The Way You Walk
We are please to present a Bee's Knees Podcast interview (click the Play button above) with Jonathan FitzGordon. Excerpts from the conversation about how to improve the way you walk are presented below.






My Background
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, There's not many of us left: I never thought I'd ever leave New York.
I started a waiter and a carpenter and just kind of a wanderer in my youth. I'm a high school dropout and I didn't know what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a filmmaker and a writer, and it turns out I am both of those things, but not the way I had planned. I started doing yoga in my thirties in 1995 on the lower east of Manhattan.






Two years in, I was doing stuff that I never thought I could do. And then my knees started to hurt. I had three knee surgeries over the course of a year and a half. It was a classic meniscus injury, a plant and twist injury while playing softball. That was really severe, the whole meniscus pulled off the mooring.













I was supposed to go to India and study with a guru and the doctor said, no problem, you'll be on your feet in 10 days. But instead it was a six-week recovery on crutches, not like your usual meniscus surgery. That was the first of three surgeries. Then back to yoga. I went through physical therapy, I went back to the mat, I blew my knee out again. I did it again. I had another surgery, I did physical therapy again, like I'm an idiot, right?






A Life-changing Moment
Finally, I was back in yoga and one of my teachers said to me, “What are you doing to not have a fourth surgery?”
And that was it. That was the life-changing moment. It's like my apocryphal tale. Once I picked my jaw up off the floor, I said, “Oh my God, I am doing nothing to avoid a fourth surgery. I'll be back under the knife if I don't make some changes.”






I started to learn about my body. I studied anatomy. I became a yoga teacher. I realized that the more I knew about my body, the easier it was to stop getting injured.













AVAILABILITY
Los Angeles
NY NJ CT
Michigan
Florida
Texas

Click Here for
the Full List





setREVStartSize({c: 'rev_slider_11_3',rl:[1240,1024,778,480],el:[340],gw:[250],gh:[340],type:'hero',justify:'',layout:'fullwidth',mh:"0"});
var revapi11,
tpj;
jQuery(function() {
tpj = jQuery;