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Move Your DNA with Katy Bowman — 211 episodes

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The Shape of Cycling — and How to Balance It

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One Step at a Time: Movement Mantras for Better Walks

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Too Much Sitting, "Spiky" Cholesterol, and Heart Disease

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What Your Husband, Brother, Son, or Dad Might Need to Know About Movement

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Good Vibrations: Walking, Running, Minimal Shoes & Vibration Plates

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Pelvic Alignment: Constipation, Sacral Pain & Sexual Health

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Beyond Lifespan and Healthspan: The Case for Joyspan

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Determining if you're FRAIL (or "Pre-Frail") and What to do About it

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Movement & Disability: Stacking Movement and Education for a Meaningful life

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Amenorrhea, Energy Deficiency & the Female Athlete

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Nine Minutes to a Healthier Heart: Vigorous Exercise, Menopause & Hypertension

12

Feel Better Knees: Anatomy and Loads

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Move Smarter, Not Harder: Three Movement Plan Must-Haves

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Winter Movement Science: Cold Weather Exercise, Heart Health, and Staying Active Indoors

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2025 Recap + The Rules for a Stronger 2026

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You’re Not Over the Hill, You’re in the Valley: Why Exercise Must Increase With Age

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How Does Exercise Move Your DNA?

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Exercise And Recovery: How Rest Makes You Stronger

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Parenting a Spicy Child? How to Use Movement to Find Calm and Connection

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How To Solve The "I Don't Have Time To Exercise" Problem

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Want to Stay Strong as You Age? Add Speed to What You Already Do

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Exercise Pills Explained: Hope or Hype?

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Exercise and Strong Skin: Are Calluses a Problem or Essential for Strength?

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Diabetes and Exercise: How Exactly Muscle Movement Manages Blood Sugar

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Can Exercise Fix Aging Eyes?

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What to Do When Rucking Or Carrying Heavy Loads Hurts

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Dynamic Wardrobes: How Clothes Can Restrict, Encourage or Stabilize Movement

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All About Eccentric Exercise: Get Stronger Doing Half Of An Exercise

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Where Exactly Is Muscle Memory? And Other 'Movement In The News" Headlines

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What You Need To Know About Bone 2: It's Not The Mode It's The Load

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EP 180 What You Need To Know About Bone 1: Your Skeleton Is An Autobiography

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Ep 179: Is The Concept of Exercise Helpful or Harmful?

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Ep 178: Are Humans Born To Walk?

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Ep 177: Hypermobility, Proprioception And Building Up A Bendy Body

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Ep 176: Do We Really Lose Muscle As We Get Older?

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Ep 175 I Know I Should Exercise But....

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Ep 174: Matters of the Heart

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Ep 173: Is Posture a Thing?

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Ep 172: Is Standing the New Smoking?

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Ep 171 HOW DID YOU MOVE HOW WILL YOU MOVE 2024

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Ep 170: Don’t Ignore the Head and Neck

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Ep 169: A Dog's Best Movement Diet

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Ep 168: Is Sitting Aging You Faster?

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Ep 167: Things I Learned Walking 100 Miles in 6 Days

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Ep 166: Coughing, A Surprising Measure of Whole-Body Strength

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Ep 165: Is There Really a 'Right' Way to Walk?

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Ep 164: Menopause in Motion - There is More to Menopause & Movement Than You Think

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Ep 163: Are Lungs Outside the Body?

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Ep 162: Are Humans Natural Swimmers?

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Ep 161: Are Books Good for the Body?

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Ep 160: Hiking Mailbag

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Ep 159: To Hiking Pole or Not to Hiking Pole

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Ep 158: Are Bunions Born or Made?

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Ep 157: Movement as Regulation: Spicy Kids

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Ep 156: Your Perfect Movement Plan

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Ep 155: What is a "Movement Diet"?

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Ep 154: Self-Compassion as Movement Motivation with Dr. Diana Hill

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Ep 153: Sedentary Animals w/Dr. Andrea Graves

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Ep 152: How Did You Move? How Will You Move?

