The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson,

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

17 Gifts that will move you.

Today's guest post is by Katie Bowman, biomechanist and author of The Best Selling Move Your DNA

and a new release, Movement Matters, which examines our sedentary culture as well as our

personal relationship to movement and the societal impacts of outsourcing movement.

I'm happy to welcome her back to Marks Daily Apple.

Ancestral health models have begun reaching beyond diet and have expanded to include sleep,

stress, parenting practices, and movement. This leads to the question, can we better incorporate

the ideas of natural health into our holidays? Of course we can. We can prepare our

holiday meals with better sourced ingredients and eliminate the things we know aren't doing our

bodies good. But beyond the primary meal, are there other aspects of a holiday we can consider?

Spoiler alert, there are. I've always loved giving gifts, choosing the right book,

the perfect necklace, the coziest sweater for someone I love, has always been an essential

part of the holidays for me. But in recent years, I've run into a gift-giving dilemma. Most people

I know complain about having too much stuff, and many are striving for a more minimal

approach to life, from footwear to furniture. Many are striving to find ways to add more movement

to their lives beyond exercise, and to stop outsourcing so much of their movement to items of

convenience produced with the expense of fossil fuel production in some other area of the globe

in conditions we wouldn't find acceptable were we the ones having to labor. The more I've come

to understand the ecology of human movement, how directly exchanging our own personal movement

for the things we require in our daily life not only improves our personal physiology but can decrease the

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