The Posture Dojo Podcast with Sam Miller
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Sam Miller has built a healing community for sharing his approach with other young men and women whose spines have been compromised. Read more about our conversation last year…
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Patellafemoral Syndrome
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Best of all, I’ve had fleeting moments of sensing something new and important about my stance in the world.
Read MorePosture and Your Pelvis
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The highly mobile hip joints combined with plasticity between sacrum and ilia, offer the body a dynamic relationship between the spine and the ground.
Read MoreHow to Sit in Your Car
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Car designers seem to devise seats to support the lowest common denominator of posture, believing that people need soft seats that cradle the derriere, and backrests that ignore the capacity of your spine to support itself.
Read MoreUse Your Toes to Protect Your Knees
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When there’s a problem in the knee, there are probably imbalances in the feet. My friend had no complaints about her feet, but when I watched her move I could see that, especially on the side of her knee surgery, she wasn’t using the full articulation of her foot.
Read MorePosture in Motion
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I practice yoga to keep my fascia silky enough and my joints adaptable enough that my coordination can stay smooth even as the aging process diminishes my stamina. Yet, here I was, post yoga class, walking in this awkward way. I teach movement, for heaven’s sake. How had I slid into this familial pattern?
Read MoreShoes and Scoliosis
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Ballet flats aren’t cute on a misaligned foot. If the foundation in the feet doesn’t support the body above, another region of the body will take on the responsibility for support—a knee, a hip or even the shoulders. Misalignment leads to more misalignment, and more tension.
Read MoreMicromovement, Saliva and Posture
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Today I learned something important about the micromovement of my tongue.
Read MoreTalk at Google: How to Sit, Stand and Move in the Modern World
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Jumping off from the subtitle of The New Rules of Posture, I spoke about fascia, pandiculation, tensegrity, ergonomic chairs, spatial orientation, and manspreading. If you enjoy it, please share!
Read MoreOffice Chairs and Sitting
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When you sit with your thighs slanting downhill, your pelvis automatically finds an orientation that supports a neutral lumbar spine. When a chair is too low, your pelvis rolls posterior so your weight rests too far back—on your tailbone—and your spine above becomes compressed.
Read MoreManspread Explained
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To roll forward onto an upright pelvis often requires a manual adjustment men would rather not make in public. He told me about friction between the fabric of jeans, an undergarment, and the skin of the scrotum. Especially when the weather is warm . . .
Read MoreThe Feet of the Pelvis
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I began to be curious about how that deep front line of the leg might affect or be affected by the deep line within my torso. What was my psoas muscle up to?
Read MorePosture and Procrastination
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I don't think the earth feels equally solid to everyone, or even equally solid to anyone from one moment to the next. In this moment, I only seem to be relaxing. In fact I'm in a state of procrastination and my to-do list looms in the air about three feet away.
Read MoreFascia and Fitness
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Healthy, hydrated fascia is an essential ingredient in enduring youthfulness and grace of movement. The stiffness we experience when we begin to age is a sign that fascial layers are dehydrated and are becoming adhered to one another.
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