Red Clover Clinic

07/01/2025

July/August Red Clover Clinic Newsletter

06/05/2025

In May I spent two weeks in Mumbai, on the west coast of India. To a newcomer it can be overwhelming, being a megacity of over 12 million people; I hold a deeply personal connection and affection for this place where I grew up. I was in Mumbai on holiday, but I didn’t break my habit of over three ...

04/25/2025

May/June Red Clover Clinic Newsletter

04/24/2025

Over the decades that our students have gotten out of pain by learning the Gokhale Method®, it has become clear that healthy glutes are essential in this. Well-functioning glutes hold the key to unlocking many poor postural habits, and contribute to better biomechanics and movement. Good glute func...

04/10/2025

Rob Buirgy reached out having sustained a multiple fragment compression fracture of his T12 vertebra (in the middle of the back). Despite being in a body brace afterwards, having already followed the Gokhale Method for a couple of years, Rob’s instinct told him that our method would be able to hel...

03/27/2025

One of my favorite courses in college was called Italian Renaissance Sculpture and Art. Professor Sherman at Princeton opened my eyes to all sorts of beauty, innovation, and history. Of course, Leonardo da Vinci loomed large in the pantheon of great Italian artists and innovators. Leonardo melded ar...

03/13/2025

In our culture a loss of up to 50% of the height of the discs as we age from our twenties to our fifties is considered normal. It follows that the herniations, nerve pain, and arthritic change that accompanies this chronic degeneration of our discs is also not seen as unusual. Pain and reduced abili...

03/01/2025

March/April Red Clover Clinic Newsletter

02/27/2025

For many people, their first encounter with back pain is when they become parents. That was certainly true in my case, although, to be factually correct, I was a mom-to-be in the ninth month of my first pregnancy when a herniated disc brought me, literally, to my knees.

01/02/2025

In keeping with Laura’s wishes her student photographs are not featured in this blog post. We are always happy to respect our contributors' wishes for privacy. We are very grateful for Laura’s generosity in sharing her personal posture journey, and are sure that you, our readers, will appreciate...

01/02/2025

January/February Red Clover Clinic Newsletter

January/February 2025In this issue:—A year in review and what's to come in 2025...—Marie's Body of Knowledge—Thank you and farewell to Roberta! —Did…

11/21/2024

Have you ever lain in bed wondering when your feet will warm up? And why your knee injury is taking forever to heal? Or what you are going to do about those varicose veins? Why you feel so stiff in the morning? Or why your bunions are getting worse despite your ever-so-sensible shoes? Come to think....