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Restoring healthy posture from childhood for relief from chronic pain, easy flexibility, and enduring strength and vitality well into old age * Offers 12 physical exercises to become mindful of your posture and discover pain-free alignment of your pelvis, rib cage, shoulders, neck, and back * Provides simple yet detailed instructions on how to sit, stand, walk, bend, get up from a chair, sit to meditate, sleep, and practice yoga with proper alignment * Includes full-color diagrams and posture photographs from around the world Our bones are the framework of support for our bodies, much like the wall studs and beams of a house. Yet the alignment of the skeleton along the vertical axis of gravity is largely overlooked today, even by fitness experts and yoga teachers.
About the Author
Kathleen Porter is the director of the Center for Natural Alignment in Portland, Oregon. A movement educator and specialist in the body's authentic natural alignment, she offers programs for people with posture-related pain. Kathleen has taught principles of skeletal alignment in many settings, including the University of Hawaii at Hilo, the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon, and the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York.
The author of "Natural Posture for Pain-Free Living: The Practice of Mindful Alignment," she has also written a book that addresses the seriousness of the slouching epidemic among children today. "Sad Dog Happy Dog: How Poor Posture Affects Your Child's Health & What You Can Do About It" is a book that grew out of programs Kathleen developed in public and private school classrooms in Hawaii and Oregon. These programs provide students and teachers, working together in a process of mutual learning, with the tools for finding the support of aligned bones for easy, comfortable upright sitting. Teachers have observed that their students are more calm and better able to focus when they sit up straight without tension or strain.
Kathleen is also the creator of a line of posture aid products--The Wedge, Travel Wedge, Yoga Wedge, Comfy Shoulder Band and Baby Wedgie, all are available at Amazon.com through her company, Natural Posture Solutions, LLC.
More information is available at Kathleen's website at http://www.NaturalPostureSolutions.com
