Back Pain

What is the Gokhale Method?

The Gokhale Method is an innovative, posture-based nonsurgical approach to treating and preventing back and neck pain founded by Esther Gokhale (Go-clay), whose own challenging journey with back pain led her to investigate posture as a treatment. Our approach looks to the primal posture of non-industrialized cultures worldwide to re-learn healthy, sustainable posture and movement for sitting, standing, sleeping, bending, and walking. We combine hands-on instruction with practical advice for incorporating ancestral posture into our modern daily lives and have brought many people life-changing results.

Our techniques teach you how to decompress the spinal column, reducing pressure on discs and nerves and improving or eliminating a wide range of spine-related ailments. By gently realigning the musculoskeletal system, the Gokhale Method helps you learn to improve your quality of life by reducing or eliminating joint pain, preventing joint degeneration, increasing stamina, flexibility, and energy, reducing stress, and improving circulation and breathing, helping you look and feel more confident. Once you have learned the basic principles, your everyday activities will once again become therapeutic.

What you'll achieve

Sleep in comfort

Safe, sustainable sleeping postures help reduce or eliminate back and neck pain, improving sleep quality and duration and opening the way for the multiple health, mood, and energizing benefits of restful sleep.

Sit in a healthy way

Sitting can actually be restorative for your back and neck. Our techniques help elongate your spine and eliminate pain from the unhealthy hunched posture many use in office or academic settings.

Walk actively again

When was the last time you walked comfortably? Our technique teaches you an entirely new way of using your body to make walking safe, gentle, and sustainable.

Stand without pain

Our method for elongating the spine while standing erect helps decompress the spine and relieve pressure on the discs. You can finally learn how to “stand up straight” without straining, in a healthy way.

Our Services

Free Workshop

Through this 1-hour introductory lesson, you’ll get a hands-on approach to the Gokhale Method, either in-person or online. The results are often immediate and last a lifetime.

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Initial Consultation

Sign up for a 45-minute Initial Consultation with one of our teachers to receive a comprehensive assessment of your needs and to set specific goals for your posture journey.

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Foundations Course

Our signature offering. The Gokhale Method Foundations Course consists of six 45-minute lessons introducing all of our core techniques in a small-group setting.

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