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Living Pain-Free with the Gokhale Method

An Interview with Esther Gokhale by Ryan Kennedy, CCN, CFMP, CTN
In today’s modern world, the majority of people have lost connection with the proper biomechanics and physical functioning of their bodies. As a result, many individuals suffer from chronic pain and dysfunction. Yet rather than trying to correct the structural issues that are the root cause, many fall into the trap of masking their symptoms with pain medication and other means just to get through the day. The amazing thing is that this physical dysfunction is often reversible. With the right practices, you can improve your posture and alleviate your musculoskeletal pain.
Esther Gokhale (pronounced “GO-clay”) is the creator of the Gokhale Method, a unique, systematic approach that helps people find their way back to pain-free living. Esther is the author of the book 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back, which has sold over 200,000 copies and has been translated into 10 languages. In 2010, she hosted the nationally televised program Back Pain: The Primal Posture Solution (now available on DVD). She has taught at many corporations, including Google and Facebook, and she’s been a speaker at numerous conferences, including TEDx.
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Ryan Kennedy: Let’s start by diving into your backstory. What got you interested in the field of posture and proper biomechanics?
Esther Gokhale: I came to it the hard way, like many people come to their passions. I had a series of back pain episodes in college, and then the pain really hit me hard during my first pregnancy. At month nine, I had a herniated L5-S1 disc at the lumbosacral joint, as well as sciatic pain shooting down my left leg. I was told that the baby could be sitting on a nerve, and it might be okay after childbirth. It wasn’t. The pain just got worse and worse, and it got to the point where I couldn’t carry my baby around. I couldn’t even carry a cooking pot. At night, I would wake up every two hours with a back spasm and have to walk around the neighborhood to relieve it.
I tried all sorts of things, from the usual conservative approaches, such as physical therapy and strengthening exercises, to complementary medicine, including acupuncture and massage. Nothing worked. I ended up with back surgery – a laminectomy-discectomy. That helped for a while, but a year later, I had a reherniation of the same disc, and the doctors proposed another surgery. There I was in my mid-20s, having always thought of myself as super healthy – I was even a yoga model in Bombay – and suddenly I was facing lifelong disability. It wasn’t until I looked at the problem very differently that I found a solution.
RK: What led you to believe that posture was the solution to your back pain?
EG: All the interventions I had tried were more or less like band-aids. Even acupuncture, which helped relieve my symptoms for a while, didn’t get to the root of the problem. Only when I tried methodologies that really addressed the way I moved and the way my spine was structured did I find sustained relief. That made me realize that posture and proper movement were key parts of the solution.
Also, I had grown up in India, and I’d seen people who carried very large loads while selling their wares or doing construction work fare very well under impressive challenges. In addition, my mother would point out various people, such as the sweeper in our home and the fruit seller, and marvel at how amazing their carriage was and how functional they were. All that had registered in my awareness from childhood, so it made sense to me that there was some systematic error in the way I was using my body.
I started delving into the medical literature and into anthropological and historical data and finding proof that there is something different about how the people in nonindustrial cultures use their bodies and how their spines are shaped.
RK: I find that a lot of people underestimate the importance of posture and don’t identify it as a possible culprit for their dysfunction and pain. But how does posture affect one’s overall health?
EG: The most obvious repercussions of bad posture are on our nuts and bolts – our joints, muscles, and bones. The human body has components that need to be used in a certain way, and if you misuse them, there will be wear and tear. But when you change your musculoskeletal system, you’re also influencing the way your organs orient, the space you give them, and their blood and nerve supply. Posture affects your circulation, your breathing, the functioning of your organs, and your overall physiology.
What’s recently being seen in the literature is the connection that posture has with emotional well-being. Increasingly, there are studies showing a relationship between posture and depression, or posture and confidence and mindset. That’s not so surprising if we think about the way we know how an animal is feeling. For example, if a dog has its tail between its legs (the equivalent in the human animal is a tucked pelvis), we know that that dog is depressed, submissive, or fearful. If that dog has its head high and is standing very erect with its tail out behind it, we know that it is well and happy. So, it is not surprising that in the human animal as well, there is a correlation between mental health, mind state, wellness, and posture.
RK: Often, when you see someone slouched over, you can tell that they’re down or upset about something. When you see someone standing straight, with their shoulders back and great posture, they appear to be happier and have more energy and vitality.
