Do you believe that your back pain is normal? That the pain you feel when you get out of bed in the morning is just a sign of aging? Or that your pain while sitting is caused by sitting itself? If so, you’re wrong, but you’re not alone. I was reminded of this when I read …
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Fashion photography always exaggerates. That’s why the pages of fashion magazines are filled with models in catastrophic posture, like the one above, from a 2018 Elle magazine. When I chanced upon it, I was in my ophthalmologist’s waiting room, and I swear it made my eyes hurt. I have a pretty good idea what she …
Are you familiar with Gretchen Rubin, author of wildly successful self-help book, The Happiness Project? One of her “secrets of adulthood” goes like this: what you do every day is more important than what you do once in a while. It makes sense. Anyone who plays a musical instrument has learned that 15 minutes of …
As a keen observer of the yoga scene, you may be wondering: What is Spineful Yoga? You might also ask: Does the world really need another yoga style? Wasn’t our desire for novelty satisfied once and for all by goat yoga? Well, here we go. Spineful yoga is yoga in alignment with gravity. The story of …
If you’ve ever felt guilty about slouching, you can stop now. It’s not your fault. Posture is cultural. Not only do we echo the posture of the people we’re talking to, we also mimic, down to the finest details, the people, and images of people, that surround us. And what we see is largely catastrophic …
I glimpsed this mis-aligned column while being swept along in a human stream descending the steps of the Acropolis of Athens. Happily, I was able to step out and take a picture. At that moment, all my swirling thoughts about architectural columns and spinal columns suddenly gelled. So far, I had learned that columns in …
Early on Saturday morning two weeks ago, I walked up the stairs of the Duroc Metro station in Paris thinking: “You’re 70 years old. Isn’t it time you stopped doing things that scare you?” I was on my way to a seminar with Noelle Perez. For someone who works in the world of natural posture, …