Find your primal posture and sit without back pain: Esther Gokhale at TEDxStanford
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I am a bodywork and movement instructor. Have been following Esther for years now. Her work is so simple, and so ground breaking. We've normalized hideous posture, then go to doctors for back and neck pain. Try it. You'll like it.
This lady's method has literally saved my spine.
what?
have you read her book?
save my spine too
@@gorgec6862 omigord - won't SOMEBODY think of my spine ... !?!?!?
@@ultimobile I think of your spine :)
As a chiropractor I know that she is basically right about this. It has always been interesting to me that back pain is nearly ubiquitous in the west. Yet, it has been know by researchers for some time that back pain is actually quite rare in all remaining indigenous cultures. Most people have assumed the problem is that we sit too much and walk too little. While that is probably true, it is not the whole story. A developing theory is that of the "J" spine which she mentions in this video. Our textbooks teach that the "S" spine is normal, but it may actually be the source of our pain. The "S" spine has these dramatic reciprocating curves in each region, sacral, then lumbar, then thoracic, then cervical. New research suggests that these indigenous peoples have these curves but to a much lesser degree, other than the sacral curve which is fused in place at an early age. So, their spines curve up from the sacrum and rise like a tower from there. It is a fascinating thing.
thanks for the informative comment:)
Your intelligence makes me want to marry you. Also, I saw all things Grateful Dead on your page as well. Thus, marry me please.
Allow me to disagree with you Richards. You mention that low back pain is ubiquitous in the western world. You are wrong. The prevelance of low back pain seems to be high in low and middle income economies as well according to WHO (Duthey 2013). Secondly, low back pain existed for many many years, even in ancient civilizations. Hippocrates or Galen would also treat low back pain but most usual of specific etiology such a fractures. Throughout the centuries until mid-nineties, scientists would have no idea what low back pain is however (Waddell 2004). They would consider it as a phlegm or hemus of the body. Therefore, what I am saying is that low back pain existed from ancient times (maybe because we conquered the bipedal position, who knows ?). HOWEVER (i use caps to empasize) low back disability is UNIQUE to the modern western world. But low back pain and low back disability are not always correllated and do not follow a linear relationship. What we really know about low back pain is that we know NOTHING. Rest are asumptions unfortunately
dude c'mon
nothing provides confidence like an endorsement from a highly respected, thoroughly trustworthy professional like a chiropractor
Oh man, I bet she is the best and nicest and most honest mom ever. Look at those facial expression that could cure even the most cynical man. And listen to her tone, so easy to the ear, you cannot help but listen.
Milf?
4:24 for how to sit primal posture.
duckificationish I think the entire talk was splendid and completely worth watching
thanks boss
Darren Pauli You are literally a hero! LoL Thanks!
Theres nothing primal about it
D It was six minutes?
Perhaps these issues are really just a reflection of our lost ability to truly be present in the moment. To actually FEEL our bodies. Our society nowadays has lost the ability to even be aware of our bodies, so many people just slump into a seat and think nothing of it as they are too busy watching a screen, until they experience pain - and by that time they're so far into poor posture they have no idea how to fix it because it has unknowingly become their 'norm'... We really need to re-learn how to move again, and that involves being present in our bodies to know when we're moving or sitting in a way that is not right, BEFORE it caused pain.
Agree that movement is key. Even in the "correct" posture she demonstrates here, one would not be comfortable in that position all day along. Listen to your body and trust what it tells you.
Esther Gokhale's tips are incredibly helpful! Thank you for sharing this! If we may add, proper posture also helps reduce the risk of developing carpal tunnel syndrome.
This has literally changed my life
Holy Cow - I tried it while watching this video; and the pain in my back is GONE!!
the same with me
good advice I'm a professional driver so I drive long hours and yes it works.
This works! I am so very grateful for this! I changed to this way of sitting a couple of days ago and the extreme pain that I had is gone! GONE! I'm amazed.
I recently began working as a share driver and would feel as if I were handicapped every time I stood up outside of the car. The pain slowed me down considerably and I couldn't quickly move to help my riders with luggage. or to refuel. It was discouraging, I felt so old and unattractive, and uncomfortable. I was trying to help myself by tucking my pelvis and tightening my abdominals. Apparently that was all wrong.
Luckily I saw this talk. The next day I purchased a support that is meant for the lumbar back at the dollar store. I push it up so that it sits higher and I let that curve in my back happen, and voila!
