Move Your DNA with Katy Bowman

By Katy Bowman

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Noted biomechanist Katy Bowman's podcast takes on health, alignment and how to Move Your DNA in order to deal with the mechanical causes of ailments and poor health.

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Episode 125: Grow Wild

02.23.2021

In this show, biomechanist and author, Katy Bowman introduces her new book on kid and family movement, Grow Wild, with some publishing industry dialogue on what makes a coffee table book. She also answers an important gait question while on ...

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02.23.2021 Episode 125: Grow Wild In this show, biomechanist and author, Katy Bowman introduces her new book on kid and family movement, Grow Wild, with some publishing industry dialogue on what makes a coffee table book. She also answers an important gait question while on ...
10.26.2020 Episode 124: Your Questions About Walking This program covers a lot—heel strike and hip strength, footwear to anatomy. A great listen for laypersons and professionals alike! Find episode transcript and links under PODCAST TRANSCRIPTS at NutritiousMovement.com.
05.26.2020 Episode 123: Gardening Movement We're used to thinking we need to exercise off our food, but what if we thought differently -- that food was where movement comes from? Did you know you can grow your own movement? Are COVID gardens a thing? Katy ...
04.15.2020 Episode 122: Breathing Shapes On today’s show, biomechanist and author, Katy Bowman talks about a movement on the minds of many folks, and that is breathing. If you haven’t listened to Episode 121: Move Your Breathing Parts Better, or if you haven’t read the ...
04.15.2020 Episode 121: Move Your Breathing Parts Better In this episode of Move Your DNA, biomechanist and author Katy Bowman starts off with a lesson on breathing mechanics. Then she walks you through some exercises.
03.10.2020 Episode 120: How (and Why) I Walked 440 Miles for My 44th Birthday In this special edition of the Move Your DNA podcast, Katy Bowman reads through her recent blog post, How & Why I Walked 440 Miles for My 44th Birthday. She invites you to grab your walking shoes and follow along!
07.23.2019 Episode 119: Taking Bone Mechanics by the Horns Get ready for a deep dive on scientific studies and how to read and understand them. This episode of Move Your DNA will accompany you through a five-mile walk at a 3mph pace, and along the way, you’ll hear biomechanist ...
06.25.2019 Episode 118: Social Media is Shaping Your Relationships In this special edition of the Move Your DNA podcast, Katy Bowman writes a Dear John letter to social media—and revisits her past social media breaks, with lots of advice for your own time-out, if you’re planning one.
12.18.2018 Episode 117: How Did You Move in 2018? In her annual end-of-year “how did we move” podcast Katy Bowman hosts myriad guests to share their stories as a way to celebrates more than three million downloads of Move Your DNA. We’re talking health goals at this party—what were ...
12.04.2018 Episode 116: Taking a Breath(er) Katy Bowman answers every question she’s ever received on how to breathe. Plus, she issues an invitation to a PODCAST PARTY—one that’s focused on health and movement, and that celebrates THREE MILLION DOWNLOADS! Plus, Pack Matthews of Soul Seat drops ...
11.20.2018 Epiosde 115: Ancestral Actions with Arthur Haines Katy and Arthur Haines talk about re-wilding, and ancestral actions that have largely fallen by the wayside in a sedentary culture, with tips you can use right now to revive some for your health and fitness. Plus, Katy answers a ...
11.06.2018 Episode 114: Taking Action in the Garden with Rose Hayden-Smith Gardening is more than just a fun pastime. In this episode, Katy Bowman and Rose Hayden-Smith talk about historical victory gardens circa World War II and what they still have to teach us. Rose provides three tips to those who ...
10.23.2018 Episode 113: Long distance actions with Dami Roelse Lose Your Age on the Trail author Dami Roelse drops by to talk long distance walking and how to prepare for it. Katy reminds listeners that long distance is a relative term—three miles might be your version of long distance ...
10.09.2018 Episode 112: Healthy Hips in Action with Jill Miller Katy Bowman and Jill Miller (The Roll Model®, Yoga Tune Up®) talk about hips and how to keep them healthy. Katy and Jill share tons of tips and moves for those with hip pain, and for those who want to ...
