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If you have had back pain, odds are that you have visited either a physical therapist or a chiropractor. They are the most frequented medical practitioners for all types of structural pain, and our teacher community has been enriched by both these (and many other types of) practitioners. For this post, I have invited Vera Baziuk, a chiropractor and Gokhale Method® teacher based in Edmonton, Canada, to join me for a Q&A. We would like to share with you how she sees the interface between chiropractic and our method. 

Gokhale Method teacher and chiropractor Vera Baziuk.

E: How did you first discover the Gokhale Method?

V: I was researching the best home exercises and stretches for certain patients for back pain relief. I felt that this was a missing component in chiropractic for fully resolving back pain. I stumbled upon an interview with you and Dr. Mercola. What you said in the beginning about the J-spine grabbed my attention. I immediately went to the Gokhale Method website and downloaded your book, 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back

This was one of those career aha moments, when I know on an inner, deeper level, that something is right and what I need to be doing. I began looking into teacher training in November 2019, however, teacher training was not going to be possible with a three-month-old, and I still needed to take the Foundations course. Then COVID hit.

I took the online Elements course in the spring/summer of 2020, right in the middle of COVID, and waited for the announcement of teacher training. In fall of 2021, I gained in-person experience in a Pop-up class in Palo Alto. That weekend was amazing! I had never felt quite the stretch before as when Esther adjusted my stretchsitting. I shall never forget that initial amazing feeling of lengthening in my erector spinae muscles and ultimately the spine. I wanted everyone I knew to feel how good that felt. If I wasn’t hooked before, I was after that class! 

Gokhale Method teacher Sabina Blumauer guides a student in stretchsitting.

E: Were you initially skeptical about the Gokhale Method?

V: No, I wasn’t. The interview I heard between you and Dr. Mercola made complete sense. The book and Elements made a well-presented argument for the natural J-shape of the spine, supported by analysis of body mechanics, muscle contraction, and relaxation. Hundreds of photos showed how the spine looks when posture is done well in daily activities—and how things look when it is not. It became evident that poor posture was the real culprit to back pain. And that the posture pot of gold is still attainable at any age. 

E: Do you see any divergence between chiropractic and the Gokhale Method? 

V: The main thing I encounter, from fellow health professionals and patients, is confusion about healthy spine shape and pelvic position. 

For example, in conventional trainings, having an anterior pelvic tilt is equated with having an excessive lumbar lordosis. The Gokhale Method makes the important distinction between upper lumbar lordosis (undesirable) and L5-S1 angle (desirable). The Gokhale Method also uses more descriptive and “sticky” language when it comes to spinal shape—instead of talking about lordosis and kyphosis, we refer to J-spines, C-spines, and S-spines; this helps students understand what they need to embody more accurately and easily. This is explained and illustrated in detail in your book, and also addressed in a blog post on spine shape and another on pelvic angle.

E: Has the Gokhale Method complimented your practice as a chiropractor?

V: Incorporating the Gokhale Method into my practice is a natural fit because, ideally, there is an active and passive component to most healing. 

Passive care is when the chiropractor (or therapist) does something to you, like an adjustment, mobilization, TENS, ultrasound, laser, soft tissue therapy, or acupuncture. While these modalities can be effective in providing relief from pain, they often do not solve the root cause of the problem. Unfortunately, perhaps due to persuasive marketing, people often expect entirely passive solutions for their back pain. They begin to believe that a magic bullet for back pain relief exists.

Here I am giving a patient a chiropractic adjustment. This is an example of passive care, using diagnostic skills and clinical knowledge, plus hands on techniques, to effect change.

Active care consists of therapists providing tools to their patients/clients that they can use in their day-to-day lives to help them in recovery. These may be cryotherapy or heat, exercises to strengthen muscles and stretches to lengthen muscles, nutritional advice to improve healing, stress management tips, and general physical fitness recommendations. This active care component is critical in creating lasting, functional changes.

The Gokhale Method provides high quality active care. It is an educational intervention that teaches and empowers people to make gentle changes to their body 24/7, often with both immediate and cumulative benefits. I don’t know of any other intervention that does this so comprehensively and also includes the J-spine paradigm. 

E: So you see the Gokhale Method and chiropractic as working together? 

V: Yes, absolutely. The Gokhale Method helps chiropractic adjustments hold more effectively and chiropractic adjustments give people a welcome jumpstart on feeling better. 

