Change the Way You Think About Movement

Your Brain on Movement

November is Alzheimer’s Awareness month. In 2017 I sat on the panel of a Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement event in California hosted by the organization’s founder, Maria Shriver. One big takeaway from all experts was the…

Your Core Classes (Five Core Exercises)

Do you struggle to understand “the core”? Have you read Diastasis Recti but want to see the moves broken down on video? For starters, we at Nutritious Movement define the core not as the abdominals, but…

Mooooooooove Your DNA

I’m always working to expand: folks’ understanding of movement (that “movement” means more than “exercise”); their practice of movement—that is, how they can get more total movement (by fitting it back into daily life, which is where…

A Kid Explains Minimal Shoes

Explanations of the various ways shoes affect loads to the body and why one might want to consider minimal footwear can quickly become wordy and jargon-rich. If you’re wanting a simple way to explain “why…

How Long do Minimal Shoes Last?

I’m just a regular person with a regular body, and sometimes things start hurting on my body—in this case, my left ankle. I never had any ankle issues until about 10 miles into my first…

My Books Get Around (The World)

Movement is for every body, not only English-speaking ones. So thank goodness for foreign rights agents, translators, international publishers, and all the other folks who make translations possible! My books have been translated more than…

Your Gear Guide to Going Furniture Free

I’ve written about and done many interviews on how I’ve shaped my home for more movement and greater physical resilience. You can read about the whys and hows of it, as well as those interviews,…

Psoasana Until You Can Savasana

Savasana (also known as “corpse pose”) is often labeled one of the most challenging yoga poses, the idea being that chilling out can be difficult for so many of us—it’s not easy to relax and…

Adjust Your Swimming Alignment

Most of the time I am inspired to teach movement while actually moving. As a water baby, I seek swim time all year long. But where I get the most swim time—think hours—on our family…

Grow Your Own Movement

I want to begin this article, which is about getting exercise in the garden, by stressing that the idea of getting fit in the garden needs to take a back seat to the ideas fashioned…

Spring Cleaning Your Body

I just did an interview this week, and one of the questions was about the possible overlap between Marie Kondo’s philosophy behind her book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and my approach to furniture-free…