09.25.2018 Episode 111: Kids in Action with Angela Hanscom It's not just adults who need to move their DNA, kids do too. Katy Bowman welcomes Timbernook's Angela Hanscom to the podcast to talk about what parents can do right now to help kids also have a movement-rich life—and why ...
09.11.2018 Episode 110: Sleep Action with Shawn Stevenson Sleep expert Shawn Stevenson helps kick off a new season of Move Your DNA with Katy Bowman, delivering three great tips you can use to improve your sleep life. Katy offers three tips of her own for better sleep. And ...
08.28.2018 Episode 109: Alignment Matters: Words Matter Words Matter: In which Katy Bowman reads three more of the essays that appear in Alignment Matters— Science of Wellness, Immunity Boost, and Correcting Anatomy Misconceptions. Through these three essays, Katy examines why definitions matter—and how tough it is to ...
08.14.2018 Episode 108: Alignment Matters: Change Your Mind, Change Your Joints Katy Bowman reads three more essays from her book Alignment Matters: Your Position in Life, Varus and Valgus, and Hidden Doubts, and riffs on the connections among them. Essentially, change your mind, and your body will follow. Plus, get a ...
07.31.2018 Episode 107: Alignment Matters: Movement Motivation With three essays from her book Alignment Matters, Katy Bowman delivers some movement motivation that’s as close as the floor, as thrilling to reach for as a mountain top, and as incrementally awesome as a walk with a bunch of ...
07.17.2018 Episode 106: Alignment Matters: Your Feet Through the Years Katy reads three of her favorite essays from Alignment Matters on feet and foot health, and offers a State of the Minimal Shoe Union address, with lots of tips for transitioning well to minimal shoes. Find out why she cut ...
07.03.2018 Episode 105: Things That Swing Find out what boobs, balls, and arms have in common. In the first of this special summer series, Katy Bowman reads three of her favorite essays from her book Alignment Matters, and notes the connections among them. Plus! Announcing Wilderness ...
06.19.2018 Episode 104: Death Moves Katy Bowman and guests talk about the ways in which movement can be an intrinsic part of grieving, and how we could look at our experience of grief as grief in a sedentary culture. Don Morris talks about the movements ...
06.05.2018 Episode 103: The city moves you We talk a lot about walkability on this podcast, but what does it really mean? And how does urban design and the built environment shape the way we move, or don’t? Katy Bowman talks walkability with urban planner Samantha Thomas. ...
05.22.2018 Episode 102: Being on the land Katy Bowman and Philip Brass, who is a member of the Peepeekisis First Nation in the Treaty Four Territory of Canada, discuss Indigenous food sovereignty, and how moving for food can be the spine of culture. Plus, Katy answers listener ...
05.08.2018 Episode 101: Social Media is (STILL) Shaping Your Body Hi friends. It’s me, Katy. I am ready for—in the process of, really—a social media prune. Many of you are picking up what I’m putting down on line and I wanted to talk to you about why and how I’m ...
04.24.2018 Episode 100: The Ultimate Movement Expert In which Katy Bowman answers listener questions about high-intensity exercise and turbulent flow, and about breathing while moving. Plus, Katy and a mystery guest take a long walk together and ponder questions about how we're moving.
04.10.2018 Episode 99: Your Environment Moves You Katy Bowman and Dr. Ihi Heke talk about movement and indigenous approaches to health, including Heke's Maori framework--that our relationship with where we’re born and where we live has implications for our health. This wide-ranging and fascinating conversation also explores ...
03.27.2018 Episode 98: Walking the talk Katy Bowman and Ben Pobjoy on how moving your body can also move your community.
03.13.2018 Episode 97: NATURE SCHOOL MOVES Katy Bowman and two teachers from Olympic Nature Experience talk about how to get more nature—and more wonder—into your life.
02.27.2018 Episode 96: Birth and the Shapeshifting Pelvis Katy Bowman and Gail Tully on why a baby moving through a pelvis has almost nothing in common with a couch moving through a stairwell, a watermelon moving through a nostril, or a basketball moving through a hoop. Find more ...
02.13.2018 Episode 95: The Maple Syrup Workout Wild food forager Sam Thayer talks with Katy Bowman about how he began foraging out of necessity, but now his body craves the nutrition—and nutritious movement—he only gets from foraging. Plus, he runs us through the physical work involved in ...
