![]() If you use them properly, they force you to slump and bend your spine. "You have to be up against the backrest and headrest or you could get whiplash in an accident."īut there's a big problem with the backrests in many cars and airplanes: They are shaped like C's. "You definitely don't want to be sitting away from the backrest for safety reasons," says Esther Gokhale, who also teaches posture and traditional movement in Palo Alto. ![]() But there's one situation in which sitting on the edge or perching on a pillow isn't a good idea: in the car. The first two tricks work great for most chairs. "When it's too soft, my hip bones fall back and then I'm in that nasty C shape," she says. First, they give you something firm to hold up your sitz bones (sitting bones). Whether it's a wedge, a shoe or your husband's wool sweater, Couch says, these props help in two ways. "You want it as dense as you can get for it to really help." "It's a wedge-shaped pillow, and it's pretty dense foam," Couch says. "I've sat on my wallet, a shoe, a folded sweater, but the best is a wedge," she says, as she pulls out what looks like an incline plane. She says you can really use anything to build a perch - a wool blanket, a jacket, a rolled up yoga mat. So the pillow is tilting her pelvis forward a bit, and she's kind of elevated above the chair. Then she sits down on the front of the pillow. To fix it, she takes a firm pillow and places it a few inches from the chair's front edge. "So I'm perched right now," Couch says as she sits down on her kitchen chair, which is clearly too soft. ![]()
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