EG: They actually do have more energy and vitality, and the research is beginning to show this. Although people in our culture are not trained to read these cues, we subconsciously pick them up. Sometimes, our students come back with reports on how a friend asked them if they had lost weight or changed their hairstyle. Although the friend didn’t consciously identify a postural change, they recognized that something was different.
There’s a book called Emotional Contagion in which the claim is made that when we have mind shifts, they register in our bodies. Then, because human beings are mimics, we copy each other’s body cues and posture. This loop is completed when we scan our own body for cues on how we’re feeling. If, for example, we find our mouth in the shape of a smile, we conclude that we must be happy, and that, in turn, elevates our mood. If we scan our body and find confident, happy posture, we conclude that we must be happy, and then we become happy.
It has been scientifically demonstrated that mindset can register as posture and get picked up by other people who copy that posture. Their minds then identify that posture and pick up the corresponding mood or mind state.
RK: You’ve visited many parts of the world in your research. How common is back pain in other countries that you have visited, relative to the United States?
EG: It’s a changing landscape. In modern Western cultures, for a while now, we have suffered greatly from musculoskeletal problems, back pain being the leading one. But that is now also becoming the case in other cultures as they get urbanized, Westernized, and industrialized.
What’s particularly sad is that in village-based, nonindustrial cultures, which historically have very low back pain rates – only about 5 percent in some cultures – industrialization leads to problems worse than what we have in the Western world. In nonindustrial cultures, if you lose your healthy traditional systems, you don’t have all the buffers that we have developed in modern Western societies. Here, if you have back pain, you can take ibuprofen. You can take a day off or even change your job. There are all sorts of hacks and semi-solutions that we can use to temporarily assuage the problem.
But in these cultures, when people are sent into the gold mines or are forced into concrete factories to carry inordinately large loads, they are really vulnerable. They have been sent away from their families, so they don’t have all the traditional checks and balances in place. They don’t have access to the modern solutions or semi-solutions either, so they become worse off than we are.
However, if you search for the traditional places that are not yet modernized, that still have their kinesthetic traditions handed down from the grandparents, who are still living in the same village as the parents and the children, you see these amazing, functional, beautiful carriages and systems. It’s really something to behold.
RK: You have developed a whole system of posture training that you’ve termed the Gokhale Method. Would you explain what this is exactly?
EG: It’s a methodology. It’s a whole bag of tools, a philosophy, and a journey that is crafted to help people get from where they are to where they want to go, architecturally speaking. If we want to sculpt our bodies and restore them to the healthy functionality we used to have when we were two years old and that our ancestors had, there are many ways to get there.
We’ve discovered that you can use your everyday life activities as your exercise – and your therapy.
The Gokhale Method provides a particularly efficient and effective pathway to make these necessary changes. This pathway has a lot of unique characteristics. One is that we use everyday activities as our primary toolkit. What’s much more common in other programs is to give people exercises that must be added to their daily routine. But we’ve discovered that you can use your everyday life activities as your exercise – and your therapy.
For example, when you bend over, that can be your hamstring stretch as well as your rhomboid strengthening exercise, your erector spinae strengthening exercise, and your external hip rotator stretch. This is the way traditional societies get their strengthening exercises and stretches taken care of.
We’re restoring the length and strength of the muscles in a way that is very natural, rather than contrived, time consuming, and expensive. There is some investment in learning, but then you are empowered to be your own healer and to have your everyday life become your tool. Daily life becomes your gym and your therapy.
RK: How does your method compare to other ways of treating back pain, such as chiropractic care or Rolfing?
EG: One of the big differences is that chiropractic care and Rolfing are done to you, and this is something you do to yourself. It’s an educational process where you are learning intellectually, kinesthetically, and visually. That’s also a difference from some of the other techniques, such as Alexander Technique, which I respect a great deal. But the main tool there is kinesthetic learning, which is a particularly slow way of learning for most people today. We have greatly developed our intellect, and we have a huge visual cortex, so why not use them? One of the important features of the Gokhale Method is that it’s multichannel. It looks right, it feels right, and it makes sense, so the changes happen more quickly and are more sustained.
In addition, we keep adding arrows to our quiver. Our program has started using technology a great deal. We connect our students via their mobile devices and computers because part of our goal is to populate the landscape with healthy concepts, terminology, and observations. Most people’s notions of posture are really flawed. They have been told to sit up straight, stand up straight, tuck their pelvis, keep an S-shaped spine – a lot of notions that are not only nonhelpful but actually counterproductive. We help people pull out these weeds, so to speak, and plant some useful verbiage, notions, and images.
