Helping You Achieve a Pain Free Life & Living

Educating people about the profound effects and empowering simplicity of a corrective exercise program like posture alignment corrective exercise  is the best job in the whole world!

Can a corrective exercise program like posture alignment therapy help alleviate sciatica pain?  

I'm pleased to present a guest blog today discussing tips to alleviate hip pain and ways to avoid surgery.  

Aloha!  I'm writing to you all from beautiful Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii!   I'm here to teach a Posture Alignment Specialist Certification Seminar.  

I can't possibly communicate with accurate depth how grateful I am to be in Kailua right now.  It feels like I've come full circle in my professional career, and in fact, it truly has.

I am teaching PAS 1 & 2 Seminar at Pilates Training Center Hawaii, the very place where I first found posture alignment therapy.  

Back in May of 2007, I had the opportunity to fly to Oahu for the day to visit.  While at PTCH, I saw another Pilates instructor working with a client.  While in the midst of a private pilates session, she was modifying a movement with a style almost identical to my own.  

I can never express how seeing that practically knocked me over.  In almost 10 years of teaching pilates, and almost 20 years of teaching movement, I had NEVER seen anyone else look at the person as a whole unit.

Although the client was in a pilates session, the instructor identified a joint dysfunction which limited the correct movement and function required of the exercise.  The pilates instructor, Jeebee Yim was masterfully addressing her client's joint dysfunction with a corrective exercise (hooklying knee pillow squeezes) to create the proper demand.  

I had been doing just that with my own clients for years!  If the client couldn't do it, I was determined to figure out what wasn't happening in the body and then create a path and a way to facilitate it.

Today we have a guest blog by Lisa Meyer of Pain Free Performance in Charlottesville, VA.  Lisa discusses how chronic inflammation of the joints develops due to imbalanced postural position. 

I completely agree with Lisa.  When there are misalignments in the four major load joints, the cumulative results of imbalances is low grade joint inflammation.  Left unaddressed, overtime, this inflammation is the root cause of a multitude of serious osteoarthritic problems.  

Postural alignment therapy with a Certified Posture Alignment Specialist plays a huge and positive role in helping to reduce chronic inflammation of the joints.  I've seen it happen hundreds of times with my own clients.  However, in my opinion, I would also like to point out that human beings are more than just a body.  Posture is just one component of the whole picture.

It's time to get caught up on our series The 3 Biggest Mistakes you can Make with Postural Therapy. 

If you've missed our previous posts make sure to get caught up on the discussion by visiting:

• The Three Biggest Mistakes you can Make with Postural Therapy

• Mistake #1 with Postural Therapy

• 4 Ways to Correct Mistake #1 with Postural Therapy

• Mistake #2 with Postural Therapy

Mistake # 3 With Postural Therapy

You tried a menu out of one of the books on your own without the help of a Certified Posture Alignment Specialist.  While trying the menu of exercises you:

Around a year ago I posted a blog called My Top 10 Pete Egoscue Quotes.  Imagine my surprise when the other day I ran into another similar blog written by my colleage Jaz Reis.

I'd like to share a beautiful and touching guest blog post with you all today from a fellow colleague of mine. Natalia Dashkovskaya is a Certified Posture Alignment Specialist and owns Upright Posture Fitness (Hudson, MA).  

Natalia shares her personal insight on how she learned to find growth and advantages in the midst of some very challenging life circumstances that came her way.  Her testimonial is a fantastic example of What Inspires Your Postural Therapy Practice?.  

In the midst of tasting lemons, she applied the concepts of what she learned about practicing posture alignment therapy to look at difficult/challenging circumstances in a new way and make lemonade.  Not only did it first serve as a successful way for her to personally overcome her own chronic back pain, but as motivation to change her career path.  I hope you enjoy Natalia's honest and insightful personal story of inspiration.

Today I had the chance to work with an excellent CrossFit athlete on his posture, function and mobility after a WOD, and it got me energized from the inside out! I absolutely love what I do!

As I drove back home I started to think about all the things I love about being a Certified Posture Alignment Specialist.

I truly enjoy teaching people about the potential of the human body to perform according to it's blue-print design.  To me there's absolutely nothing better in the world than helping someone understand that it's the body (the position) going into the activity not the symptom (the pain, restriction/muscle-joint imbalance) that is the root cause of blocking athletic performance/activities of daily living.

To bring balance to the body through the power of simple corrective exercises then stepping back to watch a person see and feel the change in their body and then be able to go straight out and perform a movement better - it makes me feel like I'm fulfilling my purpose in life! 

Yesterday I had the joy of sharing one of my client's story of inspiration - The Tarahumara. So I decided to pull out an old blog I wrote back in 2011 about my own story of bare foot running.  I hope you enjoy it.