Imogen Ragone tells Robert Rickover: “Leaders in the animal kingdom and among humans had the same characteristics — high levels of testosterone and low levels of cortisol… Animals and humans alike were more expanded. They made themselves bigger. From there she developed this idea of power poses.”
“[With Alexander Technique,] you can improve every situation you are in. If you need to sit with your arms crossed, you can do it in a way that is more expansive.”
“The high power poses are quite masculine and the low power poses are more common for females.”
Robert: “By having your legs apart and your hands on your hips, it raises your internal center of gravity and the shrinking version lowers your internal center of gravity. I would imagine that anything you do to raise your center of gravity would [empower you], even having your hands on your head or bending your knees or having your feet apart. Almost anything you do apart from slumping will raise your center of gravity.”
Imogen: “Power poses not only changed how people perceived you but it also changed how the people doing the poses felt about themselves.”
