In case you didn’t know, my birthday is March 4th. As in, March Forth! Because even my birthdate seems to say, “Get moving.” I love celebrations in general, and while writing Movement Matters I realized…
DO WE REALLY NEED CARDIO?
I’m writing about cardiovascular health, partly because February is Heart Month, but more importantly because the American Heart Association in its 2019 update notes that 48 percent of all adults in the United States have…
Caretaking And Taking Care Of Your Body
Many people are in caretaker roles right now, and that work can be difficult in ways not always anticipated. As a culture we’re starting to recognize how emotionally taxing caretaking is, and I’d add that…
Mooooooooove Your DNA
I’m always working to expand: folks’ understanding of movement (that “movement” means more than “exercise”); their practice of movement—that is, how they can get more total movement (by fitting it back into daily life, which is where…
Social Media Is Shaping Your Relationships – Podcast Episode 118
In this special edition of the Move Your DNA Podcast, Katy Bowman writes a Dear John letter to social media—and revisits her past social media breaks, with lots of advice for your own time-out, if…
Grow Your Own Movement
I want to begin this article, which is about getting exercise in the garden, by stressing that the idea of getting fit in the garden needs to take a back seat to the ideas fashioned…