Move Your DNA with Katy Bowman

Sleep expert Shawn Stevenson helps kick off a new season of Move Your DNA with Katy Bowman, delivering three great tips you can use to improve your sleep life. Katy offers three tips of her own for better sleep. And Tricia Salcido of Dynamic Collective member Soft Star Shoes shares a little of the minimal shoe company’s history and current mission. October Retreats 2026 

Words Matter: In which Katy Bowman reads three more of the essays that appear in Alignment Matters— Science of Wellness, Immunity Boost, and Correcting Anatomy Misconceptions. Through these three essays, Katy examines why definitions matter—and how tough it is to communicate ideas with language instead of math, equations, and physical relativity. You’ll hear lots of updates in these essays of Katy...

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 will follow. Plus, get a free audiobook when you sign up for a 30-day free trial with Audible—and find out what’s next for the Move Your DNA podcast. October Retreats 2026 

With three essays from her book Alignment Matters, Katy Bowman delivers some movement motivation that’s as close as the floor, as thrilling to reach for as a mountain top, and as incrementally awesome as a walk with a bunch of kids. Plus! Katy’s kids deliver a little motivation of their own, with some hiking tips for kids their age. October Retreats 2026 

Katy reads three of her favorite essays from Alignment Matters on feet and foot health, and offers a State of the Minimal Shoe Union address, with lots of tips for transitioning well to minimal shoes. Find out why she cut the feeties off her kids' feetie pyjamas, and why she doesn't recommend flip flops, except for by the pool. October Retreats 2026 

Find out what boobs, balls, and arms have in common. In the first of this special summer series, Katy Bowman reads three of her favorite essays from her book Alignment Matters , and notes the connections among them. Plus! Announcing Wilderness Moves: Hiking Awareness with Katy Bowman and Doniga Markegard in Chimacum, WA in September 2018. October Retreats 2026 

Katy Bowman and guests talk about the ways in which movement can be an intrinsic part of grieving, and how we could look at our experience of grief as grief in a sedentary culture. Don Morris talks about the movements involved in deathcare, body preparation, home funerals and burial, and Breanna Trygg of Wild Grief talks about how natural movement, and especially moving in nature, helps teens proc...

We talk a lot about walkability on this podcast, but what does it really mean? And how does urban design and the built environment shape the way we move, or don’t? Katy Bowman talks walkability with urban planner Samantha Thomas. Plus, we explore the idea of mobility justice with Multicultural Communities for Mobility’s Maria Sipin. And Katy answers listener questions on stretching and preparing f...

Katy Bowman and Philip Brass, who is a member of the Peepeekisis First Nation in the Treaty Four Territory of Canada, discuss Indigenous food sovereignty, and how moving for food can be the spine of culture. Plus, Katy answers listener questions on swimming as movement, and feet and shoe size. October Retreats 2026 

Hi friends. It’s me, Katy. I am ready for—in the process of, really—a social media prune. Many of you are picking up what I’m putting down on line and I wanted to talk to you about why and how I’m transitioning away from/downsizing my social media even though I’m someone whose business seems to depend on it.   October Retreats 2026 

Are you moving the way you want to be moving? In which areas of your body or life have you begun to move better, and in which areas do you still desire to move more? What changes can you make in your life, to meet your needs? Read more about turbulent flow and high intensity activity in: Alignment Matters https://nutritiousmovement.com/product/alignment-matters/ and Move Your DNA  https://nutritio...

Katy Bowman and Dr. Ihi Heke talk about movement and indigenous approaches to health, including Heke's Maori framework--that our relationship with where we’re born and where we live has implications for our health.  This wide-ranging and fascinating conversation also explores non-person-centric approaches to health, and the idea that exercise depends on a cultural context. Dr. Heke explains what i...

