Posture

If you want to avoid or improve injuries, get to work on your posture. And keep it up.

Because good posture – muscle balance, body awareness, and space in your joints – will solve many of your musculoskeletal problems.

Posture is present at all times: when you’re in bed, when you’re reaching for a glass on a high shelf, and when you and 38 other clowns are crammed into a tiny car: all the everyday activities that characterize your life, Dear Reader.

The reason to study posture isn’t to stand up straight. Tallness and looking good are important effects of taking a posture class, but the real importance of posture is that it makes you move with grace, efficiency, and ease. Good posture creates the least stress on your muscles, joints and organs.

And all that means that you are likely to injure yourself less, recover faster, and be more healthy generally.

You were born knowing how to walk; that’s hard-wired in your DNA. What you weren’t born knowing how to do is to stand or move on two legs without falling over. You probably learned to do that pretty fast and then forgot it was ever a problem, until you slipped on a banana peel – at a moment when you weren’t performing in front of a tent full of children. In the process of learning to walk, move and ride a horse standing backwards in the saddle, you developed habits, some good, some bad.

Habit means you’re unaware of what you’re doing, and that’s why a teacher – and a posture class – are important if you want to improve.

 

You can develop better coordination, balance, and grace. And you can have a good time doing it. I teach online posture classes all year round. They always involve stretch, strength, coordination and guided meditation.

Click here:  https://www.georgerusselldc.com/public-classes/

You’ve put it off long enough.