Saturday, January 6, 2018 at 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PST
All Saints' Church Hall
555 Waverley Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Join Esther Gokhale (posture expert and creator of the
Gokhale Method) and Christiane Northrup, M.D. (ob/gyn physician; leading
authority in the field of women’s health and wellness) for a Fireside Chat. The
pair will discuss freeing up your energy and attention by getting rid of aches
and pains; avoiding gynecological challenges related to poor posture (prolapsed
organs, pelvic floor dysfunction, etc.); and coming into your own power.
How it works?
You will learn to sit, sleep, stand, walk, and bend in
ways that protect and strengthen you instead of wear and tear you.
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Sitting will be comfortable, either with a
backrest when you place your back in therapeutic traction (stretchsitting) or
without a backrest, when you stack your spine on a well-positioned, anteverted
pelvis (stacksitting).
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Sleeping will be comfortable and provide hours
of restorative traction, whether lying on your back or side (stretchlying).
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Standing will be a resting position for most of
the muscles of the body with the weight-bearing bones vertically stacked over
the heels (tallstanding).
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Bending will involve hinging at the hip rather
than the waist, exercising the long back muscles and sparing the spinal discs
and ligaments (hip-hinging).
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Actions that challenge spinal structures, such
as carrying or twisting, will involve deep layers of muscles in the abdomen and
back (inner corset) to protect the spine.
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Walking will be a series of smooth forward
propulsions, challenging the muscles of the lower body and sparing the
weight-bearing joints throughout the body (glidewalking).
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In relearning these everyday actions, you will
reposition and reshape your shoulders, arms, neck, torso, pelvis, hips, legs,
and feet the way they were designed to be. You will develop a high level of
confidence in and sense of control over your well-being.
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Once you have learned the basic principles, you
integrate them into all positions and movements. Your everyday activities will
once again become therapeutic.
Light refreshments will be provided, and childcare will
be available (provided by Blossom Birth).
Cost: Free
