Mindfulness and Natural Alignment: A Perfect Partnership
Mindful Body Podcast
Natural Alignment and Mindfulness serve to build upon and. . enhance each other. Putting them together at the same time is one of the best thing you can ever do for yourself, and you will never regret it.
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Meet Your Feet
Mindful Body Podcast
Feet are a masterpiece of engineering that are designed by nature to support us throughout the decades of our lifetime. Join Kathleen Porter as she guides you through simple exercises for beginning to rebuild feet that are solidly strong and flexible and designed to support a healthy body above them.
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Relief & Success — Patra Conley's Story
Mindful Body Podcast
In this episode of AlignNOW, Patra Conley tells her story about how learning about our human body's natural alignment took her from early 'retirement,' back to being able to discover how to live pain free and resume her career as a massage therapist, as well as hiking and playing music. She kindly shared photos of herself that reveal her transformation, before and after she learned how to apply principles of natural alignment. A visual summary handout is available at kathleenporter.com/blog/4 .
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Nature's Rules—As Old as the Hills
Mindful Body Podcast
Our human connection with Nature and Science can be directly experienced through our own individual body—a body that we don't just have as a possession, but a body that we are—as a way of being in the world.
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How to Sit LIke a Happy Dog
Mindful Body Podcast
In Episode 2, Kathleen guides listeners from slouching to solid and relaxed uprightness by learning the natural position of the pelvis that supports healthy sitting. Using the same dog analogy that has been so effective in working with children in the classroom, she reveals how the position of the pelvis determines whether or not we are able to sit with comfort and ease or if we struggle with collapsed or overly tense posture that so often results from a lack of an aligned pelvic foundation.
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AlignNOW Episode 1: What the Heck is Good Posture, Anyway?
Mindful Body Podcast
Kathleen Porter, explains how she rid herself of decades of chronic stiffness and pain by learning how to re-learn the natural posture she originally discovered as a baby and a toddler. Now 72-years-old, she continues to reap the benefits of inhabiting her body in this naturally aligned way.
info_outlineOur human connection with Nature and Science can be directly experienced through our own individual body—a body that we don't just have as a possession, but a body that we are—as a way of being in the world.
Modern day posture and innate posture are very different. One is an adaptation, something contrived, while the other is as old as the hills.
This episode focuses on the relationship between old-as-the-hills Nature and its relationship with Science, which, it can be argued, always existed even before humans came along and discovered it, building a language and field of study around it. It's in these and countless other ways that Nature and Science converge and overlap. It's easy to think of Nature and Science as being very different from each other. Nature is all about magnificence, mystery and splendor, while Science is precise, factual, and predictable.
This episode includes a guided exercise for experiencing Ground Reaction Force, a scientific phenomenon that relates to Newton's Third Law of Motion.
GRF explains an energetic exchange between the human body and the Earth, which is the driving force for movement of humans and all other animals.