We also email our students and newsletter subscribers. Every two weeks, they get some really useful education as well as invitations to our online teleseminars. We provide a lot of free offerings that help educate the general population, because our goal also includes helping whole communities develop better posture tools.
People constantly learn from each other. In the villages, they copy each other and learn healthy ways. Here, we copy each other slouching and thrusting out our chests, thinking that’s good posture. So, our program is trying to seed the entire planet with healthy posture teachings.
We’ve also recently invented a wearable, the Gokhale SpineTracker™, that we use in our classrooms. This is cutting-edge, and it took a lot of work and dedication on our part. It has five sensors that go on the back, and a mobile app that shows the shape of the spine. We help students record their baseline shapes when they are sitting, standing, and bending. Then, we mark targets for them, and they learn what body movements enable them to get to those targets. All those targets and shapes of the spine get recorded on the students’ profiles, and they can watch themselves change over time as well. All of this helps them make changes as quickly and in as sustained a way as possible.
RK: You mentioned a few common recommendations that are misleading people when it comes to good posture. What does good posture actually look like, and what do we need to do to achieve it?
EG: One of the key paradigm shifts that people need to make is to focus on the J-shaped spine, or J-spine, rather than an S-spine. In modern times, we’ve come to think of the S-spine as being the right template for the human structure, and I think that concept is flawed.
My book, 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back, contains a picture of a spine from a 1911 anatomy text. This picture shows a J-spine, as opposed to the S-spine that you see in chiropractic charts and modern anatomy books. The J-spine is similar in shape to a hockey stick. The behind is angled back, and the rest of the spine is stacked relatively straight.
The J-spine makes a lot more sense because it has all the upper lumbar discs, which are cylindrical in shape, fit into cylindrical spaces. In the S-spine, they’re all squished into wedge-shaped spaces. No wonder we have degenerated discs, arthritic spines, and back pain – we’re putting load on the edges of the vertebrae. It is important to change the paradigm so that we can move forward and have a theory and template for designing things such as furniture and clothing.
Most ergonomic chairs, for example, are built to S-spine specifications. People were always asking me, “How should I change my chair?” We used to fit them with towels and bungee cords. After a while, we designed the Stretchsit® Cushion to make bad chairs into good ones. Finally, we designed a really good chair, the Gokhale Pain Free™ Chair, that helps stretch and stack people’s spines.
RK: Your book describes eight steps people can take to eliminate back pain. Would you briefly explain what those steps are?
EG: We list these steps in the book in an order that is desirable. We begin with stretchsitting and stretchlying on the back. These methods entail gentle traction on the back while people are sitting and lying down. They are the simplest techniques to learn as well as the best beginning techniques.
It’s similar to preparing the clay for a remodel. Before we start moving the parts around, because discs may already be compressed and nerves may already be impinged upon, we want to prepare the clay. We like to soften the muscles and lengthen the whole spine as a first measure to prepare for the remodel.
Stretchsitting is one of the things I teach in our free online workshops because it is good for everybody. As long as it’s done gently, there’s no downside. I don’t have to worry that if someone has a herniated disc, this might not be good for them.
In brief, stretchsitting involves leaning forwards, away from a backrest, and then lengthening your spine in a couple of ways before hooking yourself back to our Stretchsit Cushion, which has some sticky nubs on it. A frictiony towel can also work, if you have a fabric chair that will hold it sufficiently. The problem with towels is that they often slip around. If you do use a towel, it should be placed under the shoulder blades. The point is not to reinforce a big lumbar curve but rather to reduce that curve and elongate your spine.
With stretchlying on the back, no products are necessary. You basically prop yourself up on your elbows, dig them in, and then gradually lengthen your back as you unroll onto the bed. There are some important details, such as where your pillow goes, why you should put a pillow under your knees, and how to lengthen your neck. However, the most important thing is that the back is in gentle traction for at least the first five minutes of the night. We tell people not to discipline themselves for too long but just to create familiarity with this very comfortable position, which often helps them fall asleep. Students frequently tell me: “Wow, I woke up in the same position I went to sleep in. I’m shocked because I never sleep on my back. I’ve always found that uncomfortable, but here I was feeling really good.”
So, that’s a nice first measure. It often leads to very good results, and that encourages people to invest a little more time and effort in the other techniques, such as stacksitting. In stacksitting, the pelvis is tipped forward, which allows the rest of the spine to stack without tension.
