Sitting Posture

[raymangame]

Nice body!

[roymstat]

My pleasure - thanks for letting me know :0)

[Robbybox333]

Applying this one little strategy has made a more impressive difference to my posture than anything else Ive found on YouTube. Thank you so much!

[xXGiBBsXx]

Eso es sólo cuando estás buena! xD jajaja

[210482fmj]

this might sound funny but i have come across the most comftable shape for the palm of the hand. i discovered it like this. try it out and you'll be amazed. Take a food lade turned upisde down with hollow side facing down and just see how supportive and comfortable it feel on the palm with no pointed edges. this spherical shape makes the perfec palm support. i want a mouse which is shaped exactly like a half circle or spherical object cut in half. try it for urself and you will be amazed

[SonsoftheProphets]

How come her back isn't resting on the chair? My back would ache for hours if I didn't rest it on my chair.

[Samogon2009]

I can't sit like that for more then 1 minute :(

[ogfunk187]

@Samogon2009, yes i remember my first alexander lesson and thinking that, but it gets alot easier over time.

[alxivanov]

This is all well and good, but problem is, most of us don't have the quality of awareness to be correcting our posture. :) Having said that, I do realize that your video does contribute towards increasing such awareness. Meantime, it may help to invest in an ergonomic seating solution. And it doesn't have to be an expensive chair. Nothing beats perching on a stool, for instance, and alternating this with standing. (A height-adjustable table like the Sit-Stand desk does come in handy though ;)

[roymstat]

Yes you can so long as you tilt back from the pelvis and don't let your lower back round. I find its best to alternate between the front and the back of the chair if you're sitting for long periods.

[faYte0607]

When sitting in front of a computer chair, can we just lay back on the chair? I can't imagine sitting like how the woman is sitting 8 hours a day during work in front of a computer.....

[shamblestonite]

Just seen this on your site,as I'm thinking of buying your program, but just wanted to ask, you mention just sitting up straight doesn't improve your posture but here you're just demonstrating the same idea it seems of just telling yourself to sit differently? how can I keep this up long term constantly having to think because I'll just forget or does your program offer something different?

[roymstat]

It's about changing your habits. It does take a bit of practice to start with but eventually it will become a habit 'not' to slump. The program contains a number of techniques and movements that will help to improve your body knowledge and therefore make it easier for you to do these positions etc.

[shamblestonite]

Wow that was a fast response, I think I'll consider the program, it's just after I stopped doing my physio exercises years ago it's gotten bad, I just needed something I can maintain in time,thanks.

[roymstat]

You could say I was sitting on the edge of my seat waiting :0) The beauty of this program is that you don't need to set time aside for exercises as they are done as part of your daily activities.

[yogikanna]

@shamblestonite take alexander technique lessons. It will help you increase awareness of your use of the body/mind. All kinds of problems created by incorrect use can be healed by bringing awareness in through the alexander technique. And also you will start to get lot of compliments from others regarding how good your posture and use looks. Good luck!

[shamblestonite]

@yogikanna @yogikanna

thanks for that tip, I tried a few AT lessons and unfortunately still struggle, I guess I need the money to keep taking more lessons as the concepts are hard to grasp and apply in just 6 sessions 1hourp/wk, having said that I did find it healing and look to try again soon hopefully, thanks for the reminder! -)

[yogikanna]

@shamblestonite That's great that you took some AT Lessons. Yes it takes a while to understand the concepts. REad the book by Pedro De Alacantra, its pretty good. Take atleast 2 lessons per week in the beginning, then you can switch to 1 lesson per week. I a really slow, It took me 6 months to start to understand what was going on. After a year it all comes togather. It is really the best investment in my life. GOod luck!

[CoralBalmoral]

What a great tip in just a couple of minutes. Seems to help me...

[elmauro]

i found the first spoken sentence of this video quite depressing

[MrJuggy2009]

@elmauro Exactly, thats not true if you dont want that.

'You will spend most of your life sitting at a desk' BS SOCIAL CONDITIONING

[roymstat]

You are probably still trying to 'sit up straight' and holding tension in your neck. Let the weight of your head pass down your spine into the chair and check you are not holding your lower back in.

[mayorde18]

but when i relax my back, it goes down, and looks really curved.-.. not like this chick

usually i rest lying on my bed witouth pillows

and sit in seiza (japanese) position

[roymstat]

Try relaxing your back whilst thinking that your breast bone stays where it is, otherwise you just collapse.

[debiltin]

the problem is very often habitual patterns, and it doesnt help to write down correct posture, or to say simple things like "do not do sit like this and that" when the person at hand cannot differenciate between stressed, naturally aligned and collapsed due to faulty censory awareness.

For example "letting the weight of the head pass down the spine" can very easily be misunderstood as a negative direction.

[roymstat]

You're right but we have to start somewhere bearing in mind the limitations of video.

[fyzanur]

my neck hurts whenever i sit like this.. cant sit like this for too long :(