealing blind spots
Object manipulation to promote dexterity

Weekly 90min class, 8:00am - 9:30am

Summer, Autum held in Emu Park Bowden.
Winter, Spring held under Ovingham Railway Station bridge.

About your facilitator

Dean Philp is a play provocateur and the founder of Moving Puzzles. Having played sports for nearly 40 years, he spent the last 10+ years coaching teams. Dean has learned that talent, longevity and health are driven not by skill alone, but by communication, collaboration and movement. In recent years he became a Fighting Monkey Instructor. FM is based on multi-discipline cross-motion analysis, as well as creative thinking and rehabilitation. Dean uses FM to share principles from his passions in dance, martial arts, Parkour, functional training, animal movement, tree climbing, floorwork and soft acrobatics and even circus arts. Using his concept of Moving Puzzles, Dean is inspired by playful and fun practices that are sorely missing in modern exercise institutions and competitive sports. Dean is a Parkour instructor, qualified elite sports coach, Lego Serious Play facilitator and even a published artificial intelligence researcher. He lives in Semaphore with his Partner Emily.