Here, the J-spine is very important. We like to use a wedge when people aren’t used to having their behinds out behind them and the rest of the spine stacked pretty straight. We teach that posture in stacksitting, which then opens up to all kinds of sitting, whether you’re on a horse, a bench, a stool, or a meditation cushion on the floor.
Then, we teach stretchlying on the side, which reinforces the concept of the J-spine. If you have good length and good shape to the spine, it doesn’t really matter whether you sleep on your back or your side. There are even ways to sleep healthily on your belly, but I discourage that for beginners because it takes more props and good habits to do that well. The main thing is the length and the shape of your spine as you sleep.
Next, we go on to using what I call the inner corset. This is very different from what most people are doing to improve what is commonly known as core strength. It is a natural way of moving that you see in people in nonindustrial cultures when they carry weight. They engage a particular set of deep abdominal and deep back muscles to basically cinch the body and make it taller and more slender. This protects the discs and nerves from wear and tear and impact.
This is extremely important if someone is running or carrying a heavy weight, if they’re in a bumpy bus, or if they’re going to distort their spine in something like yoga or dance that requires the spine to change its position. Then, that extra length is very important to avoid wear and tear.
Next, we teach tallstanding, which allows you to stand well and maintain a J-spine and a stacked spine. In tallstanding, most of the muscles in the body are in a resting position, with the weight-bearing bones vertically stacked over the heels.
After that, we teach hip-hinging, which is the natural way of bending with a very flat back. This has to be done precisely – kind of flat is not good enough. That can put load on discs and lead to a lot of problems. So, hip-hinging is not a beginning technique. We like people to have lengthened, strengthened, and reshaped their backs before they learn hip-hinging.
In addition, all along the way, we teach glidewalking, which is really the natural way of walking. It’s low impact, with the posterior chain (muscles along the back of the body and legs) used a lot. The glutes propel you forward with every step, and then you land like a hunter-gatherer, very softly, so there’s not a rattling of the joints and precipitation of arthritic changes and tight muscles.
The program progresses through all these natural ways of moving the body. In the process, the body becomes longer and stronger, and the person increasingly thrives.
RK: For people who may not be suffering from back pain, what other benefits would be gained by using your method?
EG: We’ve talked about improved physiology, mental health, and mindset, but there’s also improved performance if you’re an athlete. If you are glidewalking all day, and every step is a rep, you are going to be a better athlete. You are going to run faster, jump higher, and change direction with more power.
You’re also going to look a lot better. Good posture correlates with improved appearance. You are able to look your best self in addition to being your best self. You become a better negotiator and a better leader. If you have more confidence, people have more confidence in you, and that reinforces your sense of self and really makes the whole world a more functional place. I think if we all had this combination of being well-anchored in ourselves as well as available to the world, we would have a nicer planet to live on.
RK: What would you tell people who may be thinking that they’re a lost cause or that there’s no hope for them to reverse their chronic back pain? Is it ever too late for posture re-education?
EG: You’re never a lost cause. You can always improve on what you have. That’s not to say there’s a guarantee that you will get rid of 100 percent of your pain. However, in my experience, only a tiny percentage of the population – perhaps 2 or 3 percent – has some genetic condition or has had a sufficiently damaging accident that obliges them to have some ongoing pain. However, even these people will see benefit, because while improving your posture, you are improving your circulation and your breathing. And if you have a serious health condition, all the more reason to not have the additional burden of poor posture habits. You need to have posture work for you, instead of against you.
If you have a serious health condition, all the more reason to not have the additional burden of poor posture habits.
So, everybody benefits, most people to the point that they completely get rid of their aches and pains and are pleasantly surprised by other positive changes. I often hear comments such as: “Hey, I don’t have my constipation anymore”; “My periods don’t hurt”; “I feel more vibrant”; and “I have a lot more energy.”
RK: I want to elaborate a little more on sitting, because many people consider it a major cause of back pain and a big problem with our current work environments. Based on what you have said, it’s not that sitting is inherently bad, but that people have to sit in the right position. Would you go into that in more depth?
EG: Certainly. It’s not just that we need to be sitting well. We also need to sit in moderation. Just sitting like a lump for eight hours straight is not good for anyone. We have to change it up, and we also need to do each of the other positions well.
