A smarter, gentler approach to healing diastasis recti, rebuilding core strength, and supporting your pelvic floor
Abdominal separation, core weakness, and even hernias are rarely just “ab problems.” The way you sit, stand, walk, carry groceries (or toddlers), tense your shoulders, scroll your phone, and even breathe affects the pressure and forces moving through your midsection every day.
In
Diastasis Recti, Katy Bowman offers a practical, whole-body approach to abdominal healing that goes far beyond “bounce back” culture and punishing workouts. Warm, funny, and deeply informative, this guide helps you better understand your body, and move yourself well.
Whether you’re navigating postpartum recovery, pelvic floor dysfunction, hypermobility, hernias, or ongoing core weakness, Bowman shows how simple exercises plus adjustments to every day movements can add up to meaningful change over time.
Learn:
- To resolve “core confusion” and learn the difference between actually using your abs and just sucking everything in
- 30+ exercises organized into Little, Medium, and Big Moves—so you can build strength without needing a full life overhaul
- To use walls, floors, and everyday surroundings as built-in “movement coaches” to improve form and support your core
- How pressure and forces from both inside and outside the body affect abdominal separation, posture, and pelvic floor health
- Quick posture and movement tweaks that can reduce strain on your abdomen while sitting, standing, walking, lifting, and carrying
- Everyday strategies that fit into real life—even if you’re busy, tired, working, parenting, caregiving, or all of the above
- To become a body nerd (in the best way) and finally understand what your core is actually doing all day long
- How to strengthen your core without increasing pressure on the pelvic floor or relying on endless crunches
This is not a quick fix, a six-pack plan, or a “perfect body” program. It’s a realistic, empowering guide to moving better, feeling stronger, and supporting your body for the long haul—with plenty of science, practical tools, and humor along the way.
Bestselling author, speaker, and a leader of the Movement movement, biomechanist Katy Bowman, M.S. is changing the way we move and think about our need for movement. Her eleven books, including the groundbreaking Move Your DNA, have sold more than 300,000 copies in English and been translated into 17 languages worldwide.
Bowman teaches movement globally and speaks about sedentarism and movement ecology to academic and scientific audiences such as the Ancestral Health Summit and the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. Her work has been featured in media as diverse as the Today Show, CBC Radio One, the
Seattle Times, NPR, the Joe Rogan Experience, and
Good Housekeeping.
One of Maria Shriver’s “Architects of Change” and an America Walks “Woman of the Walking Movement,” Bowman consults on educational and living space design to encourage movement-rich habitats. She has worked with Patagonia, Nike, and Google as well as a wide range of non-profits and other communities to create greater access to 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.
