Good Posture

1. Awareness of Self

The first step is to become more aware of your own body and how your emotions and internal body chemistry affect the way you look, behave and move. One of the best ways is to observe others - your trainer, the other participants in the workshop, animals, plants and even inanimate objects like a table!

Also to become aware and, most importantly, accept any weaknesses or blockages whether they are physical e.g. arthritis, injury, pregnancy, permanent disability, illness or emotional e.g. stress, feelings of inadequacy...

Learn to stay in the present - not to impose past judgements on your experiences - let go of opinions, which only serve to keep you stuck in your old knowledge, in the past. Or maybe you live in the future, starting new before finishing the old, imposing past preconceptions to create future anxiety. Your opinions block new light from flowing in by narrowing down your vision.

2. Principles of Weight Distribution & Stability

Using a number of different methods (no one way suits everyone), including osteopathic principles, QiGong, Tai Chi, Alexander Technique and yoga principles, you will learn both the theory and practice behind posture and movement.

Your individual posture type is assessed and areas of tension or slackness addressed with simple, effective exercises that are easy to adapt into every day living.

Want to learn how your body works?

Want to achieve beautiful posture easily and effortlessly?

Join us at one of our workshops

Course Schedule

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The theme is based on 3 easy steps to good posture and aims to teach that posture is not some sort of static, frozen ideal but is soft, mobile, fluid and dynamic!

This is a primarily practical workshop for those wishing to attain poise and ease of movement. Taught by Julia Williams and Paddy Dickinson in small groups, you will also receive individual assessment, diagnosis and teaching. You will take home a workbook of all the concepts covered and taught, along with your individual plan of action.

This is usually a weekend course. We can also arrange in-house corporate workshops

3. Practice

Once you have become aware of yourself in easy, fluid posture and have learnt the principles of stability, it is important not to jump to thinking about how you be standing or sitting or moving.

By focussing on the principles you take away that internal dialogue “will I lose balance” or “will I stiffen up”; self-doubt increases emotion and emotion produces force - by focussing on the process, the outcome takes care of itself.

‘Nature's intelligence functions with effortless ease. Grass doesn't try to grow, it just grows like flowers they just bloom. So when things don't go your way for the moment let go of the way you think they should be and realise there may be a bigger picture....’ Deepak Chopra

‘Be more like water than like rock’ Taoism