Most people who come for chiropractic treatment have sustained a lot of damage over the years in their muscles, tendons, ligaments, discs, and joints, so experiencing a break from their cycle of pain is very welcome. But partial or repeated short-term relief from pain is ultimately unsatisfying, both for the patient and practitioner. The Gokhale Method offers ways of transforming the postural habits that caused the problem in the first place. I find that, given most people’s starting point, a combination approach restores function, gives long term relief, and improves comfort along the way. 

My Gokhale Method students find learning how to rest and sleep in comfortable, therapeutic positions makes an invaluable contribution to their recovery. Here I am teaching stretchlying.

E: What impact has the Gokhale Method had on your thinking about chiropractic? 

V: I feel like my eyes have finally opened. For example, revisiting my textbooks, I noticed that references to posture are minimal and often an afterthought. Dr. David Magee is a well-respected physiotherapist who has written numerous classic orthopedic and physical examination books that both chiropractors and physiotherapists still learn from today. I began to wonder why, in one of his books, Posture Assessment is Chapter 15 of 17? It should be Chapter 1! Nearly all musculoskeletal conditions are a direct result of poor posture. 

E: Do you discuss the subject of posture with your patients?

V: I now see my patients’ complaints through the Gokhale lens, with posture as the starting point. Looking at someone in the past, I could see their posture was not ideal, but I still dealt with their presenting complaint in parts, not as a whole. For the past year, I have switched my filter and now consider all musculoskeletal pain in relation to posture. 

When speaking to patients for the first time, I begin to paint the picture of what healthy posture looks like and how their current posture compares. We then explore options to solve the problem with some immediate pain relief solutions and a longer-term relief and prevention strategy—the Gokhale Method. 

Teaching my Gokhale Method students healthy bending not only enables them to avoid future back pain flare-ups and protect against damage, it also brings many other biomechanical benefits—such as natural length in the hamstrings and improved hip joint mobility.

For existing patients, I periodically offer observations on how their current posture is very likely contributing to a flare up or increase of pain from their last appointment. Many wholeheartedly welcome hearing more about the Gokhale Method.

E: Can you share a specific case where the Gokhale Method has enhanced the outcome for a patient?

V: In September of 2023, I met Kay Chui Lee, who is happy to share his journey. He was referred by a massage therapist, and presented wearing a cervical collar for an acquired torticollis (neck twist to one side). His posture was a significant C-shaped spine, with a very tucked pelvis and his hips parked forward. His erector spinae were perhaps the tightest I have ever felt. In addition, he had tight sternocleidomastoid, scalene, levator scapulae, and trapezius muscles. His gluteal muscular tone was weak. 

Kay Lee started as a chiropractic patient, and, to best serve his needs, I also encouraged him to enroll in the Gokhale Foundations course. He stopped wearing his cervical collar about halfway through the course. After the course, his neck and head rotation to the right had improved and there were times when Kay was able to look straight ahead. 

A combination of the Gokhale Method and chiropractic treatment is enabling Kay Lee to gradually become more upright. His head and neck are returning to a more natural, comfortable, and symmetric alignment. 

He walks daily, practicing what he learnt in glidewalking, and reports doing so without the fatigue he used to feel after a walk. He sleeps better and can manage his day with greater comfort. The texture in his erector spinae muscles is softening and he reports less pain with muscle work. To date, Kay continues with chiropractic treatment and there are ongoing improvements. I am hopeful that with alumni classes, online or in-person, he will continue to improve.

E: Thanks, Vera, for sharing how you are using chiropractic alongside the Gokhale Method. I am sure your insights will help both our students, and chiropractors and their patients, to embrace this complementary pairing with a new level of confidence.

Best next action steps 

If you would like to improve your posture, get started by booking a consultation, online or in person, with one of our teachers. 

You can sign up below to join any one of our upcoming FREE Online Workshops…

Travel is part of our Gokhale Method® DNA—the method arose and developed through study of foreign cultures (including ancestral cultures), and remains informed by images, videos, statistics, and other data from pain-free and remarkably functional human beings. 

I have learned firsthand what healthy human posture looks like alongside the Sami reindeer herders in Scandinavia, tribal people in Odisha, India, villagers in Burkina Faso, and people with African roots in Brazil. When I travel teach, I make it a point to visit the local museums and also check for local cultural events, ethnic restaurants, and areas that might bring to life the kind of insights and body wisdom the Gokhale Method is based on. 

