Women’s Empowerment Through Posture
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by Esther Gokhale
1M ago
Esther Gokhale February, 2024 As we approach International Women’s Day on March 8, I would like to share a few observations regarding gender and health made over the past three decades of teaching posture.  Does gender affect back pain? Back pain and the posture distortions behind it are very democratic—people of all ages, activity levels, geographic locations, and gender are affected by cultural postural distortions. That said, some modern posture guidelines and expectations are gender-specific, and some of them affect women disproportionately. We will discuss posture guidelines for men ..read more
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How to Fix a Tight Psoas
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by Esther Gokhale
2M ago
Esther Gokhale January, 2024 When students first meet with a Gokhale Method® teacher they are sometimes surprised to learn that one of the reasons for their back pain is a tight psoas muscle. What does this little-known muscle, embedded deep within our bodies, have to do with back pain? And what do we need to do to have it recede in the background and leave our backs alone? Get to know your psoas muscle  Psoas major (pronounced so-as) is a deep-lying muscle with a downwards trajectory through the abdomen. There can be some individual variation, but it usually originates from T12-L4, and ..read more
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The Gokhale Method Around the World: Canberra, Australia, with Tegan Kahn
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by Tegan Kahn
2M ago
Tegan Kahn January, 2024 Since the pandemic we are delighted to have resumed teacher training and welcomed 12 new teachers to the Gokhale Method community in Europe and the U.S. We are also steadily growing our roots in the Southern Hemisphere. Below, Australia-based Teacher Tegan Kahn shares the story of how and why she decided to train. One New Year’s Day many years ago, I made a resolution to “have better posture.” This was back before I had kids; when I had time and energy to devote to grand plans! But, like most New Year’s Resolutions, it fizzled out pretty quickly. For several days, I r ..read more
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Make 2024 Your Year to Say Goodbye to Back Pain
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by Esther Gokhale
3M ago
Esther Gokhale January, 2024 It’s early January. New Year’s resolutions have swung into action, and many of them involve improving our health. With the impetus of a fresh start, we throw ourselves into ditching poor habits and cultivating better ones. It’s no surprise that January sees the highest gym sign-ups and enrollments for dietary regimens! Other resolutions include getting more sleep, meditating, or learning a new skill—self-care for the mind as well as the body.    Most of us will have made a New Year’s resolution in at least one of these areas.  Posture—a missing pill ..read more
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Open, Grounded, Energized: An Exciting New Chapter in My Posture Journey
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by emilyagnew
3M ago
Emily Agnew December, 2023 Hi, I’m Emily Agnew, and excited to share my posture journey. I first attended a weekend Gokhale Foundations course in 2016, to address a painfully stiff neck. I loved it. I also found it intense. To incorporate all I was learning about body mechanics, I had to concentrate so hard that I'd emerge from class feeling like my brain had overheated. On top of that, I was rather sore in unexpected places, from using my muscles in new ways.  Long story short, I was happy knowing I was doing the right thing for my body. But I hardly had the bandwidth to notice any une ..read more
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Align Your Rib Cage and Solve Your Back Tension
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by Esther Gokhale
3M ago
Esther Gokhale December, 2023 Choose your remedies carefully There are many approaches to stretching tight back muscles that involve rounding the back. Though these exercises give temporary relief, we recommend against them because they threaten the spinal discs, nerves, and ligaments. They can also result in the back muscles contracting even more tightly to stabilize the area.  Rounded stretching exercises increase existing upper back curvature (hunching) while pulling aggressively on tight soft tissues and ligaments. Our tissues respond better to sustained, gentle realignment to make h ..read more
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My Gratitude to My Teachers
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by Esther Gokhale
4M ago
Esther Gokhale November, 2023 This Thanksgiving I would like to honor two people who profoundly influenced the development of the Gokhale Method®. Thanksgiving is a time to acknowledge those who lit your way. Image: Unsplash Noëlle Perez-Christiaens (1925–2019) was my most important influence on this path, and my gateway to inputs from the eminent yoga teacher B.K.S. Iyengar (1918–2014), the French anatomist André Dalmas (1910–1999), and their numerous discoveries. Noëlle was a beautician by background, who developed an avid interest in yoga. This passion took her to India and B.K.S. Iyengar ..read more
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Making Music with Healthy Posture: Part 1: Pianists
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by Esther Gokhale
4M ago
Esther Gokhale November, 2023 According to research a shocking two-thirds of professional musicians live in chronic pain. Those of you who are music makers may have felt challenged at times by the lengthy periods of sitting or standing required for practice and rehearsal. Continuously holding an instrument, maintaining a playing position, or just standing holding sheet music, can, sooner or later, trouble your neck, shoulder, or wrist. Playing can become a physical challenge rather than an activity integrated with the music making. This graph shows the distribution of pain reported in a grou ..read more
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My Three Favorite Posture Podcasts
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by Esther Gokhale
5M ago
Esther Gokhale October, 2023 Podcasts are one of my favorite media. It’s hard to reimagine a time when you couldn’t take your pick and enjoy their entertaining and compelling content. Over the years I have been invited to be interviewed for many podcasts about the Gokhale Method®, and for this blog post I would like to introduce you to three of my favorites, which I hope you will now enjoy if you haven’t done so already. My Body Odyssey A recent interview was for the Fluent Knowledge series, My Body Odyssey. Fluent Knowledge introduces their audience to experts who convey knowledge on importa ..read more
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Clare’s Gokhale Method® Success Story
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by Clare Rosenfield
5M ago
Excerpts from an interview with Clare Rosenfield October, 2023 In January and February this year I took the Gokhale Method Elements course, which consists of 18 brief (13 minute) but potent lessons. I would like to share my experience of the Gokhale Method with you in this blog post. My goals were to find out how to sit, stand, and walk well, so that I don’t overstress the scoliotic parts of my back. I was also in search of more comfortable and beneficial sleeping positions. I felt I needed guidance to help me develop a better sense of my body posture and alignment. To be able to do a one-on ..read more
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