
About this episode
We know that as a society we are living an increasingly sedentary lifestyle and children have never moved as little as they do today. That’s why people like Katy Bowman, author of Move your DNA and now her latest book Grow Wild, are so important in helping us to recognise why we need to move more. Katy joins us today from the US to chat to us about movement and to give us some simple actionable changes that aim to combat our super sedentary culture.
👉 Katy shares
- Her inspiration for writing a book focused on family movement
- What ‘stacking’ is
- Her background and why movement is so important to her
- The seven containers or environments we live in
- That not all nutrients come from food and that there are other ways to nourish our bodies
- How explicit and implicit rules for movement are sending messages to our children
- How we can move from a sedentary culture to a dynamic one
- The benefits of being barefoot
- About Elimination Communication
- Ideas for implement flexible seating in an educational environment
- Simple changes we can make at home to encourage a greater range of movement
- Why we need to move the upper part of our bodies
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Bestselling author, speaker, and a leader in the Movement movement, biomechanist Katy Bowman has been changing the way we move and think about our need for movement. She has authored nine books, including the groundbreaking “Move Your DNA” and her newest, “Grow Wild." Bowman teaches movement globally and speaks about sedentarism and movement ecology to academic and scientific audiences. One of Maria Shriver’s “Architects of Change” and an America Walks “Woman of the Walking Movement”, Katy has worked with companies like Patagonia, Nike and Google as well as a wide range of non-profits and other communities. Her movement education company, Nutritious Movement, is based in Washington State.
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