Archive for the ‘Healthy Posture’ Category
Do you experience neck pain or tension? Does your neck get tight and limit your movement? Many students who come to my classes experience neck pain, as well as headaches and restricted range-of-motion. This can be miserable and lead you to tense up even more to try to avoid triggering the pain cycle again. In [...]
Check out this video which will show you how to sit pain-free. This should make some of my previous blog posts more clear. Try it out and let me know how it works for you! © 2011 Dana K. Davis
You’ve seen it before: kids sitting down texting, with their heads slumped way forward, hanging in front of their spines. It’s becoming more and more common due to our typical American “out of Balance” posture combined with the amount of time we spend sitting and looking at some sort of electronic screen. 1 What’s the [...]
I meet a lot of people who have been injured doing yoga and are afraid to try it again. Others who have never done yoga may be fearful of the “pretzel” poses that they see on the covers of yoga magazines. I’d like to give you some helpful tips so you can do yoga safely, [...]
Check out these photos from Russia, taken between 1909-1912. Notice the bending at the hip crease, sitting on the sitz bones. Beautiful! http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed2
When I was in India in 1988 studying yoga and meditation, I took an intensive meditation course one weekend. We had little squares to sit in on the floor – maybe 2 feet by 2 feet. It was hard to stay in the little square all day without squirming. I got more and more uncomfortable, [...]
Thanks to Anneli Rufus for her great article about me in the East Bay Express this week (1/5/11)! To check out the article, you can go to: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/sitting-up-straight-with-dana-davis/Content?oid=2335223 The workshop this Sunday in Berkeley is full, so if you want to get on the waiting list, go ahead and register online at www.sonomabodybalance.com.
When I was 17 I didn’t pay too much attention to the warning to “wear your seat belt.” One day I was driving with a friend, going about 30-35 miles an hour, when she crashed into the car in front of us. Afterwards, when I asked how that big crack in the windshield got there, [...]
I just came back from 5 days of training at the Balance Center (www.balancecenter.com) where I studied with 2 of the teachers from the Aplomb Institute in Paris. This is the school of Noelle Perez-Christiaens, who is the originator of the posture work that I teach. Georgia and Christine have elegant, graceful posture, and look [...]
Yikes! Someone forwarded to me a link to this article on Scholastic’s website (www.scholastic.com) today, entitled “Classroom Organization: The Physical Environment.” I got annoyed at how persistent unhealthy posture is in our culture, and how it’s promoted by adults. So I had to write them a letter. I reprinted it for you below. If you [...]