Posture Release Imagery is a challenging but ultimately rewarding way of exploring the healthy use of our bodies.
For those who learn to work with this imagery, the understanding and practice unleashes lightness, stability, and gracefulness within you.
Posture Release Imagery is a mental form of posture exercise, but it becomes quite physical in effect. It promotes more naturally graceful movement. It was inspired by the principles of the Alexander Technique, evolutionary theory, and a theory of personality types.
These images call upon the sensory wisdom of our “right brains,” that part of our thinking that is visual and holistic as opposed to verbal and linear.
The archetypal tetrapod
The exercises are largely based on illustrations of a simplified version of a four-legged creature, what I call an “archetypal tetrapod.” This creature represents a “map” of our own body surface—and our evolutionary history—simplified.
For the past two years, we’ve worked closely with John Appleton to shape “Calm Up & Tense Down”—the culmination of his life’s discoveries about the human body and self-image. This isn’t just a book; it’s a groundbreaking guide to understanding and transforming posture, pain, and the way we inhabit our bodies.
While the full book is still in its final editing stages, we’re excited to share the first two chapters with you now—polished, ready, and waiting to inspire.
Tell us where to send the first two chapters of “Calm Up and Tense Down”
“It is with a most sincere intention that I write to you today to say that your insights and somatic retraining model have changed my life.
In 2016, I was injured while serving as a medical sergeant in the US Army Special Forces in a military freefall accident.
It has been nearly a year since you shared these resources with me. Today I write to you totally pain free.
This month I have returned to a normal and happy life. This fact is quite emotional for me to acknowledge.
I have since returned to not just physical activity but also moderate physical training.”
-B