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Katy Bowman

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Katy Bowman, M.S.

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Self Help, Nonfiction

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Bestselling author, speaker, and a leader of the Movement movement, biomechanist Katy Bowman, M.S. is changing the way we move and think about our need for movement. Her ten books, including the groundbreaking Move Your DNA, have been translated into more than 16 languages worldwide.
Bowman is the creator and host of the "Move Your DNA" podcast, teaches movement globally, and speaks about sedentarism and movement ecology to academic and scientific audiences such as the Ancestral Health Summit and the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. Her work has been featured in such diverse media as the Today Show, CBC Radio One, the Seattle Times, NPR, the Joe Rogan Experience, and Good Housekeeping.
One of Maria Shriver’s “Architects of Change” a ...more

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Katy Bowman's Blog

Why Does My Lower Back Hurt When I Lie Down?

Six years ago a research paper featured self-reported injuries associated with yoga poses, and one of them was savasana. I posted about it on social media and the responses were full of people saying stuff like “YES! This is me! Why does lying supine hurt my spine?”

How can lying flat on the floor hurt your back? Here’s the deal: Many of us are not actually lying flat when we lie down.

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Katy Bowman’s books

Average rating: 4.28 · 8,850 ratings · 1,098 reviews · 28 distinct works • Similar authors

	Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement 4.34 avg rating — 3,106 ratings — published 2014 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whole Body Barefoot: Transitioning Well to Minimal Footwear 4.28 avg rating — 1,075 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Simple Steps to Foot Pain Relief: The New Science of Healthy Feet 4.23 avg rating — 930 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Movement Matters: Essays on Movement Science, Movement Ecology, and the Nature of Movement 4.28 avg rating — 858 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grow Wild: The Whole-child, Whole-family, Nature-rich Guide to Moving More 4.31 avg rating — 696 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diastasis Recti: The Whole Body Solution to Abdominal Weakness and Separation 4.33 avg rating — 529 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dynamic Aging: Simple Exercises for Whole-Body Mobility 4.13 avg rating — 534 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alignment Matters: The First Five Years of Katy Says 4.30 avg rating — 512 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rethink Your Position: Reshape Your Exercise, Yoga, and Everyday Movement, One Part at a Time 4.25 avg rating — 294 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Don't Just Sit There 4.23 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Watch your habits, for they become your posture. Watch your posture, for it creates your boundaries. Watch your boundaries, for they restrict your growth. Watch your restrictions, for they create immobility. Watch your immobility, for it becomes your illness.”
― Katy Bowman, Alignment Matters: The First Five Years of Katy Says

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“The paradox of the modern world is this: Not only do we do less, physically, than ever before, but we also almost never do nothing. Our bodies, deprived of large movements, are inundated with subtle-yet-continuous physical stimulation from noise, light, data, etc. This constant stream of input is a two-fold stressor, as not only is the frequency of certain environmentally induced loads extremely high, the types of input we are experiencing are unnatural.”
― Katy Bowman, Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement

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“Our current model sets both food and movement as a negative. Eating food (a biological imperative) makes us feel guilty, and we turn movement (also a biological imperative) into punishment. Atonement”
― Katy Bowman, Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement

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