Have you ever spent countless of hours at a doctor’s therapy office or the gym repeating exercises aimed at relaxing or strengthening your aching muscles and joints, hoping it would get you out of pain and fix your posture?But nothing made a lasting positive impact on your well-being...Does it feel crazy that your body seems to always revert back to your old patterns of slouching, stiffening and tensing up? You correct yourself for a while, but soon enough, you’re right back w ..read more

What is good head balance? Good head balance happens at your ‘top joint’ (a-o-joint), which is located at your spine high up between your ears. Moving your head from there keeps you out of most posture trouble.But because a head follows it's owners attention, and much of it being constantly highjacked by the beeping and flashing of the devices in front of you, your head gets pushed forward and down into them. Why is that trouble?Because your neck and shoulder mu ..read more

Yes and No.​Yes, exercising can provide a great release from the demands of a stressful day. After a good workout or yoga session, you’re likely to feel recharged, more relaxed, and mentally refreshed. Regular physical exercise builds strength, resilience, and can be a powerful mental reset. When we exercise, we get a moment to clear the mind, which sometimes allows us to recognize certain beliefs and thought patterns that are lodged in mind and emotions and hold ten ..read more

​Holistic posture training starts with an important and crucial mindset shift:Posture cannot be "exercised" into shape—it can only be minded.This means that strengthening your core or back muscles won’t solve the issue of slouching or relieve persistent neck and shoulder tension. Instead, there are deeper, more concrete patterns at play that need to be understood and addressed.These patterns are habits ingrained in how you move and coordinate your body, and my role is to ..read more

The Alexander Technique teaches us that the awareness of our own body can be a profound tool for change. This growing awareness is, in fact, one of the most valuable outcomes of the practice. At first glance, it might seem simple—just noticing how we stand, sit, or move throughout the day. But the deeper we go, the more we realize how connected every part of our body is to our overall well-being. For me, the journey into this self-awareness has been deeply transformative and it cont ..read more

One of the most common misconceptions about muscle tension is the belief that if you let go, you will fall apart. This fear is rooted in the idea that your body is rigid and fragile, while in reality your body is designed to move powerfully as a whole, dynamic and in fluid patterns, spirally. You are made for adaptability and movement, not stiffness. Taking this fact to heart will help you discover your innate ability for balance and support as you move through life. But if there is ..read more

Do you have unexplained dry, irritated eyes? Blurred vision? Neck and back pain, headaches?  If so, your digital gadgets may be (at least partly) to blame. The results of a new survey released at the Consumer Electronics Show by the Vision Council, a trade group representing the nation's eye care products, shows that most Americans are overexposing their eyes to technology.  Nearly 90 percent said they spend two or more hours on a digital device each day, and many spend significantly more time on them. One in 10 reported spending at least 75 percent of their waking hours looking at a s ..read more

A recent article in the Huffington Post made me realize how society never talks about slouching posture as a cultural act of defiance beyond the teenage years. But grown-up artist Sarah Lucas does just that, and I like the artistic expression of it. If we don't talk about the devastating health effects of habitual slouching but look at it as an artistic standpoint, we get an interesting new perspective: ".....Defiant slumping dates back at least to 1913 with the “debutante slouch,” a self-conscious craze (documented around the time by the Library of Congress and The New York Times) us ..read more

"'Having Good Posture' does not work, but 'Being In Good Alignment' does."​ If you are like most people, you sit quite a bit during the day.  Sitting can be difficult to maintain if your back is hurting, your spine is rounding and your head feels heavy when you are getting tired.   This workshop will address fundamental principles of balance, ease and alignment. Learn how to sit, stand and walk with less effort, more support, and more comfort. For more Information go to: www.walkinbalance.net/workshop-sitting-standing-and-walking-with-ease.html ..read more

by Michaelle Edwards, YogAlign ​ "Hamstring stretching has been listed as a remedy for sciatica, back, hip, and leg pain. Fitness and yoga courses instruct people how to stretch their hamstrings by bending forward from standing or lying with the knees straight and ankles flexed creating a targeted stretch for the hamstring muscles. ​ Stretching the hamstring muscles will not make them longer because the tension or contraction of a muscle is under control of the nervous system. You simply cannot make a muscle longer by pulling on it. Hamstrings do not exist in isolation from the rest of the b ..read more