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Don’t Just Sit There offers a true alternative to our sedentary workplaces, giving concrete steps to becoming more healthy and more productive. —Robb Wolf, New York Times bestselling author of The Paleo Solution From Chapter…
Book Excerpt: Whole Body Barefoot
My more technical book on the feet. Can we unlock whole-body movement when our feet have been bound for decades? With over 20 exercises (for more than just the feet!), Whole Body Barefoot is a…
Book Excerpt: Move Your DNA
Bestselling and award-winning, this is our flagship book. It’s packed with exercises, science, and deep explanations of human movement—and the problems that arise when we stop moving. Side effects may include trying to make everyone…
Book Excerpt: Movement Matters
This book is different from my others; it doesn’t so much tell you how to move, only that moving more is requred, for the sake of your health, the health of your community, and the…
Alignment and Natural Human Movement
Body alignment is the study of the interrelationship between body parts, as well as between those parts and the ground and the gravitational force. Alignment science considers how particular body positions change the various loads…
Hanging and Hand Skin
I’ve written a handful (get it?) of posts on elements of hanging and swinging to support the Mouse Hands to Monkey Arms section of my book Move Your DNA. Recommended reading order is Hanging and…
Upper Body “Texture”
I’ve written a handful (get it?) of posts on elements of hanging and swinging to support the Mouse Hands to Monkey Arms section of my book Move Your DNA. Recommended reading order is Hanging and…
Movement Matters: 21 Ways To MOVE For Your Holiday Meal
Movement Matters is a book of essays that weave the seemingly unrelated threads of exercise, food, sustainability, and human rights into one rope. Then I pull (and pull and pull) on that rope, which is…
Hanging and Swinging 101
I’ve written a handful (get it?) of posts on elements of hanging and swinging to support the Mouse Hands to Monkey Arms section of my book Move Your DNA. Recommended reading order is Hanging and…
Upper Body “Terrain”
I’ve written a handful (get it?) of posts on elements of hanging and swinging to support the Mouse Hands to Monkey Arms section of my book Move Your DNA. Recommended reading order is Hanging and…
How to transition out of a mattress
This post was updated October 2018 to share my ongoing sleep-environment journey and to add a few more transitioning steps. I sleep on the floor. I didn’t always do this, I started in a bed…
Pressure-deforming Movements
I’m interested in all movements missing in a sedentary culture. This is different than classifying people as “exercisers” or “non-exercisers.” I’m looking to quantify (or at least qualify) all of the most common human movements…