These Arnhem Land and Torres Strait Indigenous dancers incorporate both external rotation of their legs and hip-hinging in their movement vocabulary—an example we do well to follow. Image from Wikimedia

In my experience, travel makes the mind especially receptive to new ideas and impressions—we are away from our usual routines and responsibilities and free to take in new sights, sounds, smells, feelings, and thoughts. 

Travel with a purpose

If you suffer with back pain, I would like to encourage you to consider traveling to a location to take our Gokhale Foundations course. These courses are often taught intensively in a weekend or a week, and our teachers are spread in many wonderful corners of the globe. You might think of this as a “destination Gokhale Foundations course” that combines wellness, learning, and transformation alongside the local attractions that the destination has to offer. 

Combine a city break with your passions, be they history, engineering, science, or the arts, alongside your Gokhale Foundations course. Image from Wikimedia
The Clifton Suspension Bridge and Observatory, Bristol, England.

Our teachers can not only offer you instruction and hands-on guidance in how to move like you are meant to, but also information on the posture-relevant sites in their towns. They can offer you tips on museum exhibits, restaurants where the servers have great posture, localities that are home to recent immigrants, and other supplemental suggestions on how to immerse yourself in your wellness vacation. This kind of journey makes you a pioneer in the new field of posture tourism!

Posture tourism also insures you against losing all the benefits of your vacation soon after it ends. Posture learning and transformation will improve the course of your life, even if your life is busy and has tensions in it.  

Choose your destination

Geographically speaking, where might your Foundations adventure take you? We have teachers offering both group and private courses all over, so here are some suggestions:

• City breaks, US: Atlanta GA, Berkeley CA, Cambridge Boston MA, Chicago IL, Cotati CA, Hingham MA, Madison WI, Memphis TN, New York NY, Palo Alto CA, Philadelphia PA, San Diego CA, Westchester IL
• Town and country breaks, US: Brooklyn WI, Edmonds Seattle WA, Elmwood IL, Greeley CO, McCormick SC, Whitefish MT  
• Ancestor trail and abroad: Basel Switzerland, Besançon France, Braunschweig Germany, Bristol UK, Canberra Australia, Dittisham UK, Edmonton Canada, Erfurt Germany, Ingolstadt Germany, Kilkenny Ireland, Ljubljana Slovenia, Öhringen Hannover Germany, Ottawa Canada, Stuttgart Germany
• Sea and coastal locations: Cat Island The Bahamas, Celebrity Cruising (Fort Lauderdale visiting Aruba, Bonair, and Curacao in the Southern Caribbean), Hawi Hawaii, Sydney Australia
• You can find all our course location details here.

Make “destination Gokhale Foundations course” your own “retreat,” or go with your partner, a good friend, or family member, to share and remember your discoveries. (Aruba, southwest Caribbean). Image from Unsplash

Vacation time away can be an ideal time to improve your posture. Getting away from familiar home and work routines is conducive to being open to new experiences and possibilities. There is space for reflection and relaxation as you explore changing the ways you inhabit your body. 

You can easily search for Gokhale Foundations courses and other offerings here.

And staying away from home doesn’t have to be expensive. Many of our students stay with family members, or catch up with friends who live in a Foundations destination. A weekend course can also be a well-earned, self-care extension to a work trip.

I knew I wanted a hands-on experience but was hesitant to make the commitment—an intensive weekend class would require a three-hour drive from my home plus a two-night hotel stay… My in-person with Doreen was a transformative experience… Plus, she helped me correctly set up my stretchsit cushion in my car. Thanks to this, my back and legs were blissfully comfortable on my three-hour return trip home. 

Amy Alpine, Gokhale Foundations course student.

The river Dart in the Devon village of Dittisham, England, a Gokhale Foundations course destination.

Can’t come to us? We can come to you!

Many of our teachers enjoy travel teaching, and have visited Northern Ireland and Dublin Ireland, Edinburgh Scotland, Berlin and Freiburg Germany, and Werkhoven Holland. This year I am looking forward to travel teaching Gokhale Foundations in Sydney, Australia alongside teacher training. 

The church on the market square in Öhringen. This October will be my third visit to this delightful German town. 

If you have a group of friends, colleagues or clients, who would like a course in your town, please let us know—we would love to make this happen! If you own or know of a venue, a provisional course can be listed publicly on our website.

