The Foundations Course is a core offering of the Gokhale Method. In six 90-minute lessons, you can change your habits efficiently and profoundly through a combination of verbal explanation, visual materials, and gentle hands-on guidance from a qualified Gokhale Method teacher. All qualified Gokhale Method teachers are personally trained by Esther Gokhale.

• Reduce or eliminate many kinds of musculoskeletal pain
• Prevent joint degeneration
• Increase energy, stamina, and flexibility
• Improve your circulation and breathing
• Reduce stress
• Look and feel more confident

Effects are often immediate and last a lifetime.

Founder Esther Gokhale will be teaching this course as a special part of the Gokhale Method Teacher Training program. She will be joined by teacher trainees; this type of Foundation Course creates an especially rich learning experience and fosters more individualized hands-on attention for students than in regular courses.

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“In six sessions I felt transformed. The approach is stunningly simple and confers immediate results. I wholeheartedly endorse this program.”

        - Deirdre Stegman, M.D. Internal Medicine, Palo Alto Medical Foundation

“Every year tens of thousands of patients undergo major back surgery without any benefit. By using the novel techniques of the Gokhale Method, many of these patients can avoid such needless and expensive medical procedures and quickly return to a pain-free life.”

        - John R. Adler, Neurosurgeon, Stanford University Medical Clinic, Stanford, CA

"Although stunningly simple, the Gokhale Method™ turns much of conventional wisdom about pain and posture on its head. Each session of the course gave immediate results and I now look forward to many years of a healthy neck and back."

        - Joan Baez, folk singer and activist, Woodside, CA