Sitting is an activity as old as our species. Our ancestors sat to tan hides, weave baskets, and make pottery. The Buddha sat to achieve enlightenment and meditators around the world continue the tradition today. In recent times, sitting has come under attack in slogans such as “Sitting Kills, Moving Heals” and “Sitting is the New Smoking.”
What is the evidence against sitting? Are there benefits to sitting? How can we avail ourselves of the benefits and curtail the risks of sitting? Are there healthy ways to sit? The Gokhale Method’s unique perspective on sitting can help you navigate the do’s and don’ts of this ubiquitous activity. In this participatory workshop/presentation expect to shed old ideas, gain new ones, get a posture lift, and enjoy one hour of seated entertainment punctuated by healthy breaks.
Esther Gokhale (Go-clay) has been involved in integrative therapies all her life. As a young girl growing up in India, she helped her mother, a nurse, treat abandoned babies waiting to be adopted. This early interest in healing led her to study biochemistry at Harvard and Princeton and, later, acupuncture at the San Francisco School of Oriental Medicine where she became a licensed acupuncturist.
After experiencing crippling back pain during her first pregnancy and unsuccessful back surgery, Gokhale began her lifelong crusade to vanquish back pain. Her studies at the Aplomb Institute in Paris and years of research in Brazil, India, Portugal and elsewhere led her to develop the Gokhale Method®, a unique, systematic approach to help people find their bodies’ way back to pain-free living.
Gokhale has practiced acupuncture and taught posture, dance and yoga in her Palo Alto wellness center for over twenty years. Her Gokhale Method Foundations course is now taught by qualified teachers all over the world. Their offerings, her book, 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back, DVD, posture-friendly cushion, and chair are all available on her website at gokhalemethod.com. In May 2013, The New York Times featured Esther in an article giving her the title, “The Posture Guru of Silicon Valley.”
Gokhale has been a speaker/teacher at corporations such as Google, IDEO, and Mimosa Systems and conferences including TEDx(Stanford), Ancestral Health Symposium, Western Price Foundation Conference, and PrimalCon. She also speaks with medical physician groups including Stanford, PAMF, UCSF and sports teams such as the trainers of the SF 49ers and several Stanford teams. Her method has been featured in publications including The San Francisco Chronicle, Toronto Sun, Chicago- Sun Times, Prevention Magazine, and AAOS.
21 окт 2024
