Episode 4
Katy Bowman

 

Katy Bowman is the director of the Restorative Exercise Institute and the Aligned and Well program. We talk about her book Alignment Matters: The First Five Years of Katy Says. 

We talk about:

  • What alignment is according to Katy and why it matters so much. (HINT: It’s not posture!)

  • How the body can be looked at as a machine

  • How biotensegrity and biomechanics work together to explain human movement

  • Movement vs. fitness and why they are not the same thing

  • Pelvic floor disorder and pelvic health

  • Optimal gait patterns