Alignment Matters: The First Five Years of Katy Says

“Compensatory mechanism: An action taken by the body to continue physiological function despite an alteration in natural function.”

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

3. Please explain that research shows that consistent, lower-intensity movements (walking, yoga, stretching classes) demonstrate greater long-term decreases in body fat than high-intensity and joint-damaging high-impact exercise sessions.

If your lower belly bulged out when you coughed (and it DID, didn’t it!!?) then your constant sucking in your stomach has smashed everything up against the bottom of your diaphragm so now when you cough it isn’t pushing a hundred percent up any longer, but has a downward component. (Which is why a lot of people pee their pants when they cough or la

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

Because sitting alters the muscle lengths in the legs so greatly, the lower half of the body no longer gives muscular support to the cardiovascular system. The calves and hamstrings become so tight they cannot hold their share of blood, causing excess strain on the main arteries, increasing the risk for cardiovascular disease. The evil henchman Sit

If you are sitting because you don’t have the strength to stand, then standing is the exact exercise you need in order to improve!

Notice the terms like “it’s my natural state,” or “I was born this way,” etc., above. Your motor pathways are somatic—which means you have total control over what is happening to all your muscles. When you have beliefs that reinforce where your body is, then it’s going to be difficult to change. This is a new mantra for everyone: Muscle length is c

It’s sucking in your stomach. No, really. That’s one of the worst things you can do for your health (even though it may be one of the BEST things you can do while being photographed in your bathing suit). Most people have replaced deep abdominal activity with “sucking their stomach in.” The belief held by most is that “sucking it in” constantly use