Whichever destination you choose for your Gokhale Foundations course, you’ll be on your way to healthier posture and breaking away from back and other body pains.

 Sunset at Kapa’a Beach Park, Hawaii, a Gokhale Foundations course destination.

Best next action steps 

If you are new to the Gokhale Method, get started by booking a consultation, online, or in person with one of our teachers. 

You can sign up below to join any one of our upcoming FREE Online Workshops…

The much-loved Gokhale® Pain-Free Chair was launched in 2012, celebrating the philosophy that sitting is a natural, healthy activity. This office chair was designed to facilitate stretchsitting and stacksitting, two key techniques of the Gokhale Method® that transform sitting into a comfortable activity that heals you rather than hurts you.

The Gokhale® Pain-Free Chair has many features that facilitate the therapeutic techniques of stretchsitting and stacksitting once their principles are understood.

The need for an executive chair design breakthrough 

But some of our students, alumni, and members of the public asked us for recommendations for an equally comfortable executive chair—one that allows for leaning back with neck support. We gave our best guidance on what features to look for, and which to avoid. I also offered Live Chats on sitting and written blog posts about seating options—two examples being How to Choose a Backrest, and Comparing and Contrasting the Herman Miller Aeron Chair and the Gokhale Pain-Free™ Chair.

The Herman Miller Aeron Chair (top left) is a market leader, and there are a myriad of other brands, designs, and specifications to choose from. Images from: The Herman Miller Aeron Chair, The Leap Chair, Litfad Executive Chair, Laporta Executive Chair

The features we consider healthy in an executive chair are rarely all available in one package. Many common features, like lumbar curves which distort the spine, bolsters that round the shoulders forward, and head rests that crane the head forward, are problematic and difficult to work around. 

We are now delighted to be able to offer our own Gokhale® Executive Chair solution.

The Gokhale® Executive Chair

About the Gokhale® Executive Chair

Our regular Gokhale Pain-Free chair works well as a home or office chair, but for a professional working long hours, a well-designed executive chair offers additional, relevant features. For example, it isn’t always practical for a busy executive to take a walk outdoors, lie down on the floor, or relax in a nearby cafe. But they still need to reflect, reset, and refresh.

The Gokhale® Executive Chair provides this. At the pull of a lever, the backrest smoothly angles back and even rocks a little for a profoundly relaxing pause or deep-thinking time.

The reclining function of our chair combines particularly well with cutaways which allow your shoulders to rest back, the stretchsit nubs on the backrest that enable you to gently traction your back, and a headrest that helps to elongate your neck.

We decided to make the Gokhale® Executive Chair a high-end offering. It is crafted in luxurious Italian leather (also available in high-quality fabric) and quality materials for comfort and durability. It has an adjustable headrest, adjustable back height, cutaways in the shoulder area, and my favorite recline function. 

The guiding principles of Gokhale Method design

This chair blends form and function attentively. Its contemporary look belies the fact that its design is based on the timeless principles of healthy human posture. Its purpose is to not only allow you to sit elegantly and comfortably for as long as you wish, but also to bestow all the therapeutic benefits of time spent sitting well.

Most of the executive chairs on the market are designed to appeal primarily to the dictates of fashion. There is a parallel situation with shoe design; fashion does not always respect what is compatible with our structure. Additionally, from a Gokhale Method perspective, chair design often reflects conventional ideas on how to sit, which is also at odds with our natural structure.

Many designers—and consumers—are constrained by well-intentioned but misguided ergonomic principles like the S-spine paradigm. This is why almost all adjustable chairs come with excessive lumbar and neck curvature. Our chair is different because it is shaped by our knowledge of the body’s natural J-spine architecture to provide exceptional comfort and healing. No other executive chair that we know of has a J-spine paradigm informing its design. The Gokhale® Executive Chair is also uniquely compatible with all the posture principles and techniques taught in our comprehensive Gokhale Method courses (the in-person Foundations course, or one-day Pop-up course, or our online Elements course).

Let’s take a close-up look at the posture-enhancing features that enable users to sit in ways that are comfortable and therapeutic.

The Gokhale® Executive Chair works for you so that you can work in comfort.

In the video below Gokhale Method Teacher Sabina Blumauer gives her first impressions of the Gokhale® Executive Chair.

You can order your Gokhale® Executive Chair here.

