Katy Says With Katy Bowman

For more information on online courses in March 2025:Click here for "Is That Yoga Move Right For You?" And here for "Diastasis Recti and Beyond" --Originally recorded in March 2016, this is a live audience podcast recorded at the Nutritious Movement Center in Sequim, Washington. It is a companion podcast to the book “Movement Matters” by Katy Bowman.

For more information on online courses in March 2025:Click here for "Is That Yoga Move Right For You?" And here for "Diastasis Recti and Beyond" --The second part of a 3-episode companion series is intended as a sort of study guide for Katy’s upcoming book, Movement Matters, in which Katy discusses using a personal mission statement as a new alignment tool.

For more information on online courses in March 2025:Click here for "Is That Yoga Move Right For You?" And here for "Diastasis Recti and Beyond" --Dani got to preview Katy’s upcoming book, Movement Matters.

For more information on online courses in March 2025:Click here for "Is That Yoga Move Right For You?" And here for "Diastasis Recti and Beyond" --Studies reveal that millennials’ grip strength is 10% less than test subjects in the same age range 30 years ago. Cause for concern, or cause for setting the standards to a “new norm”? Is it because we’re not farming, or rather are we too good at thumb swiping? Katy does a quick double-take in this handy episode.

For more information on online courses in March 2025:Click here for "Is That Yoga Move Right For You?" And here for "Diastasis Recti and Beyond" --What ARE you doing with your arms when you’re walking? What about uphill? What if you’re holding a dog leash? Let’s get down to arm-swing town with Katy as she breaks down the biomechanics of using those dangly things that hang from your shoulders.

For more information on online courses in March 2025:Click here for "Is That Yoga Move Right For You?" And here for "Diastasis Recti and Beyond" --Housecleaning time, so Katy answers your letters in an extra-long, MEGA Movement Mailbag.

For more information on online courses in March 2025:Click here for "Is That Yoga Move Right For You?" And here for "Diastasis Recti and Beyond" --Katy and Dani hold a festive wake for Katy’s first book, Every Woman’s Guide to Foot Pain Relief, and celebrate its reincarnation.

For more information on online courses in March 2025:Click here for "Is That Yoga Move Right For You?" And here for "Diastasis Recti and Beyond" --Katy gives us some backstage access to the Prevention magazine feature that puts her message about movement in the centerfold, as well as sharing some insights into what her everyday world is like. Oh, and there are Muggles and roosters. And watermelons.

For more information on online courses in March 2025:Click here for "Is That Yoga Move Right For You?" And here for "Diastasis Recti and Beyond" --Originally intended as time savers, our handheld devices have become time gobblers, and the easiest way to fritter away time is with social media. Katy and Dani discuss many ways—both macro and micro—to help you assess your relationship with your device and then shape that relationship to one that works better for the sort of life you want to live.

For more information on online courses in March 2025:Click here for "Is That Yoga Move Right For You?" And here for "Diastasis Recti and Beyond" --Katy and Dani recorded a live-audience podcast at the historic Boulder Bookstore and share thoughts on their whirlwind day of food, fun, family and friends. We wish you could’ve been there with us, but this is the next best thing.

For more information on online courses in March 2025:Click here for "Is That Yoga Move Right For You?" And here for "Diastasis Recti and Beyond" --Language—and words—matter. Recent headlines in the news can lead to a murky grasp of how health and wellness are really attained, and what we’re really discussing, for that matter. We’ll talk about recent news that will hopefully prompt a deeper examination of our sedentary culture and how it is shaped by both the biggest and smallest of things.

For more information on online courses in March 2025:Click here for "Is That Yoga Move Right For You?" And here for "Diastasis Recti and Beyond" --In this episode: walking with neuropathy pain, breathing while hanging, and tricky technical advice.

For more information on online courses in March 2025:Click here for "Is That Yoga Move Right For You?" And here for "Diastasis Recti and Beyond" --Katy and Dani deliver Part 2 of the Babies and Movement episode, and isn’t it a cutie? Katy follows up on some listener questions conceived during Part 1, and then discusses breastfeeding and baby ‘exercises’. Oh, and Did you know you are probably W.E.I.R.D. ? It’s okay…we are, too.

For more information on online courses in March 2025:Click here for "Is That Yoga Move Right For You?" And here for "Diastasis Recti and Beyond" --In Part 1 of the Baby Show, Katy discusses baby biomechanics! Did you know that load and frequency affect the stages of development—like how babies from more primitive hunter/gather-type populations develop differently than our modern-lifestyle babies? We‘ll also talk about babywearing and baby carrying, and how this affects both the parent AND the baby.

For more information on online courses in March 2025:Click here for "Is That Yoga Move Right For You?" And here for "Diastasis Recti and Beyond" --This episode of Katy Says isn’t just for females! If you’re a real anatomy geek or student of human movement, this show is for you. Because if periods didn’t exist, neither would you! Learn about the movement of menstruation and the whole-body movements that affect it.

For more information on online courses in March 2025:Click here for "Is That Yoga Move Right For You?" And here for "Diastasis Recti and Beyond" --In this episode: Shoe wear, knee pain, Cheerios, muscle cars and cultural clarification

For more information on online courses in March 2025:Click here for "Is That Yoga Move Right For You?" And here for "Diastasis Recti and Beyond" --What is osteoporosis? What about bone mineral density? In this episode, Katy helps us dig deeper into bone health. You’ll learn more about bone shapes, how bones are built and why your bone robusticity depends on a lot more than eating chocolate-calcium-chew-candies.

For more information on online courses in March 2025:Click here for "Is That Yoga Move Right For You?" And here for "Diastasis Recti and Beyond" --Sure, you guzzle lots of kale smoothies and there are no GMOs in your salad. But have you thought about the mechanical nutrition in your diet? In this episode, Katy cooks up a nice batch of food for thought that explains how the food forces in your life affect your whole body ecology.

For more information on online courses in March 2025:Click here for "Is That Yoga Move Right For You?" And here for "Diastasis Recti and Beyond" --In this episode: Cracked heels, scoliosis, tailbone pain and arthritic feet

For more information on online courses in March 2025:Click here for "Is That Yoga Move Right For You?" And here for "Diastasis Recti and Beyond" --You move your body, and your body is moved by your environment. The eyes are no exception. This episode focuses on two of your most important sensory input organs and how the way you use them has shaped the way they work.