The difference is truly life changing. Yes, my tummy sticks out more, but who cares! My back doesn't hurt!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Throughout the years, my own practices and observances have taught me proper posture is the only way to optimal health. A healthy spine is everything 😊
Thank you for this! Great content in just a few minutes. You're also a fantastic speaker.
Best speaker about posture so far
Her technique has certainly helped me and I have plenty of back issues.
As soon as I did this, I can feel my shoulders relax into a posterior position, my abs and even my quads tighten while sitting. I can also feel much more pressure on my right buttock... I have a functional limb length discrepancy and I have always slouched towards my left buttock. Fantastic stuff
Esther Gokale changed my life. Her strategies made me pain-free after years of trying various medical treatments to no avail.
Oh my freaking back! Listen to her, ppl, that's good advice! I miss the days when my back was good and pain free. 15 years of "sitting on my tail" for work ruined my spine.
My solution is to learn not to do the things that cause bad posture, rather than trying to add new effort to a muscular system that is already imbalanced. This is what one does in Alexander Technique lessons.
+Lawrence Smith What would you say was done wrong in the video?
Not everyone has a posterior pelvic tilt. There are many with an Anterior tilt as well and modifying their sitting position would be very different. A professional Orthopedic Doctor, Physical therapist, or Massage Therapist (and many other types of body workers) would be able to more correctly identify an individuals needs and help to modify posture either manually in session or with exercise.
Which type of a body worker are you?
Pretty much everyone can physiologically anterior and posterior tilt their lumbopelvic region.
@@quara0n89 until 1 becomes dominant
I already had a strong tendancy at 6 to anterior tilt. I only know now cos i remember ballet teacher screaming at me to tuck my belly in (which meant she was only happy wiv me when i couldnt breathe) i only found out aged 36
30yrs of solid anterior pelvic tilt.
I can now after 12mnths get into neutral without being tense, but cannot maintain it. I can now go the opp to anterior, but only under great strain n pain in my groin
I have v tight hips after 30yrs despite horseriding
I have figured out a very simple method to finding your ideal posture, whether standing or sitting. This method may sound a tad crude, but I encourage anyone brave enough to try this.
Long story short, a few months ago I started suffering from immense pelvic pain, which I could also feel in my lower back. Years of bad sitting posture can of course cause this, but in my case it was also stress related, so there really was no quick fix. After a week of daily pain and constipation, and the stretching exercises doing nothing at all, I decided to try something a little bit different: butt plugs. My theory was, that if I instinctively tighten myself all the time, the best way to address this would be to create a constant counter-pressure, which in time would teach my pelvis to stay relaxed all the time.
This all may sound like a stretch (pun intended), but my theory actually worked perfectly. Not only is my body more relaxed now, but the plugs actually reveal all the unnecessary muscle tension, whatever it is your doing. Whether it's bad sitting posture, or stiff walking, your body feels it as a tension in your anus. I've watched countless videos on Alexander Technique without ever understanding, what intuitive body movement is supposed to be like, but with a plug you don't even need intuition, you're just simply learning to move around without causing any pain in your anus. In a week or two I already noticed my posture changing into what I saw in this video.
Pretty much everyone suffers from a tight pelvic floor nowadays, so I encourage anyone to try this (or other measures) to eliminate these issues. What many people don't necessarily know, is that a lot of the mental turmoil people go through (stress, neuroses, anxiety), also has a physical component to it, mainly a tight pelvis. Fixing the physical symptoms is, at least in my opinion, way more efficient than just going to a therapist, because you're actually changing the way you experience your body.
+CountAbel thanks for sharing; this was courageous and creative! I use a leaning seat at work; along the lines of Keens Focal furniture; it's been great but I do often still feel some tension
+Anogoya Dagaati I'm not sure if a leaning seat is good or bad. I've had best results with a saddle chair, as it tends to push your buttocks behind a little bit. I'm still recommending the plugs though. Just buy one with a width of 1,5 - 2 fingers, and length of at least a finger. After carefully inserting it (no forcing), just walk around with it and try different sitting positions to figure out when there's the least amount of felt resistance.
You'll quickly notice that any extra tension, for example stiff shoulders or otherwise over-corrected posture, is gonna make the plug feel painful. Instead of thinking any theories or concepts on posture, just feel your body and try to find the way to be that doesn't cause any extra pain.
Another good idea is to start kung fu. Basically all kung fu comes down to body mechanics, so the same rules that apply to using force in self defence also apply to everyday movement. It's also a fun and practical way to open both mental and physical locks, as well as learning how to defend yourself. A lot bigger and more cost efficient package than many people realize.
