Gokhale Method
a postural awareness technique developed by acupuncturist and yoga instructor Esther Gokhale
The Gokhale Method or Primal Posture method is a postural awareness technique developed by acupuncturist and yoga instructor Esther Gokhale. The method proposes that certain patterns exist in the way people in pre-modern and less industrialized societies move and adopt posture. Gokhale claims that these patterns, which she calls primal posture, can be learned through practice. The method became popular in the beginning of the 2010s among professionals in the Silicon Valley, where Gokhale is located.
History
Gokhale started searching for a method to cope with her own back pain, including sciatica and spinal disc herniation, which began with her first pregnancy.
She based the method on training in the Feldenkrais method and from a French organization for postural awareness called the Aplomb Institute. Gokhale claims she spent ten years observing and photographing people's posture in less industrialized societies. Gokhale started teaching in a studio at Palo Alto, California.
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The result of Esther Gokhale's observations was an eight-step method that emphasizes a posture with a J-shaped spine as the ideal form, created through repositioning the pelvis. The method emphasizes training posture through everyday activities, rather than exercise, and involves as much unlearning former habits of poor posture as learning new habits of good posture.
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