MOVE YOUR DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement

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While most movement resources are geared towards how to structure a bout of exercise, we teach accessible, regenerative movement to people with all bodies and lives, including people with chronic pain or joint replacements, and postnatal women, parents and kids, laborers and office workers.

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We combine big-picture education on biomechanics, kinesiology, physiology, and natural movement; and also simple, basic exercises to wake up all your trillion body parts. She knows what she is talking about and delivers her message in a way that is easy to understand and often times funny. Check out the book for more details (get a copy here) and, if you’re really feeling it, find a Katy-trained specialist near you to help you dial it all in ( here). I am very excited to announce I have a new book, Rethink Your Position: Reshape Your Exercise, Yoga and Everyday Movement, One Part at a Time.Biomechanist Katy Bowman and her occasional co-host, Dani Alexander (an occupational therapist), explore the importance of grip strength for people of all ages. In this episode, Katy explains why this matters and gives you some fun exercises that you can do at home. There are program graduates we’ve certified in our corrective exercises all over the world who are available to work with you.

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Three quarters of the course will be on the mat, but you’ll also spend time applying good form to walking, hanging, and introducing your feet to “vitamin texture. Around the globe, people are waking up to how many of our ailments and illnesses can be attributed to our deeply sedentary habits. Katy reveals another group of very important muscles that probably are not on your list of body parts which need movement - the muscles in your face. Getting hands-on or online instruction is great and oftentimes they can connect you to other movers in your area.

The exact timing of these weekends varies, but in general the days are broken into 90-minute exercise classes interspersed with outdoor movement experiences and breaks. Ihi Heke discusses his indigenous approach to movement, including his Maori framework: our relationship with birthplace and where we live has implications for our health.

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Bowman teaches movement globally and speaks about sedentarism and movement ecology to academic and scientific audiences.Her book, the bestselling Move Your DNA, highlighted the importance of distinguishing between movement and exercise and has revolutionized the way movement is now being discussed. Athletes and exercisers, too, benefit enormously from Katy’s stepwise approach to stabilizing and strengthening the whole body for whole life goals. You can read a more technical explanation of her work in this piece from the Journal of Evolution and Health. I’ll barely scratch the surface but I’m excited to share some of my favorite Big Ideas on this important topic so let’s jump straight in! And, make sure you check out our Notes on Joan Vernikos’s Sitting Kills, Moving Heals and Michelle Segar’s No Sweat for more wisdom on this whole becoming a perpetual motion machine topic—which is my current obsession.