Bestselling author, speaker, and a leader of the Movement movement, biomechanist Katy Bowman, M.S. is changing the way we move and think about our need for movement. Her 10 books, including the groundbreaking Move Your DNA, have been translated into more than 16 languages worldwide.

Bowman teaches movement globally and speaks about sedentarism and movement ecology to academic and scientific audiences such as the Ancestral Health Summit and the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. Her work has been featured in diverse media such as the Today Show, CBC Radio One, the Seattle Times, NPR, the Joe Rogan Experience, and Good Housekeeping.

One of Maria Shriver’s Architects of Change and an America Walks Woman of the Walking Movement, Bowman consults on educational and living space design to encourage movement-rich habitats. She has worked with companies like Patagonia, Nike, and Google as well as a wide range of non-profits and other communities to create greater access to her move more, move more body parts, move more for what you need message.

Her movement education company, Nutritious Movement, is based in Washington State, where she lives with her family.

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