February 2009 review - posture

February 2009 has been posture month at Mokuren dojo. We've been paying particular attention to natural, upright posture in all of our classes and I have written several articles on the subject. As a matter of review:

• An introduction to good posture
• How to build good posture from the feet upward
• A funny video of how posture teaching used to be done - wrongly as far as I'm concerned
• And a discussion of a better way to improve your posture - ideokinesis
• A comparison of postures used in Chinese and Japanese martial arts
• A discussion of kokutsu and zenkutsu - two of the postures in karate-do.
• An exercise we do in judo to improve posture and learn to attack bad postures
• Finally, the best book around about movement and posture
• Or, you might want to browse all the articles I've ever written on posture

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