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Posture and Breathing

Letting Go with Breath Remembering to breathe is a common concern many people have these days of fast paced living, high levels of stress, and the health threats of covid / coronavirus. Many progressive MD's, mental health professionals, and spiritual teachers...

Posture Self Check

How do you stack up? Do a Posture Check Using Any Digital Camera. Take 3 pictures of yourself: from the front, back, and side. Stand tall with what feels like your “Best Posture” (Don't look in a mirror!). Print the pictures, one to a page. Place a dot between your...

Aging and Balance

Aging well is the name of the game, but there are different ways of looking at age including balance. We think about chronological years when talking about age, or how long ago we were born. While a youthful appearance and good looks are important to many, aging well...

Posture Exercise is a LifeHabit

Posture Exercise, Before Exercise Working out a twenty-year old body is like writing on a clean slate. Working out a 40, 50, 60 or 70 year old body is another matter. Back pain, neck and shoulder problems and other pains all make you move differently. Choosing to...

Posture Exercise

Improve & Strengthen with Posture Exercise First: Check the Alignment of Your PostureZones TRY THE WALLSTAND: Back up to a wall so your heels, buttocks, shoulders and head all lightly touch the wall. Stand relaxed with your head level and legs straight. No...

The Motion Cycle

The Path to Lifelong Movement StrongPosture® exercise creates an awareness of posture and when performed daily can stretch muscles, ligaments, and other structures that shorten with poor posture; strengthen muscles that weaken; and help people stay active, thereby...

Posture Tips

Top 10 Posture Tips After you've completed the 7 Steps to StrongPosture® online course, follow these posture tips to maintain good posture. 1 - Walk More! Walking is the perfect exercise. A brisk walk burns nearly as many calories as running the equivalent distance,...

Back Pain

Suffering from recurring back pain? A recent research study demonstrated people with chronic low back pain really do move differently from people without preexisting back pain issues, and also cannot balance as well. When compared to pain-free individuals, and even in...

Posture Exercise Keeps You Moving as You Age

With age, the joints stiffen and muscles get tight. The common bent over posture of old age occurs as a result of the body adapting to long-term poor posture. As posture becomes more bent forward the muscles have to work harder to keep the body balanced, which makes...

Anatomy of Posture

Posture isn't just how you hold your neck or the slump of your shoulders and low back. Everything in the body is connected, and our posture is the coordinated workings of all the mechanical parts. The body’s motion system controls posture. Scientists call this system...