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_outlineI’ve never interviewed anyone before. This was fun and easy to do, because Patra Conley is someone I already know, and she loves to talk and share her thoughts and ideas, and she has a great sense of humor. Best of all, she is as big a fan of natural alignment as I am, having reaped many benefits from learning how to apply this to her own life.
Patra was living and working on the Big Island of Hawai'i when she had to stop working due to the pain she was experiencing in her neck and shoulders. She subsequently moved to Portland, Oregon, to explore other work opportunities.
In this episode she tells her story about how learning about principles of natural alignment took her from early 'retirement' back to being able to resume here career as a massage therapist.
After Patra learned principles of natural alignment and began to apply them to how she inhabited her body and moved in the course of her daily activities, big changes took place that led to a transformation in her life. In time, she was able to return to work as a massage therapist, as well as enjoying hiking and playing music without difficulty or pain.
The visual summary handout that can be downloaded with this episode at katleenporter.com/4 includes some great photos of Patra “before” and “after” her transformation, which she was kind enough to share with us.