Author Esther Gokhale tells Direction Journal: “In the Western world, we’ve forgotten how to use our bodies.”
“I blame a couple of things. One is the fashion industry. Around WWI, it became fashionable to tuck the pelvis. The flapper look. That was a major wrong turn. People have come to believe this is normal and desirable.”
“Furniture design came to support a tucked pelvis.”
“The other thing in modern Western culture is that we no longer have families rooted in a place and we don’t have grandparents informing how parents carry their children. We don’t have grandparents and aunts and uncles modeling how to bend, how to walk.”
“People are more intellectually cued into these matters than kinesthestically. It’s an underdeveloped sense.”
Esther argues that people can change their posture and movement patterns from just reading a book such as her’s.
