Postural Alignment

Strength and flexibility are keys to good health and long life. Nagging pains or symptoms are not caused by weakness, fragility, or inherently flawed physiology; they are often signs of insufficient food, dehydration, and movement, which creates illness and reduces the quality of life.

Postural Alignment combined with Acupuncture helps:

  • recover and maintain strength and flexibility

  • reveal causes and support the prevention of weakness and pain

  • eliminate chronic pain, allergies, fatigue, immune system weakness, depression, and women’s reproductive health issues

Using a program designed to restore musculoskeletal strength, alignment, and function, Emily’s patients experience additional benefits such as:

  • higher energy

  • a consistent sense of wellbeing

  • improved immune system function

  • improved metabolism

The exercises are easy; they reactivate the body's natural physiological functions to move muscles and joints properly, thus energizing every physiological system.

Many of us (myself included) resist perceiving ourselves as bulletproof to accepting that our bodies are susceptible to various breakdowns. It makes sense that lack of movement or chronically repetitive motion gradually causes our connective tissue to become tight, dehydrated, and dense— hampering comfortable, sustainable movement. Motion Memory is remembering good health—the joy of movement from youth or childhood. Many have forgotten Motion Memory because, in modern life, we haven't been allowed the unrestricted use of our physical inheritance. Remember yourself as a child— marathon pogo stick contests, tree climbing, swimming, running, skipping, dancing, lying down staring at the clouds or the stars, and you will engage your Motion Memory.

The body's inherently economical strategies keep our muscles supporting our joints and skeletal structure. Simple exercise routines (akin to stretching and yoga) correct musculoskeletal imbalances and re-engage muscle and joint function. These imbalances cause us to gradually compensate with postural adjustments that ultimately take their toll on our structural integrity. Examples of lost function and compensation include:

  • one shoulder rotated forward or elevated

  • hips not level or rotated

  • thigh bones rotated in the pelvis, straining the knees or the hip joint

  • neck too far forward of the shoulders, the all too common Tech-Neck

  • one foot flairs outward, and one is straight

Yet, a river of renewal runs through us all. Postural alignment and learning how to maintain alignment relieve excessive wear and tear, stimulate recovery and enable proper movement, decrease inflammation, and improve tissue regeneration. Together, these modalities complement each other to support long-term health and vitality.

Could your posture use a tune-up?

Stand against a wall. Place your heels, hips, shoulders, and head against the wall. Relax your arms by your side, and try to relax in this position for at least two minutes. Listen to where your body starts to complain.

Let Postural Alignment and Acupuncture facilitate the relief of those complaints!