As we grow into life and go through challenges of all kinds in our lives, our posture is changed. Individual posture is often a reflection of habits, activities and even emotional states or attitudes.
On a physical level, we might injure a knee and find it hard to break the habit of limping that we used to protect our weakened knee during recovery. Years of stress and tension might lead to shortened and hardened neck muscles which could contribute to regular headaches.
Of course our activities also can influence our posture. For example, when I teach movement classes, it is often the participants who have spent many years dancing who still exhibit an upright “straight” spinal posture. If you are hunched over a mobile phone for endless hours you might develop what some people call “text neck”, a relatively new phenomenon which can lead to severe complications such as spinal misalignment, degeneration of discs and nerve compression.
Our mood and emotional states may be also reflected in our posture. Depression can lead to slumped shoulders, shuffling feet, a tilted pelvic. Over time our bodily posture might continue to display such gestures even though our mental state is on the recovery. Jaimen McMillan in “The Fourfold Path to Healing” suggests that a change in space which leads to a change of posture can positively affect one’s mental state. Spacial Dynamics® teaches you how to move your space, improves the way you live in your body and your experience of life!