Build Your Movement-Rich Life - Nutritious Movement

Expanding Your Movement with Nature & Community

At Nutritious Movement, our broader mission is pretty basic: We teach movement.

It’s the details that get more complicated. The first thing you need in order to move more is to move your own body, and your own body parts, more. So we have a ton of exercise instruction here.

But movement between one’s own feet and fingertips isn’t the body’s full movement potential. There are some movements you can only get from certain environments—meaning both where you’re moving and who you’re moving with. That’s why, to help you move as much as you can, a full movement program needs to include nature and community.

Just like prairie grasses, wolves, birds, and mice all keep each other in check, your movement keeps someone else moving, or prevents them from moving. Your movement dictates how much stuff you consume. Your movement is part of an ecological system.

Movement Matters

Your Guide to Movement Ecology

This book of essays is our best reference and resource for expanding your ideas of natural movement. It explores why we need to think of our movement not as an isolated event confined to our own body, but as a vital part of the world’s health—our community in the largest sense.

Order It Here

Vitamin Community

Get Emails, Get Moving!

Start your “movement-as-a-lifestyle” today when you sign up for our emails. These are packed with moves, news, and tools to build your own movement community, like book club questions and movement challenges. You can look forward to education, information, support, events, discounts and more! Sign up now and receive a one-time 10% off discount code, good on any order

Sign Me Up!

Explore Movement Ecology on Instagram

In efforts to spend less time online, we’re using a single social media platform. If you’re already on Instagram, follow Nutritious Movement so you can contribute to our initiatives!

No account? You can still follow along here.

This log was calling me to climb aboard and my rig

New podcast episode! Movement is nuanced and it’

Community! Let's take a moment during National Foo

April is National Foot Health Awareness month, and $April is National Foot Health Awareness month, and I’m here (yes, again) to remind you that moves that help you be able to reach your feet are “healthy foot” exercises. Here’s a bit from p. 132 of my book “Dynamic Aging” to go with this image from the book: “The shoes you choose to wear could be increasing your risk of falling. In one study researchers found that the footwear most often worn at the time of a fall-related hip fracture were shoes that didn’t attach properly to the foot, like slippers or slip-ons (Sherrington and Menz 2003). Slip-on footwear often appeals to goldeners because it takes less effort (read: I don’t have to bend over) to get them on. If you’re having trouble reaching down to put on or tie up footwear, try this exercise. Lie on your back and, maintaining a relaxed breath, bring one knee toward your chest. Can you reach your foot with one hand? Can you grab that foot with both hands at the same time? Can you hold your foot as you try to straighten that knee? Try the other side. Work up to being able to hold each foot in both hands in this position for one minute, using a strap at first if necessary. Having enough mobility to reach our feet is crucial. This not only prevents the progression to slide-on-only footwear, but also enables other aspects of foot care, like toenail maintenance, splinter removal, and callus care—all extremely important for all of us, including goldeners.” We have a serious foot pain, poor foot health problem in this and many other countries which is why there’s a foot health awareness month and why I keep writing stuff like this. The mobility of your hips, knees, and lower back matters, in this case, to your feet. P.S. Slide-on shoes are NOT minimal footwear, even if they're thin and flexible, because the upper is not attached. Therefore, they’re not "minimally" impacting your gait—you have to do a lot of toe-clenching to hold them on. #moveyourdna #dynamicaging #alignmentmatters #foothealth #minimalfootwear #wholebodybarefoot$

Calling all movement and book nerds in southern Ca

Years ago I posted this photo, likening wearing st

Some of our Instagram community’s favorite inspirational hashtags are listed here. Click on each to find numerous examples of how others are working more movement, nature, and community into their lives—think of them as giving you access to hundreds of teachers. Hashtag your own posts too; everyone is an expert on their own life and we want to see how you’re putting more movement into yours. You become the teacher to others when you share your personal solutions.

Spend a Day in a Movement-Rich Life

Want to see the principle of movement ecology in action? Check out our Day in the Life page, showing how ordinary people have figured out how to add movements that are available to most of us back into the flow of day-to-day life. This is your inspiration station!

Explore Day in the Life

Move Your DNA Podcast

The Move Your DNA podcast is another dynamic, community-building resource. Full of tips for moving more and better, it also includes recent interviews with those who are using their own movements to serve their communities—sometimes without even realizing it! Listen or read using an option below:

Archived & Transcribed Shows

iTunes

Spotify

Notes From The Blog

Read through blog archives, find podcast transcripts, and stay connected with Katy’s current thoughts on movement, science, and more.

Explore Notes

Live Events & Instruction

Is there anything better than walking into a room full of people who all care about the same things you do? Talk about community! That’s what our live events are like—people getting a chance to move with people of different abilities in a supportive, instructive environment.

Find them here