Great recommendation and explanation on your concept. I can't afford Kung Fu right now; in terms of both time and cost but I'll certainly explore the others. I'm suffering the remnants of hunching over in my youth trying to be 'cool'. Correct posture is am finding increasing, priceless.
Read my post.
yeah.. no thanks
Terrible editing showing audience instead of Esther when shes instructing you how to sit. Now i don't know what she was showing. Also sitting in a chair is part of the problem, at least shes showing a way around it as chairs are our only comfortable option in 1st world countries. Does anyone have a better idea, or should we just go back to squatting?
Simon Simpson You should squat more often anyway. Even when you poop. Am talking about the deep squat.
Simon Simpson ... look up "primal posture" and you'll find some thousands of results. And, boy, it's my opinion that this short demonstration is not nearly enough to learn to sit properly, but maybe I'm wrong.
She explains it in detail in her book, along with other techniques
She does a lot of showing - (and shows it well) - the bad postures and the good - b u t how to sit - she doesn't have a good chair - she doesn't demonstrate the sitting position all that well - bunch up your clothes? The chair that she didn't choose is the good chair? Not very well done at All.
The good chair is her design and is $560. She was using a cheap chair to demonstrate the concept. Invest in the book and it will become evident.
Good work, great message and answer to sitting problem.
Oh! This presentation was very interesting. From today onwards I'm going to use those advises in my daily life! :)
How's it's going?
@@anmolmehrotra923 he is gone
I think she's right, but I didn't get how to do it😟!
Did you find a clearer guide?
Just take the instruction about positioning your hip/pelvis in the right angle. Thats the key. Incline it in such a way that the imaginary tail is pointed in the upward angle rather than downward. Your shoulders and posture will align automatically. Try this and keep exercising to maintain this posture.
the most important way is knowing how to release the tension at the pelvis girdles from the front forward back to downward and the imbalance between two sides ( the bulging of the ligerment binding the sides together).
I've been trying to get comfortable sitting on the floor and as soon as she said "imagine they have tails" I thought about having a tail, not wanting to sit on it, moved my pelvis accordingly, and criss cross on the floor became 10x more comfortable
Her book totally saved my back!
Keep your chest UP
Thats it, all fixed...forward head,round shoulders, round back...all. So keep than in mind and eventually your posture will feel natural
No you clearly didn’t listen to anything she said or read the book. Having the chest up is a strained temporary posture position that actually adds dramatic curves to the spine by adding a curve in the lower back and placing the rib cage in a flared position. If anything your chest should be “up” but not forward, meaning up while also anchored inward.
Wow. I followed her technique sitting in the chair I could really feel the difference. I need to find her office or training videos if possible. I really need to work on my posture.
Best ever backpain solution thank you sosososo much.
agree !!
I love her voice
It's the only I like about her, because I completely disagree with her work.
Thanks from Italy Esther a great hug
Ciao
Turn your chair around and sit backwards like a rebel.
Arthur Ponzarelli lol
Actually YES, feels so good.
Very good material. Primal posture is a good branding phrase too.
3:29 It's always astounding to see how much we can learn by simply observing nature and our ancestry primates. That's why evolutionary science holds the key to understanding who we truly are and how we should live.
Algore Daemon yeah like taking off your shoes because they are what’s actually ruining your knees
I'm sure people see ballerinas as being stiff (I certainly did) but what my ballet teacher taught us is quite similar to this. They wanted us to shift our hips only and elongate our spine. We are, to a point, rigid in our stature, but we must also have grace. I think these two factors in posture have a lot to do with the perfect, almost doll-like, gracefulness ballerinas have.
Intersting reference to the image of baby being carried at 2:48. Does it matter that at this stage of development a human child has not yet formed a lumbar curve? And that the position of the pelvis is related to the position and structure of the spine? I'm genuinely curious about this.
I'm not sure if the 'answer' beings that early in life? It's a good question.
Also the infant in the car seat: How else are we going to carry our children at that very early age from place to place in a car? If I had it my way, I'll carry my infant from place to place while riding regally on a back of a horse....
We should perhaps start redesigning our cars, cities, ways of getting from place to place too? All important considerations.
I wanna know what the other steps are after this baby step as it has helped me heaps!
Bless you.
