About this episode

Esther Gokhale discusses the importance of posture as a missing pillar of wellness and how everyday activities can be transformed into beneficial exercises.

Are You the One? We have one spot left in both cohorts Designing Your New Life in Retirement small group program, beginning in September. Is now the time to start working on what you’ll be retiring to ? Learn more here | Sign up here Prepare for Takeoff: Is your money better prepared for retirement than you are to live it? Take this free 5-minute assessment to highlight may need you attention to build the retirement you’ve earned. __________________________ We spend a great deal of time thinking about how much we exercise. Esther Gokhale asks another question: How are we using our bodies during all the hours when we aren’t exercising? Esther Gokhale, creator of the Gokhale Method, became interested in posture after experiencing a severe L5-S1 disc herniation while pregnant with her first child. Surgery was followed by another herniation, and she began searching more broadly for ways to change how she moved in everyday life. In this conversation, Esther explains why she considers posture a missing pillar of wellness and why she believes ordinary activities (walking, sitting, standing, bending and even lying down) can become what she calls “life exercises.”…

People in this episode

Host: Retirement Wisdom

Guest: Esther Gokhale

Topics covered

• healthy aging
• posture
• wellness
• movement patterns
• retirement planning

Keywords

• healthy aging
• posture
• wellness
• life exercises
• movement patterns
• retirement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Gokhale Method

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