Find your primal posture and sit without back pain: Esther Gokhale at TEDxStanford

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended in back pain and posture threads as a short, practical idea that helped some commenters.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

TEDx Talks

Topic

posture and back pain

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2018

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From the original HN conversations

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• I haven't read all the other comments so not sure if this has been mentioned already. The modern concepts of posture may be wrong. I have a curved butt to shoulder area. It makes me look somewhat duck like. However, I never have any back …

• I read about this a long time ago in a book by Esther gokhale called lose the back pain. I think she called it stack sitting iirc. There was another thing in the book that has really helped me over the years and it's called …

• [VIDEO] I found this Ted talk helped me with some lower back and leg issues. I don't do exactly what she demonstrates in the video, but I find focusing on the 'tail out' posture helps a lot. Also regular breaks and going for walks.