Archive for July 2015
Alignment and Tone (and Counterbalancing)
I’ve always been suspicious of practices or disciplines that involve deliberately tightening a muscle—even though I know that others use this strategy with great success. The reasons for my suspicion are that: (1) you can tighten a muscle without significantly changing your alignment and (2) it seems to me that the body has already worked out the…
Read MoreCounterbalancing at the top of the body
In my previous post, I started writing about counterbalancing body patterns. Here, I want to talk about balancing the part of the body most people think about when they think about their “bad posture”: the shoulder girdle, neck and head. First, let’s put it in context. If you think your only postural problem is that…
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