Posture-lating with Posture Ellie

Join Ellie for a conversation on how far the benefits of good posture stretch. Firstly, good posture is not about standing stiffly and tall, it's about moving each joint in your body well. This reduces aches and pains. On top of that, your posture is the home that all of you lives in and so it impacts all the other systems in your body too. Is your posture helping support your other systems? Or impacting their function?

If you ever have any thoughts or questions about anything you'd like covered on 'Posture-lating' then please do get in touch with Ellie!

Other Info

- Free 7 Day Lazy Glutes Challenge - https://postureellie.myflodesk.com/lazygluteschallenge

- Order my book ‘Posture Power’ - https://watkinspublishinglinks.com/posture-power

- Start your one month free trial of The Posture Squad - https://posture-ellie.com/the-posture-squad

- Website - posture-ellie.com

- Substack - https://substack.com/@plantedposture

- YouTube & Socials - @postureellie

Credits for Intro theme: Life is Good 2 by Beat Mekanik, Source: Free Music Archive, License Type: CC BY

TRIGGER WARNING - In this episode, I talk upon the impact that trauma can subconsciously have on our body (putting us into a state of contraction to protect us). I briefly mention sexual abuse and accidents, but do not go into any detail.

Join Ellie for a slightly heavier episode this time, where she discusses her thoughts on how trauma gets stuck in your body, how having a stuck body can cause a trauma response and the dramatic process of working trauma out of the body through posture exercises and releases. It's intense but very powerful stuff.

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

Dr Gabor Mate - When the Body Says No (re. how stress manifests as disease)

Dr Jagdeep Johal - Ease (easy read re. how trauma gets stuck in the body)

Bessel Van Der Kolk - The Body Keeps the Score (not mentioned but also re. how trauma gets stuck in the body - this is much more heavy than Ease though)

If you ever have any thoughts or questions about anything you'd like covered on 'Posture-lating' then please do get in touch with Ellie!

Other Info

- Free 7 Day Lazy Glutes Challenge - https://postureellie.myflodesk.com/lazygluteschallenge

- Order my book ‘Posture Power’ - https://watkinspublishinglinks.com/posture-power

- Start your one month free trial of The Posture Squad - https://posture-ellie.com/the-posture-squad

- Website - posture-ellie.com

- Substack - https://substack.com/@plantedposture

- YouTube & Socials - @postureellie

Credits for Intro theme: Life is Good 2 by Beat Mekanik, Source: Free Music Archive, License Type: CC BY

In this episode, we look at why driving a car is so bad for our posture and what we can do to help our posture whilst driving but, most importantly, what we can do to prepare our body before we go driving. The latter is always the best methodology when it comes to using posture to make your body more resilient to the activities you want to do.

If you ever have any thoughts or questions about anything you'd like covered on 'Posture-lating' then please do get in touch with Ellie!

Other Info

- Free 7 Day Lazy Glutes Challenge - https://postureellie.myflodesk.com/lazygluteschallenge

- Order my book ‘Posture Power’ - https://watkinspublishinglinks.com/posture-power

- Start your one month free trial of The Posture Squad - https://posture-ellie.com/the-posture-squad

- Website - posture-ellie.com

- Substack - https://substack.com/@plantedposture

- YouTube & Socials - @postureellie

Credits for Intro theme: Life is Good 2 by Beat Mekanik, Source: Free Music Archive, License Type: CC BY

In this episode, I tackle a listen question regarding the difference between physiotherapy and posture exercises. Whilst the exercises themselves are often very similar (not always though), the main difference stems in the WHY behind their prescription. We posture therapists work off the premise that a painful part of the body is exhausted (not weak) and so that it's best to leave it alone, rather than trying to strengthen or stretch it out. So, for example, a physio might assign shoulder exercises to a painful shoulder, whereas a posture therapist will look everywhere else BUT the shoulder.

If you ever have any thoughts or questions about anything you'd like covered on 'Posture-lating' then please do get in touch with Ellie!

Other Info

- Free 7 Day Lazy Glutes Challenge - https://postureellie.myflodesk.com/lazygluteschallenge

- Order my book ‘Posture Power’ - https://watkinspublishinglinks.com/posture-power

- Start your one month free trial of The Posture Squad - https://posture-ellie.com/the-posture-squad

- Website - posture-ellie.com

- Substack - https://substack.com/@plantedposture

- YouTube & Socials - @postureellie

Credits for Intro theme: Life is Good 2 by Beat Mekanik, Source: Free Music Archive, License Type: CC BY

In this episode, Ellie tackles the question "How do you know when you've restored full range of motion, once the pain has gone?" Ellie discusses what we mean by ROM, how chasing ROM (if a joint is painful) might be the wrong course of action and what sort of signs you're looking for from your body to indicate you still have ROM left to improve on.

