Movement MattersMovement Matters
What if, during a bout of running or cycling, parts of you were still sedentary? What if our entire model for how a cell behaves were based on cells immobilized in a petri dish? What if natural movement was more than barefoot running and tree-climbing, and required a group of people? Thought-provoking, inspiring, and always entertaining, Movement Matters is a deep exploration of movement beyond exercise via a compendium of essays from bio-mechanist and movement ecologist Katy Bowman.
Comprising her best essays from 2011 to 2016, organized by theme, Movement Matters explores the main areas in which she has focused her most recent work:
• Dismantling our current understanding of movement science;
• Exploring movement ecology and the nature of movement;
• Giving practical advice for creating a movement-based lifestyle.
A companion to Alignment Matters (2013) 9780989653909, Movement Matters presents the deepening of Katy’s groundbreaking work, models that have evolved from thinking of the body as a single structure to considering it to be a cluster of a trillion bodies, and how those trillion bodies are being loaded by forces both inside (via muscular contraction) and outside (our cells are moved by the world around us).
From movement nutrients to furniture-free homes to forest school to the problems with asking for scientific “proof,” our cultural bias against movement is explored from many angles. The reader is left with a deeper understanding of the challenges we face as a movement-starved culture—and of the absolute joy and freedom that natural, nutritious movement can bring us.
Human beings have always moved for what they need until recently. We know how a lack of movement impacts our bodies but how does culture-wide sedentarism impact the world?
Movement Matters is a Foreword Indies GOLD-winning collection of essays, in which biomechanist Katy Bowman continues her groundbreaking presentation on the interconnectedness of nature, human movement, and the environment.
Here Bowman widens the “there is more to movement than exercise” message she presented in Move Your DNA and invites us to consider this idea: human movement is a part of the ecosystem.
Movement Matters explores how we make ourselves, our communities, and our planet healthier all at the same time by moving our bodies more as well as:
- how did we become so sedentary? Where did all the movement go? (Hint: convenience often saves us movement, not time.)
- the missing “movement nutrients” in our food
- how to include more nature in education
- why ecosystem models need to include human movement
- the human need for “Vitamin Community” and group movement.
Unapologetically direct, often hilarious, and always compassionate, Movement Matters demonstrates that human movement is powerful and important, and that going beyond exercise and living a movement-filled life is perhaps the most joyful and efficient way to transform your body, community, and world. A must read for exercise teachers, environmentalists, and those wanting simple, accessible ways to take action for a better world.
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- [Sequim, Washington] : Propriometrics Press, [2016]
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