Stay ConnectedWelcome to The MOVEMENT Movement — the podcast for people who want the TRUTH about having a healthy, happy, strong body.
We’ll be breaking through the mythology, confusion and sometimes outright lies about what it takes to walk, run, hike, do yoga, paddle board, lift… or whatever you do. I’m here to help you do it better and have more fun.
It’s called The MOVEMENT Movement because We’re creating a movement. Making natural movement to the obvious choice the way natural FOOD is currently.
Are You Walking Wrong
– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 180 with Katy Bowman
Bestselling author, speaker, and a leader in the Movement movement, biomechanist Katy Bowman is changing the way we move and think about our need for movement. Bowman teaches movement globally and speaks about sedentarism and movement ecology to academic and scientific audiences. Her work has been featured in diverse media including The Today Show, CBC Radio One, The Seattle Times, and Good Housekeeping.
One of Maria Shriver's "Architects of Change" and an America Walks "Woman of the Walking Movement," Bowman has worked with companies like Patagonia, Nike and Google as well as a wide range of non-profits and other communities, sharing her "move more, move more body parts, move more for what you need" message. Her movement education company, Nutritious Movement, is based in Washington State, where she lives with her family. Her book, the bestselling Move Your DNA, highlighted the importance of distinguishing between movement and exercise and has revolutionized the way movement is now being discussed. This book along with her others—Movement Matters, Dynamic Aging, Grow Wild, Simple Steps to Foot Pain Relief, Diastasis Recti, Don't Just Sit There, Whole Body Barefoot, and Alignment Matters—has been critically acclaimed and translated worldwide.
Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement with Katy Bowman about the importance of moving correctly.
Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:
- How there is a difference between exercise, physical activity, and movement, and why those must be delineated well.
- Why people should learn how to carry their weight correctly throughout their body.
- How coming from an exercise-centric understanding of movement can be limiting.
- Why moving with other people keeps you committed to your movement journey.
- How most people are not being taught to see their own shape when they are moving and why that is problematic.
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Save Your Life by Walking
– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 179 with Stanley Bronstein
Stanley F. Bronstein is an attorney, CPA, broker, and author. 35 years ago, he was an 18-year-old college freshman who weighed close to 300 pounds. Roughly 30 years ago, his weight maxed out at 367 pounds. As recently as early 2009, he weighed 320 pounds. Now, in 2023, he's married; lives in Arizona has authored multiple self-help books. He's become a catalyst for change who's devoted his life to helping others to change for the better. Oh, and now he weighs 130 pounds. This was done with no drugs and no surgeries. Just hard work and determination. Stanley used to fear change. Now he embraces it because change is a necessary element of growth. If we change, we grow. If we don't change, we don't grow, we stagnate. That's the simple truth about change.
Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement with Stanley Bronstein about saving your life by walking.
Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:
- How it's never too late to begin a healthy journey in your life.
- How overcoming obstacles helps shape people into better versions of themselves.
- Why you shouldn't change yourself for anyone else, the change should be for you.
- How "diet" and "caffeine free" products are not inherently good for you.
- Why you should create your environment to match your goals.
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Can You Have Barefoot Form in Shoes?
– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 178
Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement about if you can have barefoot form in shoes.
Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:
- How talking about footwear is talking about the form of your foot.
- Why wearing shoes with a lot of cushioning limits the use of your Achilles tendon.
- How the Achilles tendon is the biggest spring in our body and many runners aren't using it.
- How you can untrain your brain from limiting the use of the Achilles tendon when you run.
- Why runners who wear padded running shoes need to retrain their brain.
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What a Physicist Says About Picking Shoes
– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 177 with Zachary Bergen
With decades of running experience and practical research in shock mechanics beginning at NASA Johnson Space Center, Zach has worked as a physicist in a wide variety of disciplines (some he can even talk about). For those who care he has degrees in Physics from Ga Tech and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has taught computer science at CU Boulder and participated in running gait studies at CU. Zach has applied technology to speech recognition for doctors, aircraft stealth and cloaking, climate research, image processing, and refereed journal publications as a principal author in several fields of study. To balance his brain he runs, hikes, bikes, plays music and enjoys salsa dancing with his partner.
While corresponding with Dr. Antonia Orfield with respect to the brain adaptation in her research published in the Journal of Behavioral Optometry, Zach formed an understanding of biological adaptation in areas like vision and translated that knowledge to correct his running gait to avoid continued injuries. Having realized the faux paux in most modern running shoe designs/philosophies, he went cold turkey and started a brain reprogramming using proprioception gained from removing all artificial contrivances and let his brain evolve his perfect stride. He currently designs ultra-high resolution satellites for the betterment of humanity. He's a space cowboy.
Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement with Zachary Bergen about what a physicist says about picking shoes.
Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:
- How supporting a system of the body tends to weaken it.
- Why you don't get instant feedback when you wear shoes with support.
- How feeling good isn't just a thought, it's a physiological reaction.
- How shoes that provide a lot of support are a new phenomenon.
