There is a saying that the best posture is your next posture. What does it mean? It means keep moving! Yes, movement is what our body wants. Our circulation, joints, muscles, and fascia need movement. Our lifestyle has changed so much compared to what it used to be. We are sitting most of the time in our modern life: we sit at work, we sit on the couch and we sit in a car or bus. Now with remote work, we don’t even commute to work like before so our movement has become limited. So if there is one thing I would suggest to do is to get up and move every 20-30 minutes for 2 to 3 minutes. All you need to do is to either get up, stand up, and do some safe movements or just walk around.
Now when it comes to your posture in sitting, I’m going to make it simple:
1- Sit on your sit bones.
2- Sit tall and keep the arch of your spine in the neutral position (don’t flare/poke your chest/lower rib cage nor slouch them, just keep the arch neutral). There is an arch in the spine and the spine is not one straight line. We just don’t want to exaggerate the arch one way or the other.
3-If you keep your head way too forward (forwarded head posture or poking your chin) you want to modify that.
Now we all know if we lose this posture after a few minutes, it’s ok because we are supposed to get up every 20-30 minutes so we are not going to sit for too long.
You may ask where the sits bones are. You can feel the sits bones under the gluteal fold (under the bottom). We usually sit on the tailbone (last piece of bone in spine). In order to sit on the sits bones you can simply tilt your pelvis back or take your glute muscles out with your hands as you sit (glute muscles are the flesh part of the bottom).
Remember motion is lotion and your best posture is your next posture so keep moving as our body loves movement.
Sara Taheri
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