Here’s the second part of Alison’s question (read the first part here):
My family is filled with a lot of people with what I always thought of as “bad posture”. Is this simply learned from patterning off each other for generations, from lack of the right kind of exercise, or is it due to inherent build, proportions, etc?
First of all, I want to go back for a moment to the question, can you change the structure of your spine? Yes, absolutely. And up to a point, given all kinds of factors, including age and health and so on. But there is plenty of evidence and many recent studies in Western science that show that bones can and do regenerate and reform throughout our entire life. But bone, unlike muscle, is brittle, and if you try to change bony structure by force, you’re likely to compromise its integrity. Also, every vertebra, every bone in the body, is a part of the whole, so changes need to be in an harmonious relationship with the whole in order to be beneficial.
OK, so how do you change it? Continue reading

























