A short instructional YouTube video by Brian Johnson emphasizing the importance of upright, relaxed posture for optimal body expression. The speaker gives concrete cues (chest up, chin down, shoulders back; imagine a thread pulling the spine upward) and stresses expansion without tension as a way to ‘express our best.’
Chest up, chin down, shoulders back. Imagine a thread running from the base of your feet or the base of your spine up to the top of your head. Give that thread like a gentle tug. Expand your body, but simultaneously be relaxed. So it's not about holding tension, it's expansion and relaxion. That's you at your best. Most of us are walking around on our phones, hunched over at our computer. Anytime I check with my posture, it almost is never in this expansive, tall posture. When we talk about flipping a switch, when we talk about expressing our best, it starts with the body. It starts with that. Again, pull the thread. Chest up, chin down, shoulders back. Simultaneously expansive and yet relaxed.
