I am very excited to announce I have a new book, Rethink Your Position: Reshape Your Exercise, Yoga and Everyday Movement, One Part at a Time. As our sedentary culture progresses toward even less movement,…
Alignment Matters: Change Your Mind, Change Your Joints – Podcast Episode #108
Katy Bowman reads three more essays from her book Alignment Matters: Your Position in Life, Varus and Valgus, and Hidden Doubts, and riffs on the connections among them. Essentially, change your mind, and your body…
Alignment is not Posture.
“It has been believed, at least since the time of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), that mechanical factors strongly influence biological form and function. Indeed, the general concept that mechanics influence biology was articulated clearly over a…
Be a Biomechanic!
This post from 2011 was edited, updated, and expanded in 2020. This is one of a handful of our favorite articles on walking, including topics covering what various “walking parts” do as well as other…
Seeing the Signs.
Today, walking about town I was struck at the notion that someday, future populations are going to be making large assumptions about us just as we make large assumptions about populations past. These assumptions are…