Ellen Croft invites you to reconstruct your entire state of being with newfound self-awareness, more physical strength, and a playful spirit to boot! In just 10 easy tips, she teaches great posture, redefines your relationship with gravity and life long patterns, and transforms your body and mind into a sassy, new, confident you. Ellen Croft's 10 Tips for Great Posture is an easy-to-use guidebook that teaches the reader how to build great posture. It condenses Pilates Master Instructor and author Ellen Croft’s thirty years of exploration, wisdom, and hands-on teaching into ten simple, yet powerful tips. Each fun tip combines a straightforward physical move with playful awareness training. The ten tips can be practiced anywhere, anytime. They do not require any kind of equipment, and are guaranteed to help the reader rebuild and re-inhabit their body with a newfound sense of strength, joy, and ease. Posture is more than a study in muscles and bones: it’s personal. How a person enters a room speaks volumes. It reveals how they feel physically, mentally, and emotionally. Consider how our stance reflects what’s going on in the moment. How many of us appear caved in, with our heads hanging heavy? How does that feel? Defeated, maybe grief-stricken? How many of us walk with a bounce in our step, our heads held high? How does that feel? Happy, proud, joyful? Life’s burdens and delights can reshape how we look and feel on a daily basis. It takes a lot of know-how to reawaken our bodies into finding the best way to look and feel good. The ten tips empowers the reader to discover a new relationship with their body. Following the tips can open up a collapsed chest, relieve back pain, and offer more support and freedom in the neck and upper body. The tips also teach healthy breathing patterns to strengthen the abdominals, mid-back, and pelvic floor. But the tips go beyond the physical. The goal of this book is nothing less than transformative. In just ten easy moves you will redefine your relationship with long-held patterns and habits, remodeling your body and mind with a healthier and happier way of being. Rest assured, once we practice the ten tips, all of us will have a valuable set of tools to guide us into great posture—at home and in the world—for the rest of our lives.