Episode 117: How Did You Move in 2018?
In her annual end-of-year “how did we move” podcast Katy Bowman hosts myriad guests to share their stories as a way to celebrates more than three million downloads of Move Your DNA. We’re talking...
View ArticleEpisode 118: Social Media is Shaping Your Relationships
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...
View ArticleEpisode 119: Taking Bone Mechanics by the Horns
Get ready for a deep dive on scientific studies and how to read and understand them. This episode of Move Your DNA will accompany you through a five-mile walk at a 3mph pace, and along the way, you’ll...
View ArticleEp 120: How (and Why) I Walked 440 Miles for My 44th Birthday
In this episode of the Move Your DNA podcast, Katy Bowman reads through her recent blog post, How & Why I Walked 440 Miles for My 44th Birthday. She invites you to grab your walking shoes and...
View ArticleEp 121: Move Your Breathing Parts Better
In this episode of Move Your DNA, biomechanist and author Katy Bowman starts off with a lesson on breathing mechanics. Then she walks you through some exercises that you can do as you listen.If you...
View ArticleEp 122: Breathing Shapes
On today’s show, biomechanist and author, Katy Bowman talks about a movement on the minds of many folks, and that is breathing. If you haven’t listened to Episode 121: Move Your Breathing Parts Better,...
View ArticleEp 123: Gardening Movement
We're used to thinking we need to exercise off our food, but what if we thought differently -- that food was where movement comes from? Did you know you can grow your own movement? Are COVID gardens a...
View ArticleEp 124: Your Questions About Walking
We received so many questions during “Gait Week” on our social media channels, Katy decided to answer a bunch of them in one show.This program covers a lot—heel strike and hip strength, footwear to...
View ArticleEp 125: Introducing Grow Wild
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...
View ArticleEp 126: A Different Kind of Activity Tracker
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...
View ArticleBonus: State of the Kate-y
OVERVIEW00:03:10 - Grow Wild, Podcast guest staring 00:04:40 - Exercise Advent and more00:05:40 - Three Ways to Move Your DNA 00:10:50 - What’s Ahead on the Podcast frontFind all of Katy's audiobooks...
View ArticleEp 127: Thoughts on Walking While Walking with Friends
Katy loves walking in groups. Both small and large groups, because she gets to know people. There are very few interruptions during a long walk and fewer transitions. You’re on a walk, all day, and...
View ArticleEp 128: Sedentary Culture/Active Nature
Right now, “sedentary culture” is part of the broader and overarching culture. But subcultures—including our individual culture—can also be sedentary. These sedentary subcultures end up reinforcing the...
View ArticleEp 129: 10 Ways to Get Kids Walking More, from Toddlers to Tweens
Katy is sharing a portion of this live talk that she recorded on Orcas Island so more of you could benefit from straightforward and joyful tips to get kids on the move. Many of these tips were...
View ArticleEp 130: It's Both What You Walk IN And What You Walk ON
In this episode, Katy shares an old blog post from her first long trail walk in minimalist shoes (back in 2008) as an example of how we need to pay attention to what we wear on our feet as well as what...
View ArticleEp 131: The Authors of Dynamic Aging, 5 Years Later
Most of what we want to do in life uses our body as a tool, and many don’t realize how to maintain the tool of our physicality. But it’s possible, by investing a little time, to maintain your body...
View ArticleEp 132: How Movement Fits into Intentional Aging
For some context, this was how Katy's talk was written up by the presenters at the library: Biomechanist, author, and movement expert, Katy Bowman, M.S., will provide an engaging and interactive...
View ArticleEp 133: How to Get Your People to Move More
Diana Hill, Ph.D. is a modern psychologist, mother, and co-author of ACT Daily Journal: Get unstuck and live fully with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. She is the host of the podcast show Your Life...
View ArticleEp 134: Are You a Healthy Deviant?
The definition of health is tricky but hopefully can agree on many elements of what it looks and feels like. On that note, in this episode, Katy and Pilar talk about why health is becoming more and...
View ArticleEp 135: Sleep MOVEZzzzz
Katy and a special guest (her husband) outline some furniture-free lifestyle steps to transitioning your body to less supportive sleep surfaces and also how to get more sleeping movements without going...
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