Alignment Matters

Troubleshoot your human machine and resolve the deeper alignment issues affecting your health. Through her blog, Katy Says, biomechanist Katy Bowman has been educating hundreds of thousands of people about optimal alignment and natural movement since 2007. Alignment Matters contains the first five years of her short essays, in an easy-to-follow format. Starting with the feet and working all the way up to the head, Bowman's clear, engaging text lays out a "user's manual" for the human body, including stretches, habit modifications, spiritual insights, and enough belly laughs to soften even the tightest psoas Couch potatoes, professional athletes, and everyone in between all have something to learn about their bodies. With Alignment Matters, they will be well on their way to understanding the human machine Katy has charmed and educated all body nerds for years with her unstoppable imagination and barrier-breaking communication skills...You will find yourself engrossed by her seamless intertwining of biomechanical authenticity, humbleness, humor and humanity.---Jill Miller, Creator of Yoga Tune Up®, Co-founder of Tune Up Fitness Worldwide Calling on science and her own sparkling wit, Katy gives brilliant insight into the "hows" of moving beyond a chair-bound culture to reclaim whole-body vitality.---Paul and Gail Dennison, creators of the Brain Gym® program for movement-based learning Without the information from this book... my body...would not allow me to pursue my fitness goals and be strong enough for the task of raising my four active kids.---Kara Douglass Thorn, co-author of Hot (Sweaty) Mamas: Five Secrets to Life as a Fit Mom