Esther Gokhale, B.S., presenting at the Ancestral Health Symposium (AHS12).
Restoring Our Primal Architecture
Abstract:
The Gokhale Method is a systematic and effective approach that helps people in modern cultures restore the primal posture and movement patterns they had as young children. These patterns are also found in our hunter gatherer ancestors, our great great grandparents, and in people in non-industrial cultures today.
At the Gokhale Method Institute, we see posture to be a missing cornerstone in the modern understanding of health. Along with healthy diet, exercise and emotional state, structure informs physical, physiological and even psychological health. But it’s importance gets reduced to a few counterproductive dictums like “Sit up straight,” “S-shaped spine,” “chin up” and “chest out.” The Gokhale Method demedicalizes back pain and rather sees back pain, as well as a number of foot, neck and joint issues, as the result of inadequate cultural and educational influence. The Method teaches techniques like stretchsitting, stacksitting, stretchlying, use of the inner corset, hip-hinging and glidewalking as ways to regain one’s original posture and a pain-free life.
This presentation will compare and contrast modern posture, medically prescribed posture and primal posture. Participants will gain an understanding of why people in modern industrial cultures have an 85% – 90% incidence of back pain compared with a 5% to 7% incidence in people in non-industrial cultures.
Gokhale will introduce participants to stretchsitting, the inner corset and the most accessible aspects of glidewalking. Participants will leave with posture tips and tricks as well as a road map to a life of higher function and no pain.
Bio:
Esther Gokhale is the author of 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back and creator of the Gokhale Method. After studying biochemistry at Harvard and Princeton, Esther became a licensed acupuncturist. Following unsuccessful back surgery, she created the Gokhale Method which is now taught by certified teachers all over the world.
