Learning to move with more lightness, stability, and grace
Posture Release Imagery uses guided imagination to improve posture, movement, and comfort, often reducing (or eliminating) pain along the way.
Experiment with an image
Each card is a short, guided imaginative journey. You don't need to understand anything, just bring your attention and your body.
Why PRI is different
PRI teaches that posture and movement can be influenced through imagination, attention, and perception. We don't use force, correction, or exercise. The body listens to the imagination, and when given the right images, reorganizes itself.
Traditional approaches
Correction
Identify what's wrong and fix it
Effort
Strengthen, stretch, or hold yourself in place
Alignment
Match an external ideal of how you should look
Instructions
Follow rules about how to stand or sit
Posture Release Imagery
Imagery
Let a mental image reorganize your body from within
Awareness
Notice what's already happening, without judgment
Discovery
Find your own natural relationship with gravity
Exploration
Follow curiosity rather than rules
Hi, I'm John Appleton
My discoveries, found in Posture Release Imagery, involve a new understanding of the source of much of peoples’ enduring body pain. They also help us to understand, more specifically, the process we went through in becoming an upright species, what I call a “secondarily upright” species.
Explore the visual world of PRI
Hundreds of original illustrations are central to the PRI teaching process. Browse them as a form of discovery.
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