I grew up in Hawaii — surfing, paddling, always moving. Desk work changed that. By the time COVID hit, four years of bad sitting had turned into back and neck pain that could be set off by surfing, playing with my kids, even turning to check a mirror in the car. Two physical therapists helped, a little. Neither fixed it.
The fix came from a posture method called Aplomb, taught at The Balance Center in the Bay Area under Jean Couch — work descending from Noëlle Perez, a Frenchwoman who'd been one of B.K.S. Iyengar's earliest Western students before turning her own research toward how people without modern furniture actually sat: upright, easy, pain-free. Once I learned to feel my own skeleton actually stacked, my pain didn't fade — for me, it vanished, within weeks. I still teach what I've learned to friends and family, as a student of it myself.
The key insight underneath all of it is the position of the pelvis, standing or sitting. Get that right, and the spine has somewhere honest to stack itself. Kathleen Porter — author of Natural Posture for Pain-Free Living and a longtime Aplomb teacher in her own right — designed a wedge that holds that position, with a size, firmness, and look considered enough to actually live on your chair.
For 12 years, she sold it quietly to insiders, posture practitioners, and students in the know. When the opportunity came, I bought the design from her with a simple goal: to bring this proven, time-tested tool to more people who need it.
Today, Posture Supply is a family business built around the exact tool that gave me my life back. We fill them with natural, clean American buckwheat for the perfect balance of lightweight portability and rock-solid support, and we make them by hand right here in America.
I'm back surfing, back playing with my kids, stronger and leaner than I've been in years. Give your spine somewhere honest to start, and see what happens.