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Ep 151: How to Improve Your Grip Strength (and why it matters)

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Ep 150: How I Feel About Minimal Shoes After My Foot Injury

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Ep 149: Headphone Dents: What it Takes to Reshape a Skull

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EP 148: Making Movement Meaningful with Kelly and Juliet Starrett

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EP 147: Face Exercise - Why To & How To

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Ep 146: A Different Take On Getting Your Body Vacation-Ready

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Ep 145: Breath is a Whole-Body Activity (with Jill Miller)

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Ep 144: Eleven Feel-Good Reasons For An 11-Minute Walk

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Ep 143: Movement and the Rise of Myopia

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Ep 142: Why Do You Want To Move More?

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Ep 141: How Did You Move in 2022?

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Ep 140: CELEBRATE! 11 Steps to Cozy, Joyful & Dynamic Holidays

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Ep 139: A Podiatrist Transitions Footwear from Cure to Cause

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Ep 138: Back-to-School Movement

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Ep 137: An Introduction to Movement Beyond Exercise

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Ep 136: Walking Black Heritage Trails with Ken Johnston

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Ep 135: Sleep MOVEZzzzz

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Ep 134: Are You a Healthy Deviant?

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Ep 133: How to Get Your People to Move More

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Ep 132: How Movement Fits into Intentional Aging

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Ep 131: The Authors of Dynamic Aging, 5 Years Later

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Ep 130: It's Both What You Walk IN And What You Walk ON

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Ep 129: 10 Ways to Get Kids Walking More, from Toddlers to Tweens

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Ep 128: Sedentary Culture/Active Nature

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Ep 127: Thoughts on Walking While Walking with Friends

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Bonus: State of the Kate-y

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Ep 126: A Different Kind of Activity Tracker

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Ep 125: Introducing Grow Wild

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Ep 124: Your Questions About Walking

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Ep 123: Gardening Movement

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Ep 122: Breathing Shapes

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Ep 121: Move Your Breathing Parts Better

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Ep 120: How (and Why) I Walked 440 Miles for My 44th Birthday

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Ep 119: Taking Bone Mechanics by the Horns

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Ep 118: Social Media is Shaping Your Relationships

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Ep 117: How Did You Move in 2018?

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Ep 116: Taking a Breath(er)

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Ep 115: Ancestral Actions with Arthur Haines

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Ep 114: Taking Action in the Garden with Rose Hayden-Smith

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Ep 113: Long distance actions with Dami Roelse

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Ep 112: Healthy Hips in Action with Jill Miller

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Ep 111: Kids in Action with Angela Hanscom

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Ep 110: Sleep Action with Shawn Stevenson

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Ep 109: Alignment Matters: Words Matter

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Ep 108: Alignment Matters: Change Your Mind, Change Your Joints

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Ep 107: Alignment Matters: Movement Motivation

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Ep 106: Alignment Matters: Your Feet Through the Years

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Ep 105: Things That Swing

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Ep 104: Death Moves

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Ep 103: The city moves you

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Ep 102: Being on the land

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Ep 101: Social Media is (STILL) Shaping Your Body

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Ep 100: The Ultimate Movement Expert

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Ep 99: Your Environment Moves You

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Ep 98: Walking the talk

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Ep 97: NATURE SCHOOL MOVES

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Ep 96: Birth and the Shapeshifting Pelvis

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Ep 95: The Maple Syrup Workout

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Ep 94: WILDERNESS MOVES

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Ep 93: The expedition within each of us

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Ep 92: REFLECT on 2017 before you RESOLVE in 2018.

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Ep 91: Between the Lines 11 - You do know squat!

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Ep 90: Between the Lines 10 - Movements matter...even the ones in public bathrooms

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Ep 89: Between the Lines 9 - Movement Matters so much, we’re devoting the next couple episodes to it!

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Ep 88: Between the Lines 8 - Calf Stretch

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Ep 87: Between the Lines 7 - Diastasis Recti…it’s for anyone who has a torso!

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Ep 86: Between the Lines - Don’t Just Sit There…but don’t just stand there, either.

