Readers and writers tend to be excellent sitters. We equate immersion in a good book with leaving the physical body behind. We’ve come to think of sitting in a comfortable chair as a default position. We don’t think about training our bodies to read, or about tending our often stationary, book-loving bodies. But perhaps we should!

And writing presents its own set of challenges. Ask a physical therapist sometime how many of their clients are writers! So how can we move our bodies well, so that we can read more/better/longer?

What do we do when our bodies hurt, and our favorite hobby—and often our livelihood—is mostly sedentary? This conversation between two book lovers will explore just that: training your body when reading and/or writing is your sport.

From redefining healthy movement to walking book clubs to finding ways to read and stretch at the same time--if you’re someone who loves books and suspects you should be moving more, this conversation is for you!

Sarah Selecky has been a writer since she was five years old. Her collection of short stories, This Cake Is for the Party, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book in Canada and the Caribbean and was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Prize. Her novel, Radiant Shimmering Light, has been optioned for a premium one-hour television series. In 2011, she created the Sarah Selecky Writing School, now a creative community of over 10,000 writers from around the world.

Katy Bowman is a lifelong book person, whose personal journey is an evolution from book nerd to biomechanist and movement teacher/enthusiast who still loves books. And, in fact, Katy has written nine of them—all about movement for non-movers—including the acclaimed Move Your DNA and the forthcoming Rethink Your Position.

This event is a celebration of the launch of Katy’s new book, Rethink Your Position: Reshape Your Exercise, Yoga, and Everyday Movement, One Part at a Time, to be published on May 11th.

If you can't make it during the live event, a recording will be available here afterward.

Moving More: A Novel Approach for Book Lovers—A conversation with Katy Bowman and Sarah Selecky