Move Your DNA with Katy Bowman
Katy Bowman
Although the world is becoming mostly sedentary, our bodies still require a wide variety of daily movements in order to work well. Many of us struggle to get regular exercise, but even that can fall short of nourishing the body from head to toe. How can we move more—a lot more—when we have sore, stiff parts and overly busy lifestyles?
Join Katy Bowman M.S., biomechanist, author, and movement educator as she combines big-picture lessons on biomechanics, kinesiology, physiology, and natural human movement with simple and practical solutions and exercises to get all your body parts moving better. Katy’s lighthearted and funny approach helps us all put the movement back in our lives, and the joy back in our movement!
Join Katy Bowman M.S., biomechanist, author, and movement educator as she combines big-picture lessons on biomechanics, kinesiology, physiology, and natural human movement with simple and practical solutions and exercises to get all your body parts moving better. Katy’s lighthearted and funny approach helps us all put the movement back in our lives, and the joy back in our movement!
Episodes
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Jul 5, 2016 • 47min
Ep 57 - Furniture-Free Freak Goes Mainstream
Dynamic Aging Retreat Oct 3-5 2025Katy gives us some backstage access to the Prevention magazine feature that puts her message about movement in the centerfold, as well as sharing some insights into what her everyday world is like. Oh, and there are Muggles and roosters. And watermelons.
Jun 21, 2016 • 51min
Ep 56 - Simple Steps to a Tech Break
Dynamic Aging Retreat Oct 3-5 2025Originally intended as time savers, our handheld devices have become time gobblers, and the easiest way to fritter away time is with social media. Katy and Dani discuss many ways—both macro and micro—to help you assess your relationship with your device and then shape that relationship to one that works better for the sort of life you want to live.
Jun 7, 2016 • 1h 6min
Ep 55 - An Evening with Katy & Dani in Boulder
Dynamic Aging Retreat Oct 3-5 2025Katy and Dani recorded a live-audience podcast at the historic Boulder Bookstore and share thoughts on their whirlwind day of food, fun, family and friends. We wish you could’ve been there with us, but this is the next best thing.
May 25, 2016 • 49min
Ep 54 - Sedentary Culture in the News
Dynamic Aging Retreat Oct 3-5 2025Language—and words—matter. Recent headlines in the news can lead to a murky grasp of how health and wellness are really attained, and what we’re really discussing, for that matter. We’ll talk about recent news that will hopefully prompt a deeper examination of our sedentary culture and how it is shaped by both the biggest and smallest of things.
May 17, 2016 • 12min
Ep 53 - Movement Mailbag #4
Dynamic Aging Retreat Oct 3-5 2025In this episode: walking with neuropathy pain, breathing while hanging, and tricky technical advice.
May 3, 2016 • 52min
Ep 52 - Babies and Movement, Part 2
Dynamic Aging Retreat Oct 3-5 2025Katy and Dani deliver Part 2 of the Babies and Movement episode, and isn’t it a cutie? Katy follows up on some listener questions conceived during Part 1, and then discusses breastfeeding and baby ‘exercises’. Oh, and Did you know you are probably W.E.I.R.D. ? It’s okay…we are, too.
Apr 19, 2016 • 48min
Ep 51- Babies and Movement, Part 1
Dynamic Aging Retreat Oct 3-5 2025In Part 1 of the Baby Show, Katy discusses baby biomechanics! Did you know that load and frequency affect the stages of development—like how babies from more primitive hunter/gather-type populations develop differently than our modern-lifestyle babies? We‘ll also talk about babywearing and baby carrying, and how this affects both the parent AND the baby.
Apr 12, 2016 • 45min
Ep 50 - Movement, Period.
Dynamic Aging Retreat Oct 3-5 2025This episode of Katy Says isn’t just for females! If you’re a real anatomy geek or student of human movement, this show is for you. Because if periods didn’t exist, neither would you! Learn about the movement of menstruation and the whole-body movements that affect it.
Apr 1, 2016 • 17min
Ep 49 - Special Edition Katy Says Movement Mailbag!
Dynamic Aging Retreat Oct 3-5 2025In this episode: Shoe wear, knee pain, Cheerios, muscle cars and cultural clarification
Mar 29, 2016 • 54min
Ep 48 - Dem Bones
Dynamic Aging Retreat Oct 3-5 2025What is osteoporosis? What about bone mineral density? In this episode, Katy helps us dig deeper into bone health. You’ll learn more about bone shapes, how bones are built and why your bone robusticity depends on a lot more than eating chocolate-calcium-chew-candies.
