Print 🖨 PDF 📄 eBook 📱Recently on my walk I was very aware of how people were walking and running and I began to notice their posture and style. I am used to looking at people’s posture as I have been teaching yoga and general exercise for many years, but I had not until that day realised how unsupportive many people’s running/walking posture and style actually is. I felt into how I was walking that morning – effortlessly, lightly and joyfully. I felt like the seagulls I had observed earlier, sitting on the sea, and then gliding along the sea effortlessly – almost like stillness in motion. Do we ever observe our posture or style whilst running, walking or exercising generally? We each have a unique walking, running, and exercising posture and style, some of which support us and some that can be harmful to our bodies. For example: Leaning over to the left or right, so that one side of the body (head, neck, shoulder and hip) is lower than the other side, and therefore contracted Leaning forwards or backwards, which strains the lower back (at least) Lifting the shoulders up and/or rolling the shoulders in, which puts pressure ...