Sleep expert Shawn Stevenson helps kick off a new season of Move Your DNA with Katy Bowman, delivering three great tips you can use to improve your sleep life. Katy offers three tips of her own for better sleep. And Tricia Salcido of Dynamic Collective member Soft Star Shoes shares a little of the minimal shoe company’s history and current mission. OVERVIEW 00:02:44 – Reader question – Where to live for a…
Find out what boobs, balls, and arms have in common. In the first of this special summer series, Katy Bowman reads three of her favorite essays from her book Alignment Matters, and notes the connections among them. Plus! Announcing Wilderness Moves: Hiking Awareness with Katy Bowman and Doniga Markegard in Chimacum, WA in September 2018. OVERVIEW 00:03:53 – Alignment Matters Essay #1 – Boobs – Jump to section 00:07:13 – Alignment Matters…
In which Katy Bowman tells Stephanie Domet why Calf Stretch appears in just about every book she’s ever written. OVERVIEW 01:16:00 – Let’s Talk About the Calf Stretch Jump to section 02:01 – Calf Stretching without stretching your calves? Jump to section 04:52 – Why is Calf Stretching important Jump to section 08:10 – It’s like whiplash Jump to section 11:47 – It’s not range of motion for its own sake Jump…
We set things straight in this episode, shouldering your back-related mailbag questions in an effort to help you understand how the state of your back is really shaped by every other body part attached to it. KATY: I hear hundreds of toilet papers being plopped on the toilet seat behind them. DANI: Oh! Ha! You’re the worst! KATY: I … yeah. DANI: Welcome to the Katy Says podcast where…
I almost didn’t get this post done because I was busy banging my head on the wall. Well done, “Health” Magazine, well done. You’ve managed to fill a column with a mis-leading piece that (gasp!) could do a lot of people harm. If you’re reading this, stand up and then lean way back like you’re trying to do a back-bend while still standing. Did you feel your “abs and back muscles” work…
If you’re interested in reading more on ideas presented in the article below, I suggest reading Alignment Matters. If you’d like movement instruction via video, start with Science of Psoas. I’m back from three weeks on the road and boy is my iliopsoas muscle killing me. Just kidding. There is no illiopsoas muscle. So why did we start calling two different muscles, that happen to share an attachment, by one name? I’ve…