- How cushioning in shoes prevents the foot doing from what it does naturally.Connect with Zachary:
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Get Fit WITHOUT Exercise
– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 176 with Steven Munatones
Steven Munatones has launched new products, services and technologies in the U.S. over the last 20 years. At TOTO Frontier, he licensed TOTO's sanitary ware technologies outside of Japan. At RealLiveSports, he designed and marketed the ESPN Play by Play, a 2006 Toy of the Year. At Aruze Gaming America, he launched hybrid slot machine reel technology in the gaming industry. At the World Open Water Swimming Association, he utilized 9 years of national team coaching to help shape and promote the new Olympic sport of marathon swimming. The Harvard graduate and certified KAATSU Master Instructor co-founded KAATSU Global with Dr. Sato, the Japanese inventor of KAATSU, to introduce next-generation KAATSU equipment.
Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Munatones about getting fit without exercise.
Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:
- How anyone can use KAATSU from disabled people to Olympians.
- How you can use KAATSU when you have a cast on to eliminate muscle atrophy.
- How micro movements with KAATSU helps generate lactate which serves as a catalyst for the secretion of the growth hormone.
- How KAATSU lets older individuals and disabled individuals live more independent lives.
- How the compression and decompression from KAATSU enhances what the body already does.
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Building a Foundation for Natural Movement
– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 175 with Skyler Tanner
Skyler Tanner, MS is an exercise physiologist, President and co-founder of Smart Strength, and a lecturer with World Instructor Training Schools. He received his Master of Science in Exercise Science from Texas State University. Skyler has more than 18 years of one-on-one training experience, with clients as young as 10 and as old as 94. His goal is to help clients improve health, function, and longevity with minimal time investment.
Skyler has lectured at the 2011 Ancestral health Symposium in 2011 at the University of California Los Angeles and in 2014 at the University of California Berkley. His work has been featured on Fox and on the Prevention Magazine media network.
Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement with Skyler Tanner about building a foundation for natural movement.
Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:
- How everything that is natural isn't inherently good for you.
- Why you should be asking if something is helpful, not natural.
- How running at a faster cadence can solve many of your running issues.
- Why our brains don't like to learn new ways to do things.
- How other people's running forms may not be relevant to you.
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What Research Says About Comfortable Shoes – and Women Who Have No Feet
– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 174 with Geoffrey Gray
Geoffrey Gray is the founder and President of Heeluxe who started the company by building custom high heels in a garage. He is the driving force behind Heeluxe's mission to "Make Better Shoes." Dr. Gray is inspired by the works of Salvatore Ferragamo and Bill Bowerman and their efforts to create footwear that is inspired by the human body. His background in Physical Therapy, professional athlete rehabilitation, woodworking, and classic car building give him a unique skill set to progress the research and design of all styles of footwear. As a speaker Dr Gray makes shoes science easy to understand which is why he is selected to speak at footwear brands, conferences, and television shoes all over the world.
Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement with Geoffrey Gray about what researchers say about comfortable shoes.
Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:
- How the scientific community doesn't know everything there is to know about feet.
- Why the traditional way to deal to deal with bunions doesn't fix the problem they cause.
- How it's easy to become myopic and blame one issue for the entire problem.
- Why running shoes are the most studied shoes on the planet.
- How researchers should be looking at the shoes people wear to work every day.
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Move Like a Kid Again
– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 173 with Bryan Osuna
Bryan Osuna is health and fitness devotee, sound worker, transformational life coach, athlete, artist, inventor, and men's growth facilitator. His philosophy is to mindfully combine timeless wisdom, modern understanding and intuition to create valuable resources and experiences that help others live fully and thrive. Bryan uses everything from movement and mindfulness to breath and sound to help people make meaningful change in their lives. Bryan believes that quality of life is ultimately found through our capacity to learn, love, connect, move, express, grow and be present with the fulness of life. Personally, Bryan strives to live fully by exploring his passions for fatherhood, movement, athletics, healing modalities, travel, nature, music, art and philosophy. He believes that true enjoyment of life comes through movement and exploration of the mind, body and spirit. To him, the greatest success in life comes when a person has a focused mind, energized body, free spirit and open heart.
Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement with Bryan Osuna about moving like a kid again.
Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:
- How look at the developmental stages of children and then use reverse engineer that and help people heal their biomechanics.
- Why we should be looking at the macro-movement patterns that kids naturally start doing.
- How breathing deeply into your belly helps regulate the nervous system and physical tension.
- Why having fun with movement is more important than having perfect form.
- How adults should be spending more time on the ground.
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Can Bare Feet Handle THIS?
– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 172 with Sam Mouzer
Sam Mouzer is 38-year-old mental health support worker, and now Naked and Afraid extreme survivalist.
Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement with Sam Mouzer about being barefoot in extreme conditions on Naked and Afraid.
Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:
- How important protein consumption is and what goes into producing and retrieving it.
- Why people are becoming more disconnected from the wild and the procurement of protein.
- How humans can consume most insects.
- How going barefoot allows you to use your feet as another form of sensory analysis.
- How your brain will make micro adjustments to your feet in reaction to barefoot walking.
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Should Kids Go Barefoot
– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 171 with Koby Deane
Koby Deane was born without shoes and has many years' experience not wearing any. His wife, son and dog watch him write and illustrate in the beautiful state of North Carolina, where both mountains and ocean beaches call out for adventure!
Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement with Koby Deane about why kids should go barefoot.
Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:
- How there are fun and positive aspects to children and people not wearing shoes.
- Why a little bit of confidence can go a long way when choosing to be barefoot in public.
- How your response is critical if an authority figure tells you to put shoes on.
- How parents condition their children to put their shoes on before going outside and why that might not be the best lesson.
- Why putting your kid's feet in shoes all the time stunts certain muscle growth.
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