If you ever have any thoughts or questions about anything you'd like covered on 'Posture-lating' then please do get in touch with Ellie!

Other Info

- Free 7 Day Lazy Glutes Challenge - https://postureellie.myflodesk.com/lazygluteschallenge

- Order my book ‘Posture Power’ - https://watkinspublishinglinks.com/posture-power

- Start your one month free trial of The Posture Squad - https://posture-ellie.com/the-posture-squad

- Website - posture-ellie.com

- Substack - https://substack.com/@plantedposture

- YouTube & Socials - @postureellie

Credits for Intro theme: Life is Good 2 by Beat Mekanik, Source: Free Music Archive, License Type: CC BY

Join Ellie for the first proper episode of Season 2. She answers question from a Posture Squad member, "How to keep progressing with posture when you have a desk job?" and hopefully does it the topic justice.

If you ever have any thoughts or questions about anything you'd like covered on 'Posture-lating' then please do get in touch with Ellie!

Other Info

- Free 7 Day Lazy Glutes Challenge - https://postureellie.myflodesk.com/lazygluteschallenge

- Order my book ‘Posture Power’ - https://watkinspublishinglinks.com/posture-power

- Start your one month free trial of The Posture Squad - https://posture-ellie.com/the-posture-squad

- Website - posture-ellie.com

- Substack - https://substack.com/@plantedposture

- YouTube & Socials - @postureellie

Credits for Intro theme: Life is Good 2 by Beat Mekanik, Source: Free Music Archive, License Type: CC BY

Welcome to Season 2 of 'Posture-lating'! The podcast will be launching properly next week but I wanted to let you know of a brand new coaching programme (for Elevate Tier Posture Squad Members) which starts on Monday Sept 7th. Start your one month free trial (as an Elevate Tier member) to join us!

If you ever have any thoughts or questions about anything you'd like covered on 'Posture-lating' then please do get in touch with Ellie!

Other Info

- Free 7 Day Lazy Glutes Challenge - https://postureellie.myflodesk.com/lazygluteschallenge

- Order my book ‘Posture Power’ - https://watkinspublishinglinks.com/posture-power

- Start your one month free trial of The Posture Squad - https://posture-ellie.com/the-posture-squad

- Website - posture-ellie.com

- Substack - https://substack.com/@plantedposture

- YouTube & Socials - @postureellie

Credits for Intro theme: Life is Good 2 by Beat Mekanik, Source: Free Music Archive, License Type: CC BY

Join Ellie for this episode in which she announces a break from the podcast (and some other things) and what she'll be working on instead. See you in a few months!

Other Info

- Order my book ‘Posture Power’ - https://watkinspublishinglinks.com/posture-power

- Start your one month free trial of The Posture Squad - https://posture-ellie.com/the-posture-squad

Website - posture-ellie.com

YouTube & Socials - @postureellie

Credits for Intro theme: Life is Good 2 by Beat Mekanik, Source: Free Music Archive, License Type: CC BY

Join Ellie and Posture Squad member Mirka (who came camping from Shropshire) for her FINAL 'Member Morning' from her current studio. Mirka has an interesting story - she was brought up in Slovakia, moved to Shropshire, walked the Camino de Santiago, loves to garden, trained as a breathwork instructor, is training to be a counsellor and, of course, loves posture! Listen to Mirka tell her story.

Other Info

- Order my book ‘Posture Power’ - https://watkinspublishinglinks.com/posture-power

- Start your one month free trial of The Posture Squad - https://posture-ellie.com/the-posture-squad

Website - posture-ellie.com

YouTube & Socials - @postureellie

Credits for Intro theme: Life is Good 2 by Beat Mekanik, Source: Free Music Archive, License Type: CC BY

Join Ellie for a reminder of what posture therapy is all about ... balance, function and power (in that specific order). Too many go from sedentary and desk-bound straight to 'power' (running, gym etc), without doing the foundational work to fix the broken movement patterns first. With broken movement patterns, 'power' is going to hurt, always. Your options are then to either a) pretend it doesn't hurt (and eventually be forced to stop) or b) give up (and be faced with the decay that occurs from not keeping your body moving enough). OR ... you accept option 3 - posture therapy. Posture Therapy gets you focusing in on your balance first, then your function and THEN the power will come. You can't boycott balance and function and expect good results!

Other Info

- Order my book ‘Posture Power’ - https://watkinspublishinglinks.com/posture-power

- Start your one month free trial of The Posture Squad - https://posture-ellie.com/the-posture-squad

Website - posture-ellie.com

YouTube & Socials - @postureellie

Credits for Intro theme: Life is Good 2 by Beat Mekanik, Source: Free Music Archive, License Type: CC BY