Right now, it’s a fashion to call sitting “the new smoking.” It used to be that standing was the bad guy. In the days when a lot of people worked on assembly lines and suffered from varicose veins and other ailments that come from standing too long in one position, that was the culprit. Now, sitting is the bad guy. However, I think the truth of the matter is that you need to sit well, stand well, and move around regularly.
I also think that lying down while you work is a missing piece of the conversation. From time to time, people should recline to give the musculoskeletal system a break. In Silicon Valley, some of the companies have napping pods, which I strongly support both as a good respite and as a posture reprieve to let all the discs rehydrate and the spine lengthen.
It also turns out that hunter-gatherers do a lot of sitting. There was a recent study on the Hadza tribal people in Tanzania, and the researchers put wearables on them to see how much of the time they were sitting. It turned out to be very similar to how long we sit in modern Western culture – about nine hours a day. However, they do just fine with their sitting. I think the key differences are that they sit well and that they engage in vigorous activity daily. For about two hours each day, they are up and around, being very active. I think it’s that combination that we want to head for. Sit well, but also exercise and move around – and whatever positions you’re using, do those skillfully. That takes an education.
RK: Many people I’ve worked with are standing and walking incorrectly, and they’re not resolving a lot of their issues. At the end of the day, they’re still very stationary.
EG: There’s a crowdsourcing website called healthoutcome.org that rates treatments for various orthopedic injuries and conditions. It has a huge amount of data on lower back pain, with over 165,000 ratings, and walking is rated as one of the least effective measures for relieving it. Only surgery has a worse rating.
If you look at how badly people rate walking, it might be a little shocking, unless you realize that most people these days have tight psoas muscles. Thus, when they walk, they’re yanking on their backs and arching them. So, it’s how they’re walking, not that they’re walking, that’s the big problem. The missing piece is education on how to walk well—and that’s what we teach. We teach people how to walk well, sit well, and stand well.
Interestingly, on that website, we’re the number one-rated intervention by an extremely wide margin.
RK: I was taught by many chiropractors, and even in school, that we want to bring the curvature back to the spine. Your work is basically the opposite of many things I’ve learned, and it’s really enlightening. By having less curvature, we have more space for the vertebrae, and there is less compression.
EG: Every kid on the planet, every nonindustrial indigenous person, and every ancestral statue has this elongated lumbar spine. It’s pretty flat. There’s not a lot of curve there. So, who do we want to copy? Shouldn’t it be people who actually function well?
It’s crazy how wrong we got it. Just about every lay guideline on posture is wrong:
“An ideal spine is S-shaped.” No, it’s J-shaped.
“Tuck your pelvis.” No, leave your “behind” behind. It’s called a “behind” for a reason.
“Keep your chin up and your chest out.” Wrong. Keeping your chin up will squish your cervical spine. Thrusting your chest out will squish your lumbar spine.
“Do crunches to strengthen your abs.” Crunches focus on the wrong abdominal muscle. The rectus abdominus is actually the least important of them. The three deeper layers are more important. So, you want to use the inner corset in daily activities or in exercises in order to strengthen the correct abdominal muscles without compromising the discs and nerves. I think crunches are very well named. They crunch the nerves and the discs, and they should be thrown out. However, they are still the most popular abs exercise among the general population.
Every kid on the planet, every nonindustrial indigenous person, and every ancestral statue has this elongated lumbar spine.
RK: What types of abdominal exercises do you like to strengthen the inner corset? If people have been doing crunches, what should they do instead?
EG: The best way to strengthen the inner corset is on the job. Anytime you’re carrying something, you would use this particular set of muscles. In Chapter 5 of my book, you can learn about the inner corset and how to use it every time your back would otherwise be compromised. That chapter is available as a free offering on our website, gokhalemethod.com.
You can also work on your inner corset throughout the day for a minute or so as a contrived exercise. You don’t have to stop what you’re doing – you can do it while cutting your vegetables, for example, or you can incorporate it into things like swimming, dancing, and running.
In addition, there are exercises you can do in the gym, including anything asymmetric. For example, if you’re pulling a band across your body, you’re using half of your obliques. Then, you do the other side, and you’ve strengthened some key components of the inner corset.
RK: A lot of people like to have set exercise routines in addition to their day-to-day activities. Would an exercise like a plank help to strengthen the inner corset?
