Why posture matters (the answer might surprise you)

You’ve heard about the importance of posture - how it impacts your mood, breathing, spine, etc. Frankly, that part of posture can be a bit bland, which is why you end up not terribly concerned about it until you glance in the mirror and look hunched over. Or until your neck hurts and you can’t pick up your child. Or your back hurts and you have to sit with all sorts of contraptions to be in an ‘ergonomic’ position.

But you know what matters more than that? It’s how posture shapes your inner experience.

Posture is how you interact with the world.

It’s how you animate your body.

It’s how you take up the space - how you matter.

It’s how you pay attention to others.

It’s the way you organize yourself to be present.

When you organize the whole of yourself in a way that connects you to the forces larger than you (gravity, light, sound), you expand your presence.

You inhabit your body in a new way. You don't just take a new posture, you become a new posture. Feeling and meaning intersect in your body to dictate the new posture you become.

In my book “When Things Stick: Untangling Your Body From Old Patterns, you learn new concepts that take you into your new posture.

You learn:

*how to feel your internal support
*how to find your power without strain
*how to find your ease of breath
*how to move forward
*how to take up your space

It's not mere data - it's your living breathing body that speaks back to you and says

"You're supported."
"You're safe."
"You're capable."
"You're more than you think you can be."

You'll trust it because you'll feel it. You won't have to fake it to create it.

Are you ready to find your personal power, the posture you were meant to be?

Purchase the book to learn more.

Top 3 Posture Mistakes

Are you making one of these top 3 posture mistakes?

1. Thinking posture is what you do instead what you feel.
2. Fighting the support that is built into the human system.
3. Focusing on one area instead of taking a global approach.

If you've read my book When Things Stick: Untangling Your Body from Old Patterns there is of course something that you 'do'. But the change that endures is recognizing that what you feel is stability, power, ease - what that means in your life and becoming familiar with how you get there.

Think of a common situation during your normal day when you typically feel defeated, overwhelmed or in need of support. Where does that feeling express in your body? Can you feel the position you take when you feel you have to do everything, that you have no support?

Can you instead organize your pelvis as if you are about to take a seat? Not in a way where anyone outside can see, but internally, make that postural change and notice what happens?

It's a simple shift, but changes your entire spine and gives you access to your ankles. Do you feel it?

Your body is designed to offer you specific support that is highlighted by understanding the 3 Keys. How do you organize yourself to take advantage of the internal support your body creates when it works with gravity, instead of against it?

That is a concept that many of us need to learn again and again, because this level of habit is deeply ingrained. But it's a surprisingly quick fix. Knowing when to use that fix when you need it is part of what you learn in my book (read an excerpt HERE).