Pleasant Posture: Finding Integrity & Ease in Being Upright

Pleasant Posture:
Finding Integrity & Ease in Being Upright

with Donna Brooks, BS, RSMT, C-IAYT
Somatic Movement Educator and Yoga Therapist

Thursday, November 30th, 2023 • 7pm – 8pm

FREE!

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Do you find yourself stressing out about posture or unable to "maintain" good posture? 

Struggling with posture is counterproductive. Injuries, stress, and bad habits can cause issues that impact how you sit or stand and limit the activities you participate in, but trying to force your body into a concept about posture won't work because posture is not a fixed position you have to attain. Rather, it is a tone, or expression, of muscles and other tissue in relation to gravity.

Simply put, this means how you walk, move, and most importantly, experience your body impacts your posture to a larger degree than trying to find a static position.

If you find yourself:

• Trying hard to stand "straight" and yet slump
• Developing a hump back despite attempts at correction
• Feeling wobbly or unbalanced
• Struggling with drooping head or shoulders (i.e. looking at the ground)
• Tiring from pinning back your shoulders and tucking your chin and tail
• Holding your breath when you stand "tall" or "straight"
• Worrying about your posture

There is hope!

You can enjoy a healthy and functional posture by using the somatic practices shared by Donna Brooks in this FREE workshop! You will realize that healthy posture is NOT a consequence of forcing your body to sit, stand, or walk “tall," “upright,” or even “aligned."

 
Click the logo above to learn more about Donna and Original Body Wisdom!

Learn more about finding better posture through somatic movement:
- Somatic Practices for Healthy Posture -
- 8 Somatic Breathing Practices to Do Today -
- Relieving Pain and Building Strength -
- Why You Might Need a Walking Course -

 
ABOUT DONNA BROOKS, BS, RSMT, C-IAYT

Donna is a certified Yoga Therapist and a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator with a bachelor's degree from SUNY Stony Brook. She has been teaching yoga since 1981 and somatics since 1993. She is trained in Iyengar yoga and has studied with Somatics pioneers like Thomas Hanna, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and Emilie Conrad. She's also learned about the geometry and physics of movement and momentum with tennis pro Art Carrington as well as through Contact Improvisation, and she is even trained in the healing groundwork of Judith Blackstone.

In the 1980s, Donna worked with Karin Stephen to teach yoga to AIDS patients. She has also presented her approach to using tensegrity and fascia for Parkinson's patients at Dartmouth—Hitchcock Parkinson's conferences, and offered movement labs at Northfield Mount Hermon School, the University of Massachusetts, Norwich University and Greenfield Community College. She has instructed courses for the Pioneer Valley TBI support group, as well as Cancer Connection, and ran an ongoing pain clinic at Valley Medical Group in Greenfield for 6 years.

Ready to meet Donna? Watch her introduction video here, then check out the following:

• Using Somatics for Better Posture
• Balance while Walking
• Walking and Ankle Mobility
• Stop Gripping and Tightening your Pelvic Floor
• True Diaphragmatic Breathing and your Pelvic Floor
• Do you have Pelvic Floor Difficulties?

To get in touch with Donna, you can visit her website at www.originalbodywisdom.com or e-mail donnabrooks@gmail.com