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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Mar 15, 2016 • 49min
Ep 47 - Food Forces
Dynamic Aging Retreat Oct 3-5 2025Sure, you guzzle lots of kale smoothies and there are no GMOs in your salad. But have you thought about the mechanical nutrition in your diet? In this episode, Katy cooks up a nice batch of food for thought that explains how the food forces in your life affect your whole body ecology.
Mar 8, 2016 • 16min
Ep 46 - Katy Says Movement Mailbag #3
Dynamic Aging Retreat Oct 3-5 2025In this episode: Cracked heels, scoliosis, tailbone pain and arthritic feet
Mar 1, 2016 • 1h 2min
Ep 45 - Natural Movement and Eyes
Dynamic Aging Retreat Oct 3-5 2025You move your body, and your body is moved by your environment. The eyes are no exception. This episode focuses on two of your most important sensory input organs and how the way you use them has shaped the way they work.
Feb 16, 2016 • 45min
Ep 44 - The Skinny on Fat
Dynamic Aging Retreat Oct 3-5 2025Katy spends some time helping reframe “fat” as we discuss fat and the roles it plays in our bodies, and how the fat we have is simply a response to input—just like everything else in our body.
Feb 9, 2016 • 25min
Ep 43 - Katy Says Movement Mailbag
Dynamic Aging Retreat Oct 3-5 2025In this episode: Squatting, Transitioning to Furniture-Free, & Inspiring Older Kids to Move Outside
Feb 2, 2016 • 57min
Ep 42 - Cardio & Natural Movement
Dynamic Aging Retreat Oct 3-5 2025How well is your body responding to your bouts of cardio exercise? Katy defines what we’re talking about when we refer to “cardio”, and then finds it a place in the bigger picture of natural movement.
Jan 19, 2016 • 32min
Ep 41 - 5 Ways to Move You Closer to Better Health
Dynamic Aging Retreat Oct 3-5 2025Health isn’t just about the numbers, and there are many signs of success when it comes to moving you toward a healthier lifestyle. Katy suggests 5 health goals that have little to do with the scale but a lot to do with your overall health. Make 2016 a year of Moving Your DNA!
Jan 12, 2016 • 20min
Ep 40 - Katy Says Movement Mailbag
Dynamic Aging Retreat Oct 3-5 2025In this episode: leg length discrepancies, diastasis recti limitations and squats and pelvic floor health alternatives for a wheelchair-bound listener.
Jan 5, 2016 • 46min
Ep 39 - Stack Your Life for More Natural Movement
Dynamic Aging Retreat Oct 3-5 2025We are all given the same 24 hours but it always seems like it takes a trade-off to fit certain things in to that day. If you want to work out, does it mean you’ve got to drop your kids at the gym’s childcare? Or, you can spend time with your kids, playing Candyland for 2 hours, but will you then have time to fix a whole food meal? Learn how to stack all the things that matter to you so that you can move more and stress less.
Dec 29, 2015 • 47min
Ep 38 - How Did You Move in 2015?
Dynamic Aging Retreat Oct 3-5 2025Resolutions are only about what you hope to accomplish, but a health recap lets you look both forward and back in order to more clearly define your goals for the coming year and to give yourself some kudos about all that you did in the past year. Join Katy and Dani as we do our own 2015 Health Recap and invite you to join in with your own.
