The New Rules of Posture

The New Rules of Posture
How to Sit, Stand and Move in the Modern World
Mary Bond

The new rules of posture is an essential book for anyone looking to improve their posture and feel more at ease in their body it will teach you in simple and easy to follow steps how to reconnect with your body and learn how to use it more efficiently.

"Many people cause their own back and body pain through their everyday bad postural and movement habits, Many sense that their poor posture is probably the root of the problem, but they are unable to change long-standing habits.
In The New Rules of Posture, Mary Bond approaches postural changes from the inside out. She explains that healthy posture comes from a new sense we can learn to feel, not by training our muscles into an ideal shape. She identifies the key anatomical features that impact alignment, particularly in light of our modern sedentary lives, and proposes six zones that help create postural changes: the pelvic floor, the breathing muscles, the abdomen, the hands, the feet and the head. She offers self-help exercises that enable healthy function in each zone as well as information on basic ergonomics and case histories to inspire us to think about our own habitual movements."

This is one of the best books I have read on the subject of posture and would recommend it to everyone interested in health, the human body, movement and body therapies.

Mary Bond has a Master's degree in dance from UCLA and trained with Dr. Ida P. Rolf as a structural Integration practitioner. She is a movement instructor at the Rolf Institute and teaches movement workshops in the USA.

The New Rules of Posture
How to Sit, Stand and Move in the Modern World
Mary Bond