Alignment Matters: The First Five Years of Katy Says

3. Stop landing on a bent knee. Only beg on one. The rest of the time, the muscle strip along the outside of the hip and knee should be working to keep the leg bones fully lengthened (straight). Landing on a bent knee is an indication that the strength in your hips is less than the weight of your body.

As a compensation for muscle tightness, the body creates a hypermobile joint by relaxing ligaments to allow movement.

I go on and on about alignment, but I don’t want you to think it’s about aesthetics, or appearance, or even the macromechanics like muscle function and joint health. Even though it is about those things too. It’s really about the micromechanics. The fact is, if you are not aligned correctly, you are creating damage on the cellular level.

Originally, the term gait meant a manner of walking, but has since become used more generally, referencing any pattern of limb (arm and leg) movement while moving on foot. Everyone has a particular gait pattern, or way of moving. It comes

The position (literally) we have gotten our body into is being passed down to the next generation, because we have not been instructed on how to move. We keep teaching the next generation our poor habits because we don’t understand how movement and alignment are passed on (psssst… it’s not genetic). The farther we have gotten from nature, the less

Berkeley architecture professor Galen Cranz wrote a book called The Chair: Rethinking Body, Culture and Design. (You could walk to the library to pick it up!) It is a great, thorough history of the structure of the chair, the role the class system has had on chair design, and the impact sitting has had on the body.

We have made the entire science of cardiovascular disease about fat and cholesterol and chemistry when it is really about geometry. You can try to cut all the cholesterol out of your diet, but that doesn’t keep the plaque from accumulating. You have to stop the WOUNDING, which means you have to fix the geometry. Which means you have to fix your ali

When you are having any (and I mean ANY) type of health problem, create a list of all the things you are asking your body to do and ask yourself—How many of these things are natural to the human being? Your ailments will start to be less of a mystery when you look at yourself as an engineer looks at a machine. The remedy is usually not in what to d

Plaque accumulates NOT because of blood chemistry, but because of the action of the cells flowing within the blood vessels. Normally, cells in the blood glide along down the blood vessels, like a ball rolling down a hallway. If that hallway has a turn in it, however, the ball will smack into the wall. Blood cells do the same thing. A blood cell hit