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…
A Different Kind of Activity Tracker – Podcast Episode #126
There are activity trackers that measure your steps, mileage, or jolts of your entire body, but is this good enough? Biomechanist Katy Bowman weighs in on a new non-digital, non-analog activity tracker—a chart!—that helps you…
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,…
About Grow Wild – Podcast Episode #125
In this show, biomechanist and author, Katy Bowman introduces her new book on kid and family movement, Grow Wild, with some publishing industry dialogue on what makes a coffee table book. Katy also answers an important…
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…