Standing straight is not a good posture either…
For years we’ve been told that good posture means standing tall, shoulders back and your spine straight as a rod. But that might not actually be true. … In fact, trying to hold yourself bolt upright all day could do more harm than good.
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Posture is dynamic, not static.
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Posture isn’t just about muscles, it’s also about mindset.
This is not a typical Moshe Feldenkrais lecture on good posture from mid-70s, it’s an August 2025 article on BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c890kejpg34o. Fifty years on, it seems the mainstream has caught up with simple principles of good standing, sitting and doing formulated by Feldenkrais:
Good posture is the ability to move in any direction without hesitation or preparation.
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Pain that undermines confidence in the body and self is the main cause of deviations from the ideal posture. Pain of this kind reduces the individual’s value in his own eyes.
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Posture relates to action, and not to the maintenance of any given position. Acture would perhaps be a better word for it.
If your daily routine involves sitting or standing, you are welcome to join the Wednesday evening classes to learn simple ways of better sitting, standing and doing. Individual sessions to address specific problems are also available upon request.
Acture FM 