This course is for anyone who wants to resolve stiffness, chronic pain, and/or improve their posture. Whether you experience posture-related stiffness and pain, or you frequently injure yourself while exercising or engaging in physical activities, you'll find relief in learning to apply principles of natural alignment to these activities. Or perhaps you’re concerned about your posture as you age, or maybe you're a doctor or other health and wellness professional, who wants to help your patients resolve posture-related pain or stiffness, this course will be of benefit to you!

Yes, to a certain extent this is true. At one time, not long ago, I would have said this was always true. I taught in-person classes, workshops, and private lessons for twenty-six years, so I know how helpful it can be to have an in-person experience with a teacher guiding you through the process.

Originally, I created this course as a way to make this information available to the many people who never have an opportunity to learn this any other way. However, my thinking about this has changed a lot since having witnessed how successful this self-directed course has turned out to be for so many people. 

Among the benefits of this online course is the fact that the lessons can be revisited again and again, as long as needed. This is key when changing longstanding habits of postural patterns, something that's not available in an in-person class that comes to an end after a set amount of time. Continuing with in-person over a period of time can be prohibitively expensive.

A course such as this can also delve more deeply into the information, and can be amended and added to over time. Access to any updates is included in the purchase of the course itself. 

Happily, many people experience relief from certain aspects of discomfort and pain almost immediately when learning the basics of how to support the spine. 

Improving your overall posture, however, is a larger work in progress. It involves putting into practice details related to sitting, standing, walking, bending, lifting, carrying, reaching, etc. While this may sound like a lot, it gets continuously easier and more satisfying, because one action builds upon another, and the more you learn, the faster you’ll be able to fill in the blanks to refine what you already know. It’s a bit like learning to speak a language—the language of your natural body.

This said, you’ll need to apply mindfulness—a willingness to pay attention to yourself as often as you can remember. Herein lies a lovely silver lining! We all know the value of mindfulness in our lives, that capacity for awareness of the present moment that cultivates emotional regulation, stress management, improved relationships, and an overall calm state of mind.

Learning how to align your bones can’t do all this, of course, but focusing your attention on your bones is a powerful anchor to mindfulness—and vice versa—as each practice enhances qualities of the other.

This is yet another reason there’s so much to love about becoming naturally aligned!

Starting on the day you sign up, you'll receive instant access to Modules 1 and 2. You'll be given a password and guided through how to log into the platform where the course lives.

Thereafter, you'll be notified each week that a new module is available. You'll also receive occasional messages whenever future updates are added to the course. 

Once completed, your access to the course will be permanent, making it possible for you to review any part of it at any time—always—for the life of the course.

The real question appears to be: why are so many doctors, researchers, and people who struggle with chronic pain of unknown cause, still in the dark about these alignment details?

Here, I believe, are some of the reasons why:

— There's an unfortunate assumption that everything there is to know about biomechanical details of how these human bodies work, has already been studied and understood. While so much is, indeed, understood, the integrated whole of the musculoskeletal system in relationship to the vertical axis of gravity, has been overlooked.

— "Natural alignment” is often considered to be too simplistic to address the scope and complexity of the runaway epidemic of pain in our society. The good news is, study those people in the world who do not struggle with stiffness and pain, and therein will be the answer.

— We live in an exercise/muscle-centric society that upholds certain misguided ideas about “fitness.”

— It’s common to believe that those of us living in in technologically advanced places have little to learn from people who live in less advanced, rural areas.

— Together, these reasons create a firewall that prevents this message from getting through to those in positions to carry out meaningful, evidence-based research about all of this.

However, any questions you might have about the scientific rationale for this are likely to evaporate once you put these concepts into practice for yourself!

One way to consider the value of this course is to consider the difference between having someone else do something to you, rather than you doing something for yourself. Often when we experience pain and discomfort, we get a massage, visit a chiropractor, see an acupuncturist, among others. These visits are often initially helpful, but the results seldom last. They must be repeated, sometimes many times, and this is where it becomes expensive.

This online course provides tools for how to inhabit the body with greater awareness of the alignment principles that are likely to free us from these cycles of pain.

Is this a quick fix? No, it is not, because there simply is no such thing. But when applied and put into practice with growing consistency, we often release ourselves from chronic tension and pain, and save on the expense of getting help from others.

You can change your password via your settings on the course site, or request an email be sent to you if you're having trouble logging in. OR, simply shoot us an email at [email protected], and let us know what you need. We're here to help!

While some people swear by their standing desks—good for them!—many people find that standing causes its own set of pain problems.

The real issue is not sitting vs. standing, but HOW you sit and HOW  you stand that determines whether either one is problematic or not. Misunderstanding the details of sitting or standing is the cause of much of this confusion.

There's also a lot of confusion, even among health professionals, about the risks of sitting for long periods of time vs. standing. 

Once you learn the details for how to sit in a way that is wholly natural, pain-free, and promotes healthy, solidly strong sitting where your bones (and not your muscles) do the job they are meant to do—sitting will stop being a problem for you.

No problem. You'll have a chance to dive into the course and check it out. If you feel it's not for you for any reason, just let us know within 14 days, and we'll gladly refund your purchase price in full.