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I love movement and I love celebrating, thus I always strive to create movement-rich celebrations. For years, I’ve done a movement advent calendar at the end of the year as a thank you to my…
Dynamic Holidays Start Now (And Include More Joy)
A class regular came in the other day noting that all the progress she had made on a frozen shoulder had been undone by nine months of sitting inside reading. Her comments reminded me of…
Katy Bowman, Super Podcast Guest
I have done a heap of interviews in the last few years. In our efforts to support learning about movement (and to save you time searching on the internet) here is a list to…
How Do Minimal Shoes Move?
There are different features that make up a “minimal shoe” and one of those is sole flexibility. Below is a video of how I test this flexibility, but if you want to skip the video:…
30 Ways to Move More With Kids
As we were preparing for the launch of my book about why kids need so much movement (and what to do about it), I created a sheet to be downloaded and hung on the fridge…
Fix Your Downhill Knees
A couple of weeks ago our family hiked from up high in the Olympic National Park to the town below—4230 vertical feet over 8 miles (or 9.5 if you want to take the GPS’ word…
20 Books to Inspire a Long Walk
If you’ve been hanging around this website for the last 10+ years, you know walking is a huge theme here. Walking is a big part of the toolbox I use to tend to my life.…
Miles of Audiobooks
You’re here because you want to move (more, better, with less pain, etc.). You’re here to learn about movement, but I don’t want your “learning about movement time” to become more than “actual movement time”…
Activities Move Your DNA
In Grow Wild, I dig into mechanical nutrients much more deeply than in any previous book. “Mechanical nutrients” are the biochemical responses on the cellular level that come from your larger body parts moving around…
Permission To Move
In the last few years I’ve become super-interested in looking at movement as a behavior facilitated by an environment. Like all animals, we’re always responding to our environment; because so many spaces don’t tolerate movement,…
30 Books To Connect Kids (Toddlers to Teens) To Nature
Kids’ experiences with movement and nature have never been lower. That being said, a simple place to start can be reading books about kids being in nature! I’m not speaking of technical, how-to books (although…
Knee Love And A Low-Load Lunge
As explained in Chapter Six of Rethink Your Position, tight quadriceps muscles pull the kneecaps deeper into the knee joint. OUCH! These stiff bits need to release to fix the issue—you might even have been…