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Jul 30, 2024
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📐First you need to engage your core at all times—this doesn’t mean sucking it in and keeping it tight; it’s more like gently, ever so slightly drawing your belly button up and back towards your spine and breathing through your diagram just enough to keep those muscles activated. Strengthen your core—it protects the spine and gives you the power to keep all of your other muscles engaged!
When standing, your head, heart (shoulders and upper chest), hips, and feet should ideally be in alignment. Obviously the same goes for sitting as far as the torso is concerned.
People tend to: * have forward neck posture from mouth breathing and being on their phones—pull your head back and keep your chin lifted! (Try yoga for text neck) * slouch and slump in their shoulders—pull the heads of your shoulders back and rotate them outwards; retract your shoulder blades by drawing them back and towards the spine. * tilt and lean their pelvis and hips—your tailbone should be scooping forward and down and your hips should ideally be perpendicular to the floor.
Check yourself throughout the day and see if you’re in alignment.
It takes active work to have good posture. Your posture-supporting muscles are most likely weak. I would recommend light body weight strength training like Pilates, barre, or yoga and I would also encourage you to do chakra yoga—starting at the root chakra and working your way up. This will help you systematically get into alignment at every chakra which are essentially the posture points I identified above (I love Jen Hilman’s 7-day chakra series).
You might want to look into somatic yoga and Pilates and body scan meditations too because you’re probably not very aware of your body.
I sit on the front edge of seats whenever I’m not lounging on the couch (deeply engrained habit from playing viola for years). I think this helps because it’s very easy to slouch when you’re leaning on the back of a chair for support rather than using your own muscles to stay upright.
There have been times where I’ve regressed and I bought an adjustable posture corrector to help—they’re like tight backpack straps for both shoulders that connect in the back and pull your shoulders back.
That’s about all I can say… posture is very important to me because it’s essential for your health and we’ll-being and it makes you appear confident and elegant. hope this helps! 💋
When standing, your head, heart (shoulders and upper chest), hips, and feet should ideally be in alignment. Obviously the same goes for sitting as far as the torso is concerned.
People tend to: * have forward neck posture from mouth breathing and being on their phones—pull your head back and keep your chin lifted! (Try yoga for text neck) * slouch and slump in their shoulders—pull the heads of your shoulders back and rotate them outwards; retract your shoulder blades by drawing them back and towards the spine. * tilt and lean their pelvis and hips—your tailbone should be scooping forward and down and your hips should ideally be perpendicular to the floor.
Check yourself throughout the day and see if you’re in alignment.
It takes active work to have good posture. Your posture-supporting muscles are most likely weak. I would recommend light body weight strength training like Pilates, barre, or yoga and I would also encourage you to do chakra yoga—starting at the root chakra and working your way up. This will help you systematically get into alignment at every chakra which are essentially the posture points I identified above (I love Jen Hilman’s 7-day chakra series).
You might want to look into somatic yoga and Pilates and body scan meditations too because you’re probably not very aware of your body.
I sit on the front edge of seats whenever I’m not lounging on the couch (deeply engrained habit from playing viola for years). I think this helps because it’s very easy to slouch when you’re leaning on the back of a chair for support rather than using your own muscles to stay upright.
There have been times where I’ve regressed and I bought an adjustable posture corrector to help—they’re like tight backpack straps for both shoulders that connect in the back and pull your shoulders back.
That’s about all I can say… posture is very important to me because it’s essential for your health and we’ll-being and it makes you appear confident and elegant. hope this helps! 💋
Dec 7, 2024
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📏My little sis who is in high school told me that my bad posture was part of my charm. Oh HELLLL nah!!
My posture better be perfect this time next year
My posture better be perfect this time next year
Dec 30, 2024
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⭐i feel much more comfortable posting here, talking about the things i like, interacting with people and posts, it just feels more comfortable and free- i feel more like myself and that it's okay to be myself, i don't have this pressure that everything needs to be kinda "curated" in a specific way or "image" which is something that i felt with for example instagram. i like the sense of community here better than on other social media and i like the fact that it just feels much more creative on here than other apps( creative as in, the app itself, myself and other people).
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⭐sitting in the park, on a bench that's half light, half shade;
later, walking very slowly through the park, just looking around;
honorable mentions from today: a little kid whose face was completely covered in chocolate icecream, a man in a nice linen shirt, two dogs that looked exactly the same(although one was smaller, the other one larger, they looked like a big and a mini version of eachother), a tree with leaves that reminded us of stars(Liquidambar styraciflua or sweetgum tree) and a crow that was trying to bury a grey BIC lighter it found