Your Leg Actually Starts at Your Belly Button

Your leg actually starts at your belly button — how the body is designed to move, and why stiffness is not just age.

Show Notes

Our bodies are designed to move with ease — but stress, repeated patterns, and hours of sitting slowly take that flow away. In this episode I look at how that happens, then walk through the way we're actually meant to sit down, stand up, and walk: folding from the tops of the legs, reaching for the chair with the sit bones, and letting each step begin at the level of the navel. A few small shifts in how you move can make everyday movement feel easier.

This episode is for education and isn't medical advice.

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ABOUT LEIGH
Leigh Ankrum is the founder of the Ankrum Institute and a master teacher of Functional Bodywork — a whole-person approach rooted in osteopathic principles. On The Body Knows, she shares forty years of hands-on practice in plain language, for practitioners who want to go deeper and anyone who wants to understand the body they live in.

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What is The Body Knows?

How does the body actually heal? Leigh Ankrum — founder of the Ankrum Institute and a teacher of whole-body manual therapy — shares short, clear conversations on what your body is telling you: fascia, the nervous system, the body's pressure systems, movement, and the deeper patterns underneath pain. If you have ever sensed there was more to your symptoms than you were told, you are in the right place. The body knows — listen in.