It's better to sit on floor cross legged and work like we do in east . Chairs changes body's centre of mass thus creating unnecessary stress on some body parts . More over blood circulation is also hindered in chair position
I had a J spine but had some mild back pain so then tried to make my spine an S (because it's regarded as healthy spine) Now I have EVEN WORSE back issues :(
Working my way back to a J spine now, I think it really is the way the spine is meant to be.
Picture not of ubang tribe of Borneo Indonesia but of the last nomads of Borneo the Penans. They are hunter gatherer who live mainly in Sarawak , (East Malaysia and Brunei) on the island of Borneo , rather than Kalimantan the Indonesian side
Thank you Madame...great video
Gracias!!
sitting correctly is like a massage all day!!!
Someone needs to invent furniture to correct our posture.
that's genius
Either squat or lie down.
She was apparently promoting it in this video, if you look closely atcthe products that she quickly showed before settling on the towel
This would not work. I have scoliosis and wore a back brace for 3 years. The few moments I was out of it I had no strength in my back or abdomen whatsoever. Recently I have gotten out of my brace for good and have been taking physical therapy classes for months-costing thousands of dollars with good insurance- to help me function again. Of course, many of these problems are specific to scoliosis and bracing, but the overall idea is the same; having something hold you up to fix your posture will only make yourself weaker longterm and will make it harder and harder to achieve normal-ness as time progresses. Take it from me, you don’t want the ever lasting pain it would bring you in the long run.
Thirteen Pandas She calls it holding up your posture but the implement she showed doesn’t do that what it does is prevent your spine from rolling, it’s a misuse of words but definitely the concepts she talked about should be of good use as long as you don’t confuse them with the advice people give of what is bad for you. I don’t have scoliosis but I’ve suffered from bad posture for pretty much all of my life so I get it my muscles get sore and I felt like a bobble head every time I got in the car but the technique she showed helped.
Also, I’ll tell you that it’s a misunderstanding that doing what she did means using less muscle to prop you up, it’s like saying people with good posture ( the Indonesians in the picture are lazy), having that straight posture will align your muscles in the right way so that they hold you up as opposed to firing your muscles hard in bad positioning which will make your posture worse or cement your posture even more into that position.
What is key in this exercise is to elonge your back while your sitting, but in a relaxed way. There are really good chairs out there that can give you that extra hook where you can "hang your spine". Humanscale Freedom, by Humanscale Furniture; and HON Ignition 2.0, by HON Furniture, are very good examples. In New York City, they are available in Manhattan Office Design.
Haha, almost fooled me that wasn't an advert until the last line. Then I checked your username hahahaha. Good try.
Herman Miller, Steelcase and Haworth are far better brands.
Esther, potentially a thin yoga mat on the chair might provide enough friction to help maintain the decompressed lumbar and thoracic spine. Great exercise btw. I did feel the tightness. Very grateful. Find Root cause, Apply permanent fix. Namaste 🙏💐❤️☮️
Fantastic, thanks very much.x
The best fix is re learning the squat and use it as rest position. That's it
Padmasana (lotus pose) and Sukhasana .... best sitting postures of all time
Great lecture! Absolutely eye-opening. Thanks!
I need more exercises. Where can I find them?
BTW, the dress ist beautiful.
She has a book called 8 Steps to a Pain Free Back!
For many of the reasons that she describes, in western culture the para-spinal muscles atrophy. I think that in the name of "relaxing the back muscles," she does a disservice to something needed by nearly everyone we see or work with: strengthening those muscles in poses like Salabasana, and later, in Virabadrasana III (humorously referred to yesterday by a person I know as "eka pada salabasana"). Still, happy that someone popular is disseminating this message to a wide audience! My two rupees.
would love a video on how to sit on the floor with a floor desk and write, without neck pain
It's possible, but rather uncomfortable and impractical.
@@StardustLegacyFighter so the best is a chair?
Thank You for sharing this wisdom. Scoliosis Gym invented algorithmic scoliosis exercises to straighten scoliosis.
I'll Comment on this after one month..really motivated.
INTERVIEWER: sir, what are you doing, i only told you to sit down.
ME: yeah, its what I'm doing ma'am, give me a minute or two
the exercise is at 4:27 in case you forget it (note to self)
Yeah, it doesn't work well with my comfy chairs.
Really informative :)
that was really informative
Worth watching it!
That lovely smart lady has a great future behind her ;D
Check out Alexander Technique, sit on sitting bones and how to get up and down from sitting position.
that was amazing
i love this
where do i find the rest of the steps?
