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I’m Christine, and I live in a retirement community. We have an average age of 78, and I’m almost there! In the community I see so many issues with walking and mobility. For example, I’ve been in a hiking group with the same friends for about 15 years, and we've aged together. I’ve seen them go through an increasing number of procedures for knee replacements, hip replacements, back surgeries. When I then started to have some issues in my knee with arthritis, I thought… I don't want that.
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This Posture Awareness Month, I’m sharing two techniques to help you experience upright ease when sitting without a back rest. For many students, learning that you can be both upright and relaxed is something of a revelation. Most of us associate good posture with stiffness, and relaxation with slouching. Yet the body is designed for a third option: upright ease.
May is Posture Awareness Month. This gives us a fine opportunity to check in with how we hold ourselves. Of course it’s important to understand what good posture is, something that is shockingly lacking in modern times. Once we understand healthy posture conceptually, awareness and checking in can do wonders for our health and vigor.
Esther Gokhale explains the many proven benefits of dance for physical and mental health, and how it delivers much needed healthy posture reminders.
Esther Gokhale writes on what astronauts’ weightlessness reveals about bone density, spinal health, and how to care for your spine here on Earth.
Esther Gokhale shows the benefits of stretchsitting to wellness and yoga host Lizzie Lasater in a clip from their YouTube video, Is Sitting Aging You?
On International Women’s Day, March 8, there will be worldwide celebrations of achievement, courage, and resilience. This blog post contributes by exploring how healthy posture can support and express these qualities in a lasting, authentic way.
Think about all the things that happen in your kitchen. You're orchestrating ingredients—chopping, dicing, grating, sautéing, steaming, roasting. You're wielding an impressive array of gadgets: grinders, mixers, air fryers, microwaves, dishwashers, ovens. You're navigating spaces from floor-level drawers to overhead cupboards, hoisting grocery bags, cantilevering heavy pots, and balancing precarious stacks of dishes.
There's one essential component we don’t think about much—until it starts complaining. Our own body.
As the world tunes in to the Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina from February 6–22, we’ll marvel at skiers flying downhill, skaters carving ice, and athletes who’ve trained for years to make a few minutes look effortless. We know about the grueling workouts—in the gym, on the track, on the snow. What we rarely consider are the thousands of quiet hours in between: how these athletes sit, walk, stand, and recover when they’re not officially training or competing.