Best next action steps for newcomers

If you would like to know which posture changes will help you be pain-free and functional, schedule an Initial Consultation, online, or in person.

You can sign up below to join one of our upcoming FREE Online Workshops. . .

In this blog post Gokhale Method teacher Clare Chapman interviews Roberta Cooks and Kathleen O’Donohue to find out more about their Gokhale Moving Meditation classes. Roberta and Kathleen have been Gokhale Method teachers for 11 and 5 years respectively—and longtime practitioners of Tai Chi Chih (Roberta), and Tai Chi Qigong (Kathleen).* 

*Please note that various traditions referred to in this newsletter use different spellings—so for example “Chi” can also be written “chi”, “ch’i”,  “qi” or “Qi," depending on the tradition. 

Kathleen keeps her ribs anchored 
as she lifts her arms for “Painting Rainbows."

1. Tai Chi and Qigong are practices many people have heard of, but perhaps don’t know much about. Can you explain the practice? 

Kathleen: Tai Chi and Qigong are centuries-old related mind body practices that originated in China, and can be translated as “life-energy cultivation." Both include postures and gentle movements to cultivate mental focus, breathing, and relaxation. Movements can be adapted for sitting, standing, and walking.

Roberta: Tai Chi Chih is a moving meditation practice that was developed by Justin Stone, a Tai Chi Chuan Master, who created a gentle practice that could be learned relatively easily by people of all ages and abilities. It is made up of 19 movements and a final pose. Each movement is repeated many times while focusing on relaxing the body, breathing, and feeling the flow. The goal of practice is to activate, balance, and circulate the chi, the life force that keeps us breathing, healthy, and vital. 

2. How did you each come to your practice and to teaching it? 

Kathleen: My Tai Chi and Qigong experience began in 1985 as a student of Professor Chi, Kwan Wen, a student of Chen Man-Ch’ing. In 1988, with the encouragement of Professor Chi, I became an instructor of Yang Style short and long form. In 2009, I became certified by the Tai Chi for Health Institute in Dr. Paul Lam's Tai Chi for Arthritis program. I have taught it and several other forms ever since.

Roberta: I was an Argentine Tango dancer for many years, which I found to be a very meditative dance. I also practiced many kinds of mindful meditation including Medical Qigong with Dr. Roger Jahnke and Wisdom Healing Qigong with Master Mingtong Gu. By chance, I found a Tai Chi Chih class at my local YMCA. I felt such joy and peacefulness without any of the effort of doing a sitting meditation practice. I continue to feel its physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual benefits in my own life. Teaching is always the deepest form of learning and shared practice in a group adds energy and depth for all involved. 

Moving Meditation incorporates many Gokhale Method skills, such as using your inner corset, keeping your neck tall, and externally rotating your feet and legs. 
Here Kathleen applies them in “Flying Dove Spreads its Wings." 

3. What do the Moving Meditation classes bring to the Gokhale Exercise program?

Kathleen: Tai Chi and Qigong teach us gentle, flowing movements that enhance relaxation. They can be done sitting and standing, at a pace and duration of one’s choice and ability in the moment. It is a relaxing situation in which you can be talked through and shown another activity in which you can apply your Gokhale Method posture skills, gaining fresh awareness and openness.

Roberta: We offer a way to practice the Gokhale Method which focuses on learning how to relax increasingly deeply into movement. We teach a limited number of moves that we repeat many times. There is a special kind of learning that happens when you become more familiar with a movement and can then focus on its finer points. You also have a chance to repeat the class material and delve deeply into it with our class video recordings.

4. What do your classes have in common with the Gokhale Method teaching on posture? 

Kathleen: Both of these teach healthy ways to move. Tai Chi Qigong teaches one to move with “beautiful upright posture." In my decades of being a student of Tai Chi Qigong, I’ve never been instructed to “tuck” my pelvis. Unfortunately, I’ve met students who have been taught this. I asked a Master Trainer directly about this and she stated that she does not teach tucking and believes it is a mistranslation.

Roberta: Although you can learn the 19 movements of Tai Chi Chih relatively quickly, they are subtle and must be practiced mindfully over and over to make them an effortless part of you. Learning the Gokhale Method is very similar. Students learn the elements of healthy posture in a short period of time, and then repetition integrates them into daily life. 