Good presentation. While much was covered in only 6 minutes, I think she could greatly benefit from taking some Alexander Technique lessons. The Alexander Technique provides a more comprehensive, thorough and accurate view on how we are designed to balance & move (what good posture is) and how to dissolve the negative postural habits of excess tension and collapse that we've acquired.
Brett Hershey so much to people who constantly want to lecture others before getting informed of what they really do :-(
Heike Angelguidance Barbara B She's says that to be upright and relaxed is a well positioned pelvis. I agree, that's part of the equation, but not all. You've got to consider and emphasize the spine and its relation to the head at the atlantic-occiptal joint. And while she points out that some tuck their pelvis forward (sit on their tails), which can cause problems, she's advocating anteverting the pelvis. This is dangerous advice. Tipping the pelvis forward causes many problems, such a lordosis, a contraction in the lower back. It's just not how we're designed. You don't want the pelvis titled either way. You want a neutral pelvis, the spine lengthened along the natural curves and the head releasing off the top of the spine. So I'm glad she's taken some AT lessons, but I believe she would benefit from more or perhaps more with different instructors.
Anteverting your pelvis from retroverting to neutral is a good thing, but it is far from a cure-all and not good if you tilt it beyond neutral. There are many forms of habitual misuse. Alexander Technique is a cure-all for all habitual misuse patterns (not diseases, deformations, etc).
By the way, I'm also surprised at some of the examples on her website of 'good use' - I see disturbing amount of tension in the gardener and head jutted forward by the head rest in the driver.
Brett Hershey FYI, someone (this guy) read your observations and really appreciated the critique.
Still, I feel like offering friendly advice... I think your message would have been much-more-effective if you wouldn't have said, "She should go read this..." That's bad form. I would have just opened with the critique, "Well, that's all well and good, but here's what she didn't say..." You can't expect the average TH-camr to critically analyze, in a few minutes, the ideas that you sat down and (presumably) thought about for many hours (thousands of hours, if you include prerequisite material). You're going to get bad reactions from less-literate people when you say, "She should go read this (complex [to the layperson]) scientific material, so that she will realize that she is not giving the best possible advice," because a bunch of TH-camrs who lack the capacity to quickly verify your claim, are going to say, "Hey, wait a minute, you don't know she hasn't read that! What do you even mean?!" -- (or, even worse, you'll get someone who points out that you objectively *were* being presumptuous, thus damaging your authority even further in the eyes of the naive passerby) -- at which point you're going to have to explain yourself, *anyway* -- so you might as well have done it in the first place, if you're willing and able to do so at all (which, in my view, you were; she was very-neglectful of the spine-neck-head connection).
If you want to give a shout-out to the Alexander technique, no one will be upset -- just don't make a presumptuous personal attack out of it. "These ideas are usually described very well by proponents of the Alexander technique." -- and you're done -- not potentially-offensive.
Anyway, good luck, and thanks for the lesson!
EDIT (PS): Apparently it's spelled, "Alexander technique", so I fixed my spelling.
PPS: You might have linked them to this, too:
th-cam.com/video/k1luKAS_Xcg/w-d-xo.html
Im sitting like she told me now, and I can feel my spine slipping back into slot.....its amazing and disgusting!
Amazing
very nice, thank you
Human phenotypes have different shaped skulls. I can't help but think that those differing skulls are likely to sit on top of a variety of spines, for which the advise would be different on a case by case basis. I'm always wary of 'one size fits all' remedies. I imagine there is much value in this lady's method, but maybe not for everyone.
ive been doing 300 good situps a day to help my uneven muscles and posture... also been walking straight up, with my neck between straight and naturally looking, a few degrees forward. Also sleeping in good facing up and my back is dying
Id check out gorillazen
U maybe doin the situps wrong
Or have a muscle imbalance ur not aware of
very good. it is helping me. :-)
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I like the way she presents her ideas, though somewhat sceptical. Its worth pointing out that non-industrialised tribes have a life expectancy of ~50 years and they don't have data collection which would prove this theory. When we say primal most of evolution has taken place in animals that live in a horizontal configuration (not vertical, i.e. standing) - you could argue our spine wasn't build for standing in the first place.
Sitting on chairs in itself is unnatural and something that our bodies were not meant to be doing.
Rahul James Iyer and they make fun of Indians who sit on floor
well how are you supposed to poop without sitting
the indian way
Laying, squatting
ayush tripathi
Yup... need bilateral hip replacement surgery last 9 years, but I still squat in the toilet the Indian way. Can't do it any other way. Though it's getting very difficult now !!
