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Posture Zones and Chakras
Body Awareness, Body Map, Posture Improvement, yoga, Spine Mary Bond Body Awareness, Body Map, Posture Improvement, yoga, Spine Mary Bond

Posture Zones and Chakras

A few years ago, yoga instructor David Thornton, asked me whether I’d been thinking about the chakras when I described the posture zones in The New Rules of Posture.  Here’s what I wrote to David:  I understand the chakras to be energy vortices located along the body’s central energy channel that affect all aspects of the person—body/mind/spirit.  The chakras have spiritual or emotional content that impedes the free flow of energy through the core of the being…

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Posture As A Practice
Body Awareness, Body Map, Muscle Tension, Posture Improvement, Relaxation, Stress, Presence Mary Bond Body Awareness, Body Map, Muscle Tension, Posture Improvement, Relaxation, Stress, Presence Mary Bond

Posture As A Practice

If you read between the lines, you probably sense that under the banner of “The New Rules of Posture,” I’m actually sharing a somatic practice–a physical path to self-knowledge.  Here’s what I wrote in The New Rules: to improve your posture you need to 1) “create new sense memories for what feels balanced and stable…” and 2) view “your posture as an ongoing perceptual process by which you orient yourself to gravity and to your relationship with the people, objects and events in your world.” Not something you do once and forget about.  It’s a practice…

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