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	• 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back: Natural Posture Solutions for Pain in the Back, Neck, Shoulder, Hip, Knee, and ... Esther Gokhale Pendo Press, 2008 - 244 pages average customer review:based on 112 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back: Natural Posture Solutions for Pain in the Back, Neck, Shoulder, Hip, Knee, and Foot (Remember When

Well written and illustrated. Not only is it informative, but it is interesting and life changing. I wish everyone with poor posture would read this.

Wonderful!

I love this book. It is such a wonderfully relaxed way to have good posture and a pain-free back. With this method, you don't feel like you are overly exaggerating postural moves, but just learning the natural, relaxed way to stand, walk and just live.

Finally Learning Good Posture

The directions are precise and the step-by-step photos walk you through the life-changing posture advice. I started with the glide-walking technique and moved on to other steps. This book is exactly what I needed to rebuild my strength and protect my back after surgery for a herniated disc. Finally I know what healthy posture is. I have recommended this book to many friends.

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A must read for back pain

I first saw this book in a physical therapist's office. The colorful photos and easy introduction caught my attention. It was clear to me in just a few pages that we have sorely gone off track with our posture in the United States and elsewhere.

I bought the book and found the exercises approachable and easy to do. They helped me with my back pain. Esther Gohkale does a great job of breaking down the activities into simple easy steps to follow. Most people will find the sitting, standing and lying exercises doable just from reading the book. The same is true of the other content. There are some great stretches in the back as well.

I've had several people, including a pulmonologist whom I respect a lot for his analysis and pragmatic approach, tell me that Esther Gohkale's methods changed their lives. If you read this book, you'll see it just makes sense. She's not proposing anything funny, unusual or even innovative. We used to sit and stand this way years ago. She's just taking us back to the basics. I have also eliminated my back pain by making these important changes to my posture. Frankly, I think this book should be required reading for everyone. We should teach it in schools too. I'm a big believer!

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become a philosopher of your own body

While I suppose the book title is really a product of a marketing person ("People have back pain! Lets give 'em 8 easy steps! We'll sell millions!" it really doesn't do justice to what the book is really about. Fixing back pain is a byproduct of what Esther Gokhale tries to have us understand in her beautifully photographed and laid out book. Her main point seems to be that our experience of everyday pain in our bodies is a product of poorly designed modern world that despite its trappings of comfort actually makes us disconnected from and uncomfortable in our own bodies. She wants us all to reconnect to the natural strength and functionality of our bodies that have been lost. But the book hardly is a rant against the ills of modern society it takes a serious look at people from around the world who lead much more physically strenuous lives than most of us yet experience no physical pain anything like what the average desk jockey does.

Gokhale doesn't want us to all live like the wandering Hunza people (for example) but she does admire and dissect the way that people around the world walk, stand, sit, lie down and carry things in a way that her simple methodology makes you understand that "standing up straight" doesn't mean puffing out your chest, arching your back and shrugging your shoulders into your ears. Gokhale offers a new vision for living in the modern world comfortably in our bodies by looking at the movement patterns of a world quite foreign to us by widening our understanding of movement, posture, body mechanics and physiology.

The book is practical and simple and aesthetically pleasing and useful even if you just leaf through it. Ultimately you can gain even more by taking a workshop with her.

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