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Posture and Breathing

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2013-05-13 14:58

There was an excellent article in the New York Times Business section for 5/11/13 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/business/soothing-back-pain-by-learning-how-to-sit-again.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 on the posture specialist Esther Gokhale. This old dog has learned a new trick at age 70.

Sit with your pelvis rolled forward and your buttocks stuck out behind. Balance your spine above your pelvis, not leaning either forward or back. Hunch your shoulders and then bring them back and down. Lightly pull up on the back of your neck at the hair-line to bring your head high and upright.

I find the balance point for my head by keeping it upright and moving it slightly from side to side and then back and forward. At the equilibrium point, my sinuses open, my brow unfurrows and breathing is easy.

Then I inhale in a single gesture, expanding from my back at my waist diagonally upward and forward so that everything around my waist moves out and my chest is lifted on top. Then I let the air flow out by its own weight.

I haven't bought the book or taken the training (which is expensive), but I feel the benefits.

Ken Shaw

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Re: Posture and Breathing

Author: Taras12
Date: 2013-05-13 21:38

A similar posture can be found on-line at a Buddhist Meditation site.

Tristan

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