Body Posture

Good posture awareness is good health. Good posture is a way of doing things with more energy, less stress and fatigue. Without good posture, your overall health and body system efficiency such as digestion, elimination, breathing may be compromised.

“90% of energy output of the brain is used to relate the physical body to the gravity. Only 10% of the brain’s energy is used for thinking, metabolism and healing,” Dr Roger Sperry, 1980 Nobel Prize Recipient for Brain Research.

Postural balance and proprioception (body position awareness) occurs unconsciously through proper development of 70 sets of innate postural reflexes and movement patterns early in childhood. These postural reflexes are also part of our survival reflexes. The optimal functioning of our survival system is what allows us to feel safe in our environment. The maturity of these primitive reflexes have shown to be crucial for further development of our emotional brain which impacts on our behaviour, and the higher cortical functions that affects our learning abilities.