5. How do the movements you teach help Gokhale Method students?

Kathleen: It’s a new way for students to cultivate their kinesthetic and proprioceptive skills—becoming more aware of their posture and position in space. They are likely to be freer from old habitual patterns as they are doing sometime new with their bodies. Students can experience stress and tension before and during their postural change journey. This helps them let go of that.

The healthy posture principles taught in the Gokhale Method are woven into each 
Moving Meditation class, as Roberta shows in this video.

Roberta: The Moving Meditation is so compatible with what is taught in the Gokhale Method. For example, the grounding and flowing movements help students consolidate the principles of tallstanding and glidewalking. In my classes I weave in Gokhale posture principles throughout, reminding students how to use rib anchor, shoulder rolls, external rotation of the legs, and kidney bean feet, to make the movements flowing, relaxed, and comfortable. 

6. Can you say something about the meditational component of your classes. Do you find it resonates with the Gokhale Method?

Kathleen: I find both to be mindfulness practices. Each allows me to be present in my body in each moment and to find deeper levels of relaxation and wellbeing. They are great opportunities to let go, release, and return to the present.

Roberta demonstrating “Pulling Taffy." This is part of a sequence where, as the lower body 
moves from side to side, the stacked arms move apart as if pulling taffy (candy). 
Mindfulness builds better coordination of these different movements. 

Roberta: All moving meditation practices keep us in the present moment, mindfully focused on each part of our bodies moving through space. The Gokhale Method also takes us mindfully back into our bodies to relearn how to sit, stand, walk, bend, and sleep. I tell my students that the best way to integrate healthy posture into your life is to think of it as a mindfulness practice that you weave through your daily life for your physical health and total well-being.

7. In what ways has learning the Gokhale Method enhanced your Tai Chi Chih and Qigong practice?

Kathleen: The Gokhale Method enhanced my practice of Tai Chi and Qigong by adding excellent postural knowledge to apply to this activity that I love. 

Roberta: The Gokhale Method has given me a solid foundation for moving. Many others who teach and practice Tai Chi Chih do not have this same healthy posture foundation and without my Gokhale training I might have integrated unhealthy movements into my practice. My Gokhale Method training helps me to teach my Tai Chi Chih students to move in a healthy way. 

8. Do you find the Gokhale PostureTracker™ helps in Moving Meditation?

Kathleen: Yes, because the PostureTracker sensors and app monitor posture are ideal for use with slow moving activity. For example, the Upright and Relaxed setting can tell you if you are either swaying or rounding your spine. The Level Head setting gives real-time feedback that helps you keep your head well-balanced on a long neck rather than jutting forward. 

  
Using the PostureTracker allows you to catch any poor posture habits as they happen, 
correcting them using the Gokhale Method techniques. 

Roberta: I love the idea of using the PostureTracker to check and improve my posture practice. The PostureTracker can be especially useful if I want to work out the best way to execute particular Tai Chi Chih movements. When I am actually doing the practice of Qigong I want to be absorbed in my body, totally relaxed and feeling the flow of energy. At that point I integrate what I have learned by using the PostureTracker in my pre-practice work. 

9. Do you have a favorite Qigong movement or practice?

Kathleen teaching “Wave Hands in Clouds." As in the Gokhale Method, imagining specific actions can help bring particular qualities, such as lightness and smoothness, to your movement.

Kathleen: I generally don’t have favorites, but one movement brings especially fond memories of my original teacher, Professor Chi, Kwan Wen. He frequently did Wave Hands in Clouds while waiting, instead of just wasting time.

Roberta showing the crossed hand position in “Daughter on the Mountaintop."

Roberta: My favorite movements are always changing, based on changes in my practice, aha moments, and my mood and body sensations on a particular day. One I always love to do is Daughter on the Mountaintop. This is part of a forward and back movement sequence where hands and arms start low and then move to the top of the mountain, hands crossed with the left hand nearer the heart. 

10. Is your program suitable for all levels and abilities? 

Kathleen: Indeed! These slow, gentle movements can be done sitting or standing, modified to your range of motions and your choice of duration and number of repetitions. Come join us!

Roberta: Absolutely! Our movement meditation programs are meant to be practiced by people of all ages and abilities. They can be easily modified to fit with your physical comfort level. We devote time for student questions at the end of each session.

Gokhale Moving Meditation classes take place every Monday at 2PM (Pacific Time) with Roberta and every Wednesday at 12PM (Pacific Time) with Kathleen. 

Please share below your questions or comments about Moving Meditation: