Esther Gokhale-- 8 Steps to a Pain Free Back April 9, 2008

Wednesday, April 9 at 7:00 PM
8 Steps to a Pain Free Back
Meet Palo Alto acupuncturist and Yoga instructor, Esther Gokhale, author of 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back, a fresh approach to overcoming back pain which advocates adopting the natural, healthy posture of athletes, young children, and people from traditional societies. Arguing that most of what we’ve been taught about posture is misguided—even unhealthy—Esther Gokhale debunks many of the commonly cited reasons for the degeneration of spinal discs and the stress on muscles that leads to back pain.

Bio:
Esther Gokhale ( pronounced Go-clay) has been involved in integrative therapies all her life. As a young girl growing up in India, she helped her mother, a registered nurse, treat abandoned babies waiting to be adopted. This early interest led her to study biochemistry at Harvard and Princeton and, later, acupuncture at the San Francisco School of Oriental Medicine. After crippling back pain during her first pregnancy and unsuccessful back surgery, she began her lifelong crusade to find a solution to back pain. Her studies at the Aplomb Institute in Paris and years of research in Burkina Faso, India, Portugal, and elsewhere led to her development of the Gokhale Method, which she has been teaching at her Palo Alto Wellness Center for the past fifteen years.

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