Alignment Matters: The First Five Years of Katy Says

Working on opening areas that have been shut for years is extremely rewarding and calming to the brain (your brain kind of panics when you have a lot of tight muscles. Your brain knows that you need long muscles to keep your body from degenerating fast!). Realllllllly tight muscles that have “always been that way” are going to require lots of dilig

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.

Although it may feel like tightness is your “natural” state, the reasons for tight muscles can go back all the way to your time in utero, which is why many people have always felt tight! When your body goes through oxygen deprivation, the brain begins shutting down different parts of its function. Motor function (communication between nerve and mus

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

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

Blood sugar. The higher your blood sugar, the more your blood is like syrup. Like the type of syrup Starbucks puts in your vanilla latte.

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

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.

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