I have been in pain in years been to therapy no relief god I wish I could find some way to feel good again..I have fasciitis, neck, and shoulder joint pain and lower back it all hurts all the time.
Thank u Maam
Huh, so anterior pelvic tilt is good now? Which one is it, I'm so confused?
What about video game playing? You wind up with rounded shoulders because the controller is small and you have to round your arms to grip the controller which pushes the shoulders forward.
Is this posture just an anterior pelvic tilt which is so common in low back pain?
i have the same thought too
same here
No, it's not. Search "J spine" at NPR, there's a good article about it.
No. In anterior pelvic tilt you create an arch in your lower back. She is saying to do the opposite. i.e. remove the arch and flatten the back.
Yeah this video is misleading and harmful
I do this instinctually due to back pain. "Comfortable" sitting is painful for me.
To truly change your posture you need to work hard on changing the weakness in your muscles and restore the natural position of your joints with physiotherapy. There are no easy tricks. The internet is full of people who will make you feel better about yourself by doing the tiny step towards the big change... you need to devote yourself to the process, instead of pat yourself on the back.
this is a great observation, and in our growing world's we can often find ourselves needing to do more work than just fix how we sit on our butts. keep in mind, building better posture does take the weight and stress off muscles we don't need to use or weren't meant to be used while sitting. When these muscles get the time to relax we can move towards better muscle training in the future, more easily (so think of fixing posture as a first step to fixing the back and spine). there is nothing wrong with suggesting one or two things and being proud of accomplishing that or being validated for changing our habits in things as seemingly simple as sitting.
Agree
Im doin alexander technique n adding yin yoga at home
It took 6mnths of daily efforts to notice change. I grew 2inches in height aged 37!! 12mnths later, theres still work to do, but i believe ive passed the 3/4 point and i feel i look like im in 'normal range' of bad slouching posture now when im relaxed/weak/lacking energy
Indian heritage is what made her think about it. in rural india it's common place.
so the teeter/upside-down inversion tables must be good then! (even more spinal stretching with those!)
take a look about the Alexander Técnique !
I feel back pain after watching this 😀
the reason for the J posture is due to the strong core muscles that they have, which many of us lack. Bad habits like sitting down too much is also the reason for the s shaped spine.
The exercise starts at 4:29
I don't understand, most sources say your butt shouldn't poke outward, as that would be "anterior pelvic tilt", no?
It also seems to be much more common to me than the other way around of tucking it in...
+lux lucis It’s more complicated than that. (Isn’t it always?)
If you check a model of a healthy human spinal column, you'll see an s-shaped curve at the bottom. The top part of that is the “lumbar curve.” The vertebrae that curve back and down below it make up the sacrum; they are part of the pelvis. With an upright pelvis, the butt will stick out; the sacral vertebrae point out and down, curving back in to the coccyx (tailbone).
As I understand it, anterior pelvic tilt is when the pelvis is tilted from a healthy position, with lordosis in the lumbar region. The butt sticks way out because the spine is tilting too much there, creating the swayback look.
But many, many people think that good posture means they should tuck their pelvis (or tuck their butt), push their shoulders back, and suck in their gut. It doesn’t; that just places horrible loads on the body. Military training (standing at attention) is an example of this; poor dance training can lead to it, too.
I’m just an amateur who has had to learn about the spine because I have scoliosis and back pain. If you want a more accurate and detailed explanation, check out Katy Bowman’s work. She’s very smart and very good at making information accessible! Her area of expertise is human biomechanics.
Squatting is our primal sitting position.
nice video!
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A forward head can be cause by obstruction to the upper airway.
Fantastic
Cool. I'm gonna work on my back.
I'm 23 and my unhealthy lifestyle gave me the back of a 60 year old, so i'll keep this advice dearly.
+Archibald Belanus holy crap, what did you do?
Hapi djus
Geeking, driving and working with a bad back position. Now it hurts.
+Archibald Belanus If you do a few minutes every morning and night with Kelly Starrett and his MobilityWOD, your pain will go away. Brian Trepanier's video, End 17 Years of Back Pain, works as well.
Archibald if you start doing DAILY corrective exercises you are young enough to fix this issue. Trust me, it might take some physio or another health professional to help guide you if you are lost but the health of your body is well worth the investment. Postural muscle respond to DAILY work aka reps, reps, reps. Not like big muscles that people train at the gym 1-2x a week, find some good stretching and corrective exercises for your spine and even 5-10mins a day will help :)
this is a god-tier ted talk
on god