Английская Википедия:Gokhale Method
The Gokhale Method or Primal Posture method is a postural awareness technique developed by acupuncturist and yoga instructor Esther Gokhale.[1] 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 Шаблон:Dfn, 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.[2][3]
History
Gokhale started searching for a method to cope with her own back pain,[3] including sciatica and spinal disc herniation, which began with her first pregnancy.[4]
She based the method on training in the Feldenkrais Method and from a French organization for postural awareness called the Aplomb Institute.[2][5] Gokhale claims she spent ten years observing and photographing people's posture in less industrialized societies.[5][4][6] Gokhale started teaching in a studio at Palo Alto, California.[4]
Features
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.[2][4] The method emphasizes training posture through everyday activities, rather than exercise,[3] and involves as much Шаблон:Em former habits of poor posture as learning new habits of good posture. Postural training involves the shoulders, neck, back, hips and knees,[6][7] and incorporates yoga and dance.[8][9] Moreover, the method aims to elongate the spine and lessen the burden on the lower back.[10]
The method consists of consecutive steps, with instructions on how to sit, stand, lie down, bend over, walk, and lift heavy objects.[11][12] Gokhale uses kinesthetic, visual and intellectual teaching methods in her classes.[8][13] Claiming legitimacy from medical literature and anatomical arguments,[8] Gokhale has made statements that certain medical conditions such as RSI (repetitive strain injury) are strongly related to posture and can be solved by improving posture.[14] She has also spoken out against the widespread notion that "sitting is the new smoking", stating that "we are much better designed than that".[15][16]
Gokhale has published a book and a DVD about the method.[17] She has stated in interviews that her ultimate aim of teaching the Gokhale Method is to make the method widespread and thereby change what she describes as a culture of posture,[18] saying that parents and teachers' examples affect children's posture.[19]
Reception and analysis
The method quickly caught on in the Bay Area, as she has been described as the "posture guru of Silicon Valley".[4] Apart from the United States, the method has been taught in the United Kingdom, Germany and The Netherlands.[5]
One of the foundational assertions of the Gokhale Method, that people in minimally industrialized societies have less back pain,[4] lacks support in mainstream science. According to a 2004 review, "Until recently it was largely thought of as a problem confined to western countries but research performed during the last decade clearly showed that low back pain is also a major problem in low- and middle-income countries."[20] For example, arthritis of the spine was common in pre-contact Native American populations.[21] Шаблон:As of the Gokhale Method had not been scientifically studied.[2]
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