Movement Matters: Essays on Movement Science, Movement Ecology, and the Nature of Movement

Movement Matters: Essays on Movement Science, Movement Ecology, and the Nature of Movement

by Katy Bowman
Movement Matters: Essays on Movement Science, Movement Ecology, and the Nature of Movement

Movement Matters: Essays on Movement Science, Movement Ecology, and the Nature of Movement

by Katy Bowman

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Overview

What if we can make ourselves, our communities, and our planet healthier all at the same time by moving our bodies more?

Movement Matters is a collection of essays in which biomechanist Katy Bowman continues her groundbreaking investigation of the mechanics of our sedentary culture and the profound potential of human movement. Here she widens her You are how you move message and invites us to consider our personal relationship with sedentarism, privilege, and nature. Bowman explores:

* how convenience often means less movement, not more time

* the missing movement nutrients in our food

* how to include more nature in education

* the impact of adding movement to permaculture and ecological models

* Your need for vitamin Community and group movement

Unapologetically direct, often hilarious, and always compassionate, Movement Mattersdemonstrates that human movement is powerful and important, and that living a movement-filled life is perhaps the most joyful and efficient way to transform your body, community, and world.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781943370047
Publisher: Propriometrics Press
Publication date: 11/30/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Part biomechanist, part science communicator, and full-time mover, Katy Bowman has educated hundreds of thousands of people on the role movement plays in the body and in the world. Blending a scientific approach with straight talk about sensible, whole-life movement solutions, her website and award-winning podcast, Katy Says, reach hundreds of thousands of people every month, and thousands have taken her live classes.

Her books, the bestselling Move Your DNA, Movement Matters, Simple Steps to Foot Pain Relief, Diastasis Recti, Don t Just Sit There, Whole Body Barefoot, Alignment Matters, and Every Woman s Guide to Foot Pain Relief , have been critically acclaimed and translated worldwide.

Passionate about human movement outside of exercise, Katy volunteers her time to support the larger reintegration of movement into human lives by providing movement courses across widely varying demographics and working with non-profits promoting nature education. She also directs and teaches at the Nutritious MovementTM Center Northwest in Washington state, travels the globe to teach Nutritious Movement courses in person, and spends as much time outside as possible with her husband and children.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Movement: Outsourced


Science Moves

Muscle: A Simple Model

Expand Your Muscle Model

You’re More Than (Two of) Your Parts

Proof

Putting All Your Eggs in One Comment Basket

Don’t Be a Stupid

Sometimes Science Is Sedentary

Dear Katy


Nature Moves

Analogous

Thigmomorphogenesis

Shaped by the Trees

First Hike

Tree Bones

A Matter of Perspective

Wet Bones

Myopic

You Speak How You Are

Outdoor School

Dear Katy


Food Moves

Must Work for Food

Those Other Nutrients

Mammals Suck

Forage

Kitchen Movement

A Sedentary Culture Eats

Movement as a Commodity

Dear Katy


Just Move

Part-Minded

Stack Your Life

Maximalism

Nutrient Dense

Geese, or Movement Ecology

Natural Movement Is Efficient

Natural Movement Is Joyful

Movement is Counter-Culture

Movement is Not Medicine

Vitamin Community

Personal Mission Statement

Elderberry

Dear Katy


Afterword and Acknowledgments


Appendices

Appendix 1: Nature in Education

Appendix 2: Foraging

Appendix 3: Breastfeeding


Index

About the Author

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