140: Primal Posture for Pain-Free Living

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Lucas Rockwood

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2015

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Back pain is pandemic, and it’s one of the top reasons people come to yoga class. In this week’s Yoga Talk Show episode, Lucas Rockwood and Esther Gokhale discuss how primal posture can help with chronic back pain. Esther Gokhale (Go-clay) has been involved in integrative therapies all her life. She studied biochemistry at Harvard and Princeton and, later, acupuncture at the San Francisco School of Oriental Medicine. After experiencing crippling back pain during her first pregnancy and unsuccessful back surgery, Gokhale began her lifelong crusade to vanquish back pain.

She is the founder and creator of, The Gokhale Method®, a unique, systematic approach to help people find their bodies’ way back to pain-free living.

Gokhale's book, 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back, has sold over 100,000 copies and has been translated into eight languages. In 2010, Gokhale hosted the nationally televised program Back Pain: The Primal Posture Solution (available on DVD).

In this Show, You'll learn:

how primal posture can help with back pain
the benefits of "tucking in your tailbone" and other exercises for the back
Esther’s thoughts on ergonomic chairs, body-forming mattresses and lumbar spine pillows

Links & References from the Show:

http://gokhalemethod.com

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Yoga students, if you want to deepen your practice, discover optimal health, and learn practical tools that will improve your life,
0:07.0	then you have come to the right place, my friend.
0:09.0	Welcome to the Yoga Talk Show with Lucas Rockwood.
0:14.0	So hello and welcome everyone.
0:15.6	This is Lucas Rockwood.
0:16.6	This is the yoga talk show.
0:17.6	Thanks for tuning in.
0:18.6	Today's show is called Primal Posture for Pain-free living.
0:23.4	And I am joined with Esther Goklay, and Esther has been involved in integrative therapies
0:30.0	for all of her life.
0:31.0	She studied biochemistry at Harvard and at Princeton and later acupuncture
0:36.1	at the San Francisco School of Oriental Medicine. The truth is her credentials are really
0:41.4	very vast and impressive.
0:43.0	After experiencing crippling back pain herself during her first pregnancy,
0:47.0	and after an unsuccessful back surgery,
0:50.0	which I'm sure many people listening can relate to,
0:52.0	Gokley began her lifelong crusade to
0:54.6	vanquish back pain and that's why she's on the show today. She's the the founder and
0:59.0	creator of the Gokley method which is a unique systematic approach to help people find their body's way back to
1:05.8	pain-free living.
1:06.8	You can find her book Eight Steps to a pain-free back, which has sold over 100,000 copies.
1:11.6	It's available on Amazon. It's been translated into eight languages.
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