EG: Absolutely. Anytime you’re preserving the shape of your torso against some external force – and in the plank, it’s gravity – that’s a good exercise. Some people like going to the gym, taking exercise classes, and so on. If you like that, by all means, incorporate the inner corset into those activities. If you prefer to hike, dance, or do another kind of vigorous activity, that’s fine, too. There are a lot of opportunities to use the inner corset there.
RK: People lately are talking a lot about “text neck,” a painful condition caused by frequently tilting the chin towards the chest while looking at one’s phone. Since this repetitive behavior flattens the curvature of the cervical vertebrae, why is it not beneficial?
EG: I think when people are getting text neck, the place that distorts the most is the upper thoracic spine. It starts curving forward and becoming rigid. Then, their head is facing the ground, and they have to extend their neck to look ahead of them. I find that causes things to go wrong. What we want is to straighten and flatten the entire spine above the sacrum. In the neck, we need to focus on stability and strength in the muscles, and in the thoracic spine, we need to preserve mobility. If it gets too rigid in there, hunching or a hump can develop.
Many people have come to me from chiropractors who told them that they have military neck and that they need to get the curvature back in there. Sometimes, these chiropractors use a pretty violent approach, such as hanging the head off the bed and using devices and extreme manipulations.
In my book, there are many photographs of people with perfectly erect, straight necks and not much curvature to be seen. These are people who carry large loads on their heads all day and have no arthritic changes in their spines. They are functional and healthy, with no pain and no changes in their bones and discs – and medical literature documents this.
It’s quite shocking for a lot of people that I’m teaching them the opposite of what they’ve been told before. I always tell our students, as long as you’re training with me, empty your cup and immerse yourself in what I’m teaching. Sometimes, they may only be in training for one day. We teach a one-day Pop-up Course with a half-hour online follow-up. There’s a lot to teach in that day or in the six-lesson course offered by our teachers all over the world. Immerse yourself in it, and then you can decide what feels right, looks right, and makes sense for you.
RK: What is the most difficult thing for people to change as they learn your method and start to incorporate the eight steps?
EG: The way we have broken it down, it’s remarkably doable. Some of the steps are not easy, but they’re all doable. The people who tend to have the most difficulty are those who have been heavily trained in some other methodology. For example, if they have been trained in walking, leading with their pelvis like models, there’s a lot of unlearning to do. However, they still get it, because the body remembers how it used to be when they were two years old. Even if it feels strange in the beginning, it feels strangely familiar.
We’re teaching natural things that are written into their DNA, that are written into their personal memory and their ancestral memory. Sometimes, to make the change a little smoother, I ask people to dig up old photographs of their great-grandfathers – if such pictures exist – or of their grandfathers and use them as a reminder and an inspiration.
RK: This valuable information is very important for people to hear. Where can they go to connect with you and learn more about your work?
EG: The best place is our website, gokhalemethod.com, which is quite a rich ecosystem. It has all kinds of free offerings, including the PDF of the chapter on the inner corset and invitations to free online workshops. It also lists all the offerings of our teachers. We have over 50 teachers, all of whom are incredibly dedicated, capable people trained personally by me. They teach our courses and provide initial consultations all over the world. You can type in your zip code, and the website will show which of our teachers are close to you. If there aren’t any, you can request that a teacher come to your area or you can travel to one of our intensive courses. I’m going on tour with our one-day Pop-up Course all over the country, so you are sure to be able to find something that suits you.
You can also see my book, 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back. It’s another great way to start. In addition, you can sign up for our newsletter, which contains a lot of valuable information. We’re here on a mission to educate the planet on how to get back to what we used to have.
About Esther Gokhale
Esther Gokhale, author of the award-winning book 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back, was educated at Harvard, Princeton (BA in biochemistry), and San Francisco College of Acupuncture and Medicine, as well as by people in nonindustrial cultures worldwide. She founded her Palo Alto, California-based center, the Gokhale Method Institute, over 20 years ago and has helped thousands of people get pain-free through her application of the Gokhale Method. For more information, see gokhalemethod.com.
About Ryan Kennedy
Ryan Kennedy, CCN, CFMP, CTN, is a Functional Medicine Practitioner and Board-Certified Clinical Nutritionist who takes a holistic approach to helping his patients improve their health. He has helped thousands of people break free from fad diets and feelings of discouragement with the conventional approach. To learn more about his work, find him on instagram@ryanckennedy or on his website thrivingwellness.co.
Published in the Price-Pottenger Journal of Health & Healing
Fall 2019 | Volume 43, Number 2
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