Katy Bowman and Ben Pobjoy on how moving your body can also move your community.  @BenPobjoy on Instagram @DemocraticExercise on Instagram DemocraticExercise.com Katy’s live events: https://nutritiousmovement.pike13.com/categories/64332 The vocal coach Katy mentions: http://www.sarahwhitten.com/   October Retreats 2026 

Katy Bowman and two teachers from Olympic Nature Experience talk about how to get more nature—and more wonder—into your life. Raven and Crow is from the Wilderbeats album “Live in Concert,” available at wilderbeats.com.  The song is by Ashley Moffat, who now performs solo.  Her website is http://ashleymoffat.com instagram.com/lilmissmoffat/ The Tamarack Song is by Joyce Saunders from the Wilderbea...

Katy Bowman and Gail Tully on why a baby moving through a pelvis has almost nothing in common with a couch moving through a stairwell, a watermelon moving through a nostril, or a basketball moving through a hoop. Find more Katy Bowman at https://nutritiousmovement.com Find more about the Dynamic Collective at https://nutritiousmovement.com/podcasts/#podcast-sponsors Find more about Gail Tully at h...

Wild food forager Sam Thayer talks with Katy Bowman about how he began foraging out of necessity, but now his body craves the nutrition—and nutritious movement—he only gets from foraging. Plus, he runs us through the physical work involved in making maple syrup and harvesting wild rice. Mileage for those who want to listen on the go: This podcast clocks in at around 75 minutes… so head out for a s...

Katy Bowman and Doniga Markegard, author of Dawn Again, talk wilderness, movement, and moving in and with nature. Katy’s Unshoes post on Instagram . Doniga Markegard: https://www.donigamarkegard.com Dawn Again: http://propriometricspress.com/dawn-again/ ShiftCon: https://shiftconmedia.com/sc_speaker/doniga-markegard/ Dynamic Aging retreat: https://nutritiousmovement.pike13.com/courses/156115 Octob...

Katy Bowman interviews Jason Lewis, author of The Expedition Trilogy, about his self- powered circumnavigation of the globe, and how each of us has our own expedition within us—an expedition made of a series of small steps, no matter what the scope. Find Jason Lewis online at http://jasonexplorer.com and on Twitter @explorerjason For more information about his books: http://www.billyfishbooks.com/...

It’s that time of the year again: Your Health and Movement Year-end Review! Join Katy and a special guest as they look back on their movement and health goals of 2017 and then look forward to just how great 2018 is going to be! October Retreats 2026 

In which Katy Bowman tells Stephanie Domet that honestly, she’s not surprised she had a felt advent calendar instead of one with chocolates.  KB’s instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/nutritiousmovement/   October Retreats 2026 

Welcome to the Katy Says podcast… This is the tenth in a series of special episodes we’re calling Between the Lines, where Katy Bowman and Stephanie Domet explore the deeper messages in and connections between Katy’s books. October Retreats 2026 

Welcome to the Katy Says podcast… This is the ninth in a series of special episodes we’re calling Between the Lines, where Katy Bowman and Stephanie Domet explore the deeper messages in and connections between Katy’s books. Movement Matters:  https://nutritiousmovement.com/product/movement-matters-essays-on-movement-science-movement-ecology-and-the-nature-of-movement/ October Retreats 2026 

Welcome to the Katy Says podcast… This is the eighth in a series of special episodes we’re calling Between the Lines, where Katy Bowman and Stephanie Domet explore the deeper messages in and connections between Katy’s books. October Retreats 2026 

In which Katy Bowman tells Stephanie Domet why Diastasis Recti is the perfect title for this book, despite what some contest judges may think. Diastasis Recti:  https://nutritiousmovement.com/product/diastasis-recti- the- whole-body- solution-to- abdominal-weakness- and-separation/ Movement October Retreats 2026 

Katy Bowman tells Stephanie Domet that the way we work now is probably killing us, and we might want to maybe move a little. Don’t Just Sit There: https://nutritiousmovement.com/product/dont-just- sit-there/ Mark’s Daily Apple: http://marksdailyapple.com The Bhagavad Gita: http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/index- english.html Fidget spinners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidget_spinner October Retreat...