Esther Gokhale II: Body Reading, Tribal Butt Cheeks, Heal Your Back | Ep. 139

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Esther Gokhale (Go-clay) has been involved in integrative therapies all her life. As a young girl growing up in India, she helped her mother, a nurse, treat abandoned babies waiting to be adopted. This early interest in healing led her to study 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. Her studies at the Aplomb® Institute in Paris and years of research in Brazil, India, Portugal and elsewhere led her to develop the Gokhale Method, a unique, systematic approach to help people find their bodies’ way back to pain-free living.

Gokhale practiced acupuncture and taught posture, dance, and yoga in her Palo Alto wellness center for over twenty years. The Gokhale Method continues to grow as qualified Gokhale Method teachers now teach the method worldwide.

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).

Gokhale has taught at corporations such as Google, IDEO, Varian Medical Systems, and Facebook Inc. She has also presented at conferences including TEDx(Stanford), Ancestral Health Symposium, Weston Price Foundation Conference, and PrimalCon. She continues to speak with physician groups including Stanford, PAMF, UCSF and has consulted for the trainers of the SF 49ers and several Stanford sports teams.

In May 2013, The New York Times featured Esther in an article giving her the title, “The Posture Guru of Silicon Valley”.

Esther Gokhale lives on Stanford University campus where she raised three children with her husband Brian White, chairman of the Math Department.

Awards:

1978 Dean’s honor list at Harvard University
2008 Foreword Silver Award for best health book
2009 Nautilus Gold Award for best Pilates/Tai Qi/Yoga/bodywork book
2009 Ippy Bronze Award for best health book

Transcript

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0:00.0	I said empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water.
0:08.0	It's about how hard you hit.
0:10.0	It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward.
0:13.6	How much you can take and keep moving forward?
0:16.4	Join Movement Expert Aaron Alexander
0:19.4	as he dives into the minds of the foremost innovative health care thinkers and movement masters on their approach to optimal health and wellness.
0:28.0	A Line Podcast.
0:30.0	Welcome back to the Line Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. Today's beautiful episode I got to have, once again, someone that I have quite a bit of respect in adoration for, Miss Esther Gokalay.
0:41.1	Esther is the writer of Eight Ways to a Pain Free Back. She's known from the New York Times as being, what do they call her, the
0:50.8	the guru of posture in Silicon Valley something like that
0:55.2	pretty amazing woman she's lived all around the world raised in India has an impressive
0:59.7	background in the world of movement and wellness and just putting these parts in our bodies
1:05.2	back together in a more effective fashion we get into all that in this
1:08.4	conversation ways to address back pain pain, posture and body language from cultures around the world and
1:17.0	just a really fun conversation.
1:19.0	Hope you guys enjoy here's a little clip.
1:21.0	This all our ancestors carried stuff on their head and they weren't just sitting there
1:26.0	passively under the staff.
1:28.0	They were actually actively pushing up against it.
1:30.0	So that's something worth doing, worth learning.
1:34.0	If you guys feel called to take the five day movement challenge, you can find that at
1:40.5	align therapy.com, ALIGN therapy.com, a l I g and therapy.
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