Move Your DNA with Katy Bowman

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 the feeties off her kids' feetie pyjamas, and why she doesn't recommend flip flops, except for by the pool.

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 Moves: Hiking Awareness with Katy Bowman and Doniga Markegard in Chimacum, WA in September 2018.

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 involved in deathcare, body preparation, home funerals and burial, and Breanna Trygg of Wild Grief talks about how natural movement, and especially moving in nature, helps teens process bereavement. Plus, Katy answers listener questions on walking well after a shattered patella, and alignment during pregnancy. Don Morris: www.homefuneralpracticum.comBreanna Trygg and Wild Grief: www.wildgrief.orgInstagram: @wildgrief_olympiaFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/WildGrief/

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. Plus, we explore the idea of mobility justice with Multicultural Communities for Mobility’s Maria Sipin. And Katy answers listener questions on stretching and preparing for twenty mile walks.

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 questions on swimming as movement, and feet and shoe size.

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 transitioning away from/downsizing my social media even though I’m someone whose business seems to depend on it. 

Are you moving the way you want to be moving? In which areas of your body or life have you begun to move better, and in which areas do you still desire to move more? What changes can you make in your life, to meet your needs?Read more about turbulent flow and high intensity activity in:Alignment Matters https://nutritiousmovement.com/product/alignment-matters/and Move Your DNA  https://nutritiousmovement.com/product/move-your-dna-restore-your-health-through-natural-movement-expanded-edition/ 

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 non-person-centric approaches to health, and the idea that exercise depends on a cultural context. Dr. Heke explains what it means to be a river person, and how that has shaped how he lives. Plus, Katy answers listener questions on running, minimal shoes, and plantar fasciitis, and swimming and alignment.Dr Ihi Heke’s mobile Wananga: https://www.facebook.com/TheMobileWananga/More about Dr Ihi Heke: https://www.arawanation.com/ihi 

Katy Bowman and Ben Pobjoy on how moving your body can also move your community. @BenPobjoy on Instagram@DemocraticExercise on InstagramDemocraticExercise.comKaty’s live events: https://nutritiousmovement.pike13.com/categories/64332The vocal coach Katy mentions: http://www.sarahwhitten.com/ 

Katy Bowman and two teachers from Olympic Nature Experience talk about how to get more nature—and more wonder—into your life.Raven and Crow is from the Wilderbeats album “Live in Concert,” available at wilderbeats.com. The song is by Ashley Moffat, who now performs solo. Her website is http://ashleymoffat.com instagram.com/lilmissmoffat/The Tamarack Song is by Joyce Saunders from the Wilderbeats album “Live in Concert,” available at http://www.wilderbeats.com/home/You can also find Joyce on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/136158439755123/about/https://www.youtube.com/user/joycemilyhttps://vimeo.com/28516265Olympic Nature Experience: https://www.olympicnatureexperience.orgKaty’s live events in Canada and Europe: https://nutritiousmovement.pike13.com/categories/64332