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Ep 85: Between the Lines - It Starts With Feet

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Ep 84: Between the Lines - Stay Golden

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Ep 83: Under Pressure

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Ep 82: Between the Lines, And That's What Move Your DNA is All About!

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Ep 81: Between the Lines - Alignment Matters, and so does Movement

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Ep 80: Social Media is Shaping Your Body

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Ep 79: Between the Lines, Part One

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Ep 78: We Got Your Back

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Ep 77: Breastfeeding Ecology, Part 2

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Ep 76: The Sleep Show

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Ep 75: A Social Media Break

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Ep 74: Mailbag

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Ep 73: Dynamic Aging

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Ep 72: Breastfeeding Ecology, Part 1

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Ep 71: Movement is Not Medicine

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Ep 70: Alignment Matters, Still

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Ep 69: Natural Movement and Variability

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Ep 68: How Did You Move in 2016?

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Ep 67 - A Nature Education

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Ep 66 - Importance of Movement in Uncertain Times

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Ep 65 - Transitioning to Floor Sitting

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Ep 64 - Movement Ecology: Live Audience Podcast Recording

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Ep 63 - Movement Matters #2: Personal Mission Statement

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Ep 62 - Dani Reads Movement Matters

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Ep 61 - Get a Grip!

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Ep 60 - Swingers

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Ep 59 - MEGA Movement Mailbag

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Ep 58 - A Funeral for Foot Pain

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Ep 57 - Furniture-Free Freak Goes Mainstream

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Ep 56 - Simple Steps to a Tech Break

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Ep 55 - An Evening with Katy & Dani in Boulder

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Ep 54 - Sedentary Culture in the News

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Ep 53 - Movement Mailbag #4

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Ep 52 - Babies and Movement, Part 2

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Ep 51- Babies and Movement, Part 1

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Ep 50 - Movement, Period.

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Ep 49 - Special Edition Katy Says Movement Mailbag!

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Ep 48 - Dem Bones

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Ep 47 - Food Forces

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Ep 46 - Katy Says Movement Mailbag #3

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Ep 45 - Natural Movement and Eyes

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Ep 44 - The Skinny on Fat

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Ep 43 - Katy Says Movement Mailbag

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Ep 42 - Cardio & Natural Movement

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Ep 41 - 5 Ways to Move You Closer to Better Health

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Ep 40 - Katy Says Movement Mailbag

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Ep 39 - Stack Your Life for More Natural Movement

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Ep 38 - How Did You Move in 2015?

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Ep 37 - Moving Through the Winter

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Ep 36 - Nutritious Movement

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Ep 35 - Diastasis Recti—The Book!

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Ep 34 - Thoughts on Incontinence

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Ep 33 - Cycling

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Ep 32 - Enter the Gait Lab

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Ep 31 - Wassup, Katy?

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Ep 30 - Back-to-School Biomechanics

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Ep 29 - The Skin Show

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Ep 28 - It’s a Mail Bag Show!

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Ep 27 - Fashion Movement

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Ep 26 - The Ben Show

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Ep 25 - Headlines that Move

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Ep 24 - Community

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Ep 23 - Nature School

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Ep 22 - Household Movement Hacks

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Ep 21 - Is Exercise Junk Food?

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Ep 20 - I’m All About the BASE, Part 2

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Ep 19 – I’m All About the BASE, Part 1

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Ep 18 - Whole Body Barefoot

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Ep 17 - Katy Bowman’s MovNat Vacation

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Ep 16 - The Solution Show

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Ep 15 - The Balls Show!

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Ep 14 - The Boob Show

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Ep 13 - 100 Questions in 30 Minutes

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Ep 12 - The Car Show

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Ep 11 - Diastasis Recti

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Ep 10 - The Core

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Ep 9 - Treadmills

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Ep 8 - Move Your DNA

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Ep 7 - Don't Just Sit There! Exploring Dynamic Workstations

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Ep 6 - Thoughts on the Vibram Kerfuffle

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Ep 5 - The Delicious Butt (Function) Show

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Ep 4 - Mail Bag 1

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Ep 3 - Casts

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Ep 2 - Natural Movement

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Ep 1 - Let's Talk Alignment!