In this video, I show you one of the best posture correction exercises I know. I’ve given it to Olympic athletes and clients who could barely walk. It’s that effective.

This position uses two underrated tools:

• The floor, which gives your body a perfectly flat reference point

• Gravity, which helps your muscles reset and rebalance

Over time, your upper back starts to take the shape of the floor — helping to undo the effects of slouching, hunching, and forward-head posture. And when your legs are up like this, it gives your hips and lower back a chance to reset too — easing tension, balancing the pelvis, and calming pain in the knees, hips or low back.

It’s usually the first thing I give clients who come in with pain. And often, just lying in this position helps their symptoms start to settle.

Before doing the exercise, I ask clients to stand and notice what’s happening in their body:

• Where’s the weight in your feet?

• Is it even left to right? Front to back?

• Any tension or pain in the body?

Then we do the exercise for 5–10 minutes. Afterward, they stand again — and more often than not, they feel the difference immediately. Standing taller. Breathing easier. Sometimes the changes are so noticeable, we both end up grinning.

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Written by Ameet Bhakta, BSc, DipHE
Certified Postural Alignment Specialist (Egoscue Institute)
Founder of Health Through Posture, London & Tunbridge Wells