Rethink Your Position : Reshape Your Exercise, Yoga, and Everyday Movement, One Part at a Time - Katy Bowman M.S.

Rethink Your Position

Reshape Your Exercise, Yoga, and Everyday Movement, One Part at a Time

By: Katy Bowman M.S.

Paperback | 11 May 2023

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We make hundreds of movement choices all day long, whether we know it or not: Walk or drive? Sit or stand? Hip to the right or to the left? Heels or flats? So how can we make the choices that leave us feeling and moving-even thinking-our best? It starts the ways in which our body is positioned throughout the day, whether working, exercising, or resting.

Rethink Your Position is your guide to everyday anatomy and alignment-part by part.

Daily aches and pains can feel unavoidable, but we can start feeling better by moving better.

And moving better starts with our individual body parts, and the relationship between and among those parts and the forces or loads they experience.

Professionals, experienced exercisers, and new-to-movement newbies alike will discover the big and little ways our body parts move. Rethink Your Position explains how to check the way different areas are moving now, includes precision exercises to get important parts moving better, and shows how to support better health by making small changes -not only at the gym, but at the office, in the kitchen, on a walk with friends....even while you're sleeping.

With her trademark clarity and humor, biomechanist, movement teacher, and bestselling author Katy Bowman provides simple, engaging instructions that will have you rethinking your position by reshaping what you're already doing.

Learn how to:
  • Avoid a "tech neck" by adjusting your head while looking at your phone
  • Set up your computer space to open tight shoulders
  • Switch up the way you walk for happier feet and knees
  • Care for your hips and psoas muscles by sitting differently
  • Adjust your pelvic tilt for a stronger pelvic floor and glutes
  • Wake up feeling refreshed by changing your sleep shape
  • Find even better form in your regular yoga, Pilates, or fitness workout
  • Care for your brain (and mind) with simple movements-like chewing!
Transform how you think about movement. Then watch your whole life change!
Industry Reviews

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR RETHINK YOUR POSITION

"When it comes to your body, Katy Bowman is the nerdy best friend you've been looking for your whole life. Having Katy in your life is like having a superpower." -Kelly Starrett, DPT, New York Times bestselling author of Becoming a Supple Leopard, Deskbound, and Built to Move

"This book contains all the ingredients we need to improve our alignment and make our daily movement more nutritive." -Mark Hyman, MD, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Young Forever and The Blood Sugar Solution

"Let this book be your field guide to greater physical and psychological flexibility, and enjoy the peace of mind, physical health, creativity and connection that moving more has to offer you." -Diana Hill, PhD, licensed clinical psychologist and author of ACT Daily Journal

"Rethink Your Position is a stellar guide to moving and living well today. It altered how I live my life and I'm better for it." -Michael Easter, author of The Comfort Crisis

"Katy's whole body of work is pointing toward an updated physical education for the coming challenges....The self-care contained in this book is not designed to make you more comfortable where you are, like a sauna. This self-care can literally change your 'position' in life to a deeper, more realistic feeling of comfort in the world." -Tom Myers, author of Anatomy Trains

"In this important book, Katy Bowman helps us to reshape our everyday movement and find comfort and ease in our bodies. I consider it essential reading for all humans!" -Chris Kresser, M.S., L.Ac, New York Times bestselling author of Paleo Cure

"This book contains the foundational principles to transform your daily life activities into opportunities to move and feel better." -Aaron Alexander, CR, LMT, author of The Align Method

"A must read no matter what your age or stage of health or fitness." -Jill Miller, author of Body by Breath and The Roll Model

"A sea change is occurring in exercise and rehabilitation. There is a movement to microdose your movement, with the understanding that each moment of the day provides an opportunity to make your health a little better. In this work, Katy provides a comprehensive map of how to use those moments-exactly how to do it. This is such an easy recommendation for everyone seeking health." -Dr. Eric Goodman, Chief at Foundation Training

"Rethink Your Position shows how to add healthy movement into even the busiest, most deskbound life, using nothing more complicated than your body, the floor, and the nearest wall or chair. With an infectious enthusiasm...Bowman shows how easy it can be to access a healthier body, brain and life." -Caroline Williams, author of Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free

"If you've ever wondered why your back, knee, shoulder, neck-you name it-hurts, or wished you had more time to exercise, or wanted to feel more at home in your body, your search is over. Katy Bowman helps you take better care of yourself by helping you understand how your body works and the simple adjustments it needs to be its best." -Kate Hanley, author of How to Be a Better Person and host of the How to Be a Better Person podcast

"Bowman is peerless at both understanding and interpreting human habits as well as finding new ways for us all to mindfully move. Told with typical humor, intelligence and brio, its practical, no-nonsense approach to innovative movement will have you head-ramping in no time. I loved it." -Professor Vybarr Cregan-Reid, author of Primate Change: How the World We Made is Remaking Us

"It's a simple, yet transformative prescription for living longer, better." -Maddy Dychtwald, Author and Co-founder of Age Wave

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