Rethink Your Position

There is a crisis of stillness in our culture. We know we need to move more, and yet we're still not doing it. With frequent headaches, bunions, sore backs, aching knees, and more, we're feeling the effects of a sedentary lifestyle. Even when we do move, it can hurt in unexpected ways. Sometimes one or two sore body parts stop us from getting the exercise and daily activity we want and need.The good news: We don't have to feel this way!Rethink Your Position is a collection of short essays exploring how small changes in our positioning and choices can result in huge improvements in how our body moves overall and how it feels every day. Bestselling author, biomechanist, movement teacher, and leader of the Movement movement Katy Bowman specializes in making big ideas fun to read about. Here, she details how alignment matters-to every single part of our body.From lifestyle choices to exercises and changes in body alignment, Rethink Your Position takes a part-by-part approach to addressing common aches and pains and how to move ourselves for optimal functioning. She describes how to address "tech neck" with simple positional changes, how choosing different footwear can help stop "sneeze pees," how to hold our torso and pelvis so that our core muscles can get to work, and more.Some readers will bring the benefits of good alignment to their weightlifting, yoga, running, or exercise class. Some will bring them to carrying their child or grandchild, gardening, or just living day-to-day in a body that doesn't hurt all the time. All bodies benefit from good alignment!This is a revisited, revised, and refreshed update of Bowman's classic book Alignment Matters.