How To Care For Your Body While Working A Desk Job

​Desk work doesn't have to hurt. With the right mitigation strategies, it doesn't even have to be "mildly bad."

Hi, I'm your local machine-learning-engineer-turned-massage-therapist, and in my practice I see a lot of clients with stiffness, soreness, and pain from desk work. I found I kept re-explaining the same self-care principles to each of them, so I made a class!

​My method works through interoception: it's how to track, interpret, and resolve your body's early sensory warning signals before they hurt.

​This isn't a dry, prescriptive list of "correct postures." This is experiential, engaging, and rewarding. It's simple movement practices you'll want to do because you'll notice them working - and 'feeling increasingly better' kicks off an upward feedback loop. No discipline or activation energy required.

​We'll cover:

• ​What "good posture" feels like from the inside.

• ​Body care is an emerging field, with lots of confident contradictory opinions. If it feels confusing, that's why!

• ​Sensing into your body for signals of stuckness and unwinding - "how to know when it's working"

• ​Common reasons that "good posture" might not feel good for you, and what to do instead.

​Excerpt:
Lots of people think that they already know what they "should" be doing to stay healthy and out of pain - and it's "have more discipline, to hold my body in 'perfect' posture."

But I find top-down approaches like that don't stick - better to go bottom up, starting from discovering the felt sensations of what good posture feels like.

Good news is, it feels better than bad posture, so once this clicks, it requires no discipline at all to maintain!

Also, perhaps your body has restrictions in it that make straight-spine 'good posture' not so accessible for you, and you'd be better served by other positions or movements. I'll walk you through which body sensations (pulling, pinching, etc) would indicate that's your situation, and what to do about it.

​More about Elena, or book a session: https://www.elenalakebodywork.com/