01.30.2018 Episode 94: WILDERNESS MOVES Katy Bowman and Doniga Markegard, author of Dawn Again, talk wilderness, movement, and moving in and with nature.
01.16.2018 Episode 93: The expedition within each of us Katy Bowman interviews Jason Lewis, author of The Expedition Trilogy, about his self- powered circumnavigation of the globe, and how each of us has our own expedition within us—an expedition made of a series of small steps, no matter what ...
01.02.2018 Episode 92: REFLECT on 2017 before you RESOLVE in 2018. It’s that time of the year again: Your Health and Movement Year-end Review! Join Katy and a special guest as they look back on their movement and health goals of 2017 and then look forward to just how great 2018 ...
11.21.2017 Episode 91: Between the Lines 11 - You do know squat! In which Katy Bowman tells Stephanie Domet that honestly, she’s not surprised she had a felt advent calendar instead of one with chocolates. KB’s instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nutritiousmovement/
11.07.2017 Episode 90: Between the Lines 10 - Movements matter...even the ones in public bathrooms In which Katy Bowman tells Stephanie Domet how a chance encounter with a copy of USA Today in a Whole Foods bathroom changed her understanding of movement, and why it matters.
10.24.2017 Episode 89: Between the Lines 9 - Movement Matters…and it matters so much, we’re devoting the next couple episodes to it! In which Katy Bowman tells Stephanie Domet that it’s only natural that movement and nature should be intrinsically bound.
10.10.2017 Episode 88: Between the Lines 8 - Calf Stretch In which Katy Bowman tells Stephanie Domet why Calf Stretch appears in just about every book she’s ever written.
09.26.2017 Episode 87: Between the Lines 7 - Diastasis Recti…it’s for anyone who has a torso! In which Katy Bowman tells Stephanie Domet why Diastasis Recti is the perfect title for this book, despite what some contest judges may think.
09.12.2017 Episode 86: Between the Lines - Don’t Just Sit There…but don’t just stand there, either. Katy Bowman tells Stephanie Domet that the way we work now is probably killing us, and we might want to maybe move a little.
08.29.2017 Episode 85: Between the Lines - It Starts With Feet Katy Bowman tells Stephanie Domet why she’s written two books about feet, and why she could easily write a bunch more.
08.15.2017 Episode 84: Between the Lines - Stay Golden Katy Bowman tells Stephanie Domet about Dynamic Aging, the sassy septuagenarians with whom she wrote it, and why it’s really a book for anyone who has a body.
08.01.2017 Episode 83: Under Pressure Calluses. Most of us have them, but do you really know why they are? Katy makes this mailbag a one-question-only show by peeling some research down to the layers that answer the question, giving us some valuable insight which is ...
07.18.2017 Episode 82: Between the Lines, And That's What Move Your DNA is All About! Stephanie Domet leads Katy Bowman into a deep discuss of Katy's book Move Your DNA.
07.04.2017 Episode 81: Between the Lines - Alignment Matters, and so does Movement Alignment Matters and Movement Matters, in which Katy Bowman tells Stephanie Domet why most of her readers lean either Alignment Matters or Movement Matters, what Nietzsche has to do with it, and leaves us with a move to chew on.
06.27.2017 Episode 80: Social Media is Shaping Your Body Today is a bonus episode as Katy prepares to take a social media break. She will be talking to you about why and how to transition away from social media, even if you are, like her, someone whose business seems ...
06.20.2017 Episode 79: Between the Lines, Part One Stephanie Domet asks Katy Bowman why she writes books, why she writes so MANY books, and why she wants to spend some podcast time talking about them. Plus, a special lightning round word association quiz!
06.13.2017 Episode 78: We Got Your Back We set things straight in this episode, shouldering your back-related mailbag questions in an effort to help you understand how the state of your back is really shaped by every other body part attached to it.
05.30.2017 Episode 77: Breastfeeding Ecology, Part 2 We’re going to take another step back, and look at breastfeeding from an ecological standpoint. Breastfeeding isn’t one single behavior, but a category of behaviors that is happening in the context of all your habits and your environment. Katy answers ...
05.16.2017 Episode 76: The Sleep Show Sleep: we do it for a third of our lifetimes but it is still a mystery to many. In this special edition of our Movement Mailbag, Katy answers the questions that have been keeping you up at night as you ...

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