Birth and death are the bookends that mark every human life, and in them and in between them there is movement. Our ancestors moved in a variety of ways throughout their days- foraging, hunting, seeking new landscapes, building shelter, birthing and carrying children, breastfeeding, processing food, finding water, etc. Physiologically, we are the exact same species; our bodies are identical to those of our prehistoric forebears.
Our biology hasn't changed, but our culture and physical environments have. Today, even the most active among us are mostly sedentary, and exercisers have just as many health problems and experience just as much injury as non-exercisers. We don't need more exercise (yay!), we need more MOVEMENT.
A biomechanist by training and a problem-solver at heart, Katy Bowman is radically changing our assumptions about what it means to live in an ancient human body in a modern and ever-changing world. She makes movement fun and shows people how to integrate it into every aspect of their lives. Her award-winning blog and podcast, Move Your DNA, reach hundreds of thousands of people every month, and thousands have taken her live classes. Her funny, wise, life-changing books have been critically acclaimed and translated worldwide.
In the Intro:
How Katy's work changed my concept of myself & what I'm capable of
Giveaway, Upcoming Event, etc.
Herb Learnin'- herbs are not "pseudo pharmaceuticals"
In the Interview:
Ancestral movement: stepping outside ourselves and looking at the wide scope of human time
Exercise as monoculture and movement as permaculture
Stacking your life- integrating movement into everything else
Finding your own roots (not someone else’s), and why 2018 is the year Katie finds her ancestors
Katy’s connection to the great-grandmother she was named after
Self reliance and how we’re shaped by the times we live in
The recent unassisted home death of Katy’s father, and the parallels Katy saw between that and birth
The many other deaths in Katy’s life within a 12 month period and how her movement practice kept her in a state of grace throughout the process
Movement as a metabolizer of stress and emotions
Bringing movement into grief- wailing, keening, caring for the body, (pallbearing!)
Keep moving because “there’s always another wave coming”
Katy’s recurring whale dream and the moment she lived it in real life
Reverence for the capacity and consciousness of cetaceans
Katy helps me break through my limited thinking around some of the things I spend most of my time doing (while sitting still)
The conscious practice of paying attention to what captures your imagination
Links:
Katy's website Nutritious Movement
Medicine Stories Patreon & my journey w/ pain & (non)movement
My interview on the Self Care Club podcast
The Good Medicine Confluence
Our Extra Potent Elderberry Elixir
Medicine Stories Facebook Group
Music by Mariee Sioux (from the song Wild Eyes)
Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
110. Women's Bodies are Metabolically Expensive (Why Things Break So Easily) - Dr. Suuzi Hazen
109. Loving Ourselves Home: Finding Sanctuary in Herbal Medicine - Kami McBride
108. The Mythic Hive & How Bees Heal Us - Ariella Daly
107. Death is the Great Healing: Reclaiming Ancestral Relationship w/ the Dead - Perdita Finn
106. Chronic Illness: Telling Honest Stories, Navigating the Underworld, and Tending the Roots - Sarah Ramey
105. Synchronicity Reveals Our Ecological Niche - Sophie Strand
104. Your Body is Not a Closed System: The Sun, Cell Signaling, & Metabolic Wellness - Sarah Kleiner
103. Midlife Burnout for Women & Why Healing Work Can Make Us Worse - Dr. Suuzi Hazen
102. The Living Matrix of Fascia & the Resonance of the Heart - Lindsay Courcelle
101. Rooting With the Ancient Mothers: Healing Wounded Lineages by Reclaiming Physiologic Birth & Radical Togetherness - Aimee Aroha
100. Returning the Mother to Herself: Our Nourishment Shapes How We Receive Life - Niecia Nelson
99. Holistic Health & Earth Connected Living in Technological Times - Carly Rose
98. Parenting Sensitive/Spirited/Neurodivergent Children, Leaving Schools, and Proudly Engaging in Wrongthink - Teva Johnstone
97. Five Years of Medicine Stories (& more)
96. Apprentice Yourself to the Earth: Plant Wisdom & Embodied Knowing - Kami McBride
95. Exiting the Overculture: Herbalism, Homesteading, & Unschooling My Mind
94. Our Trip to Britain: Ancestral Pilgrimage to Sacred Sites
93. Mirrors in the Earth: Self Remembrance & the Non-Stop Nurturance of the Natural World - Asia Suler
92. Expansion is Our Nature: a Matriarchal Reframe for Money & How I Went From Broke to Flow
91. The Mineral Matrix & the Motherline That Made You - Hamid Jabbar
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