11 Quotes by Katy Bowman

We tend to give much less consideration to how we feel. But how you feel is the earliest indicator of your health on a cellular level.

The way we move direct influences how our bodies are shaped.

Science does a great job at reducing variables until they are small enough to be understood, but we aren't doing a great job at reassembling the picture once it has been broken down into a thousand pieces

Watch your habits, for they become your posture. Watch your posture, for it creates your boundaries. Watch your boundaries, for they restrict your growth. Watch your restrictions, for they create immobility. Watch your immobility, for it becomes your illness.

Extreme soreness has become a celebrated experience in our culture, but pain is often an indication that you’ve gone too far, too fast.

Krishnamurti said, “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

The paradox of the modern world is this: Not only do we do less, physically, than ever before, but we also almost never do nothing. Our bodies, deprived of large movements, are inundated with subtle-yet-continuous physical stimulation from noise, light, data, etc. This constant stream of input is a two-fold stressor, as not only is the frequency of certain environmentally induced loads extremely high, the types of input we are experiencing are unnatural.

Science does a great job at reducing variables until they are small enough to be understood, but we aren’t doing a great job at reassembling the picture once it has been broken down into a thousand pieces.

Perhaps the only way out of our poor physical state, created by our culture of convenience, is a return to the behaviors of our ancestors.