188: Primal posture

Wise Traditions

Weston A. Price Foundation

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

From the time we are born, we are conditioned to sit, sleep, walk and stand in a certain way. We are directed to "sit up straight" and to stick our "chest out" when we slouch. These ideas are actually counterproductive and do not correspond with how our ancestors sat, stood, and moved. The result? Back pain, digestive issues, shoulder and neck impingement, and more. Esther Gokhale knows this firsthand. She had excruciating back pain and resorted to several surgeries before she discovered the root of the problem: poor posture. Esther is the founder of the Gokhale Method: an approach that retrains the body to adopt its natural, primal posture. Today, she walks us through what's wrong with our alignment and how to fix it. She offers simple tweaks for improving how we sit, stand, and even sleep. And she explains why it is critical to carry ourselves properly for a strong foundation for optimal wellbeing.

For more on Esther and the Gokhale method, visit her website gokhale method.com.

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0:18.0	We start them out day one coming home from the hospital. We put them in car seats that have the C shape and in effect we're training them from day one to tuck their pelvis and then they go to school and they sit like that and if you sit on your tail so to speak the building block stack is disrupted and the upper part curves forward, your head goes forward, your shoulders go forward,
0:27.3	and then our common fix for that, like every parent telling their kids, sit up straight, stand up straight, you're adding a second problem.
0:34.4	Now you're asking them to sway their back, to thrust out their chest, squish all the elements in the
0:40.6	low back. They haven't really, you haven't really gone to the root of the
0:44.4	problem which is that they've tucked their pelvis. And when we give directions not only to our kids
0:49.3	but also to our, you know, if you're in a fitness class, it's like,
0:54.0	tuck your pelvis, sit up straight, thrust your chest out, lift your chest,
0:58.5	all of these directions are not only unuseful,
1:02.0	but they're actually problematic problematic they actually do destruction.
1:04.8	From the Weston A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast for Wise Traditions in food, farming, and the healing arts.
1:19.0	We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health.
1:27.0	Hey guys, I'm Hilda Labrada Gore and this is episode 188. Our guest today is Esther Gokly.
1:37.0	Esther is the author of Eight Steps to a Pain-Free Back and the founder of the Gokley Method Institute that helps people
1:44.9	rediscover pain-free posture and movement. Esther herself struggled with
1:49.6	crippling back pain which you'll hear more about in just a bit.
1:53.6	And you'll learn what she discovered along the way that has helped innumerable people
1:57.5	around the world.
1:58.9	All of us have a long way to go, actually, when it comes to understanding the way to
2:02.1	stand, sit, and move that is in
2:04.9	keeping with what worked for our ancestors as long as they've been on the earth.
2:09.5	On today's episode we gain insights on how we have been taught to sit and stand incorrectly
2:15.0	causing stress and tension in the body.
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