About Dr. Steven Weiniger

Posture impacts how you move, breathe, balance, and live

I’m a chiropractor, posture educator, and the developer of the StrongPosture® protocol — a systematic, biomechanics-based approach to assessing, rehabilitating, and strengthening posture. I’m based outside Atlanta, Georgia, and I’ve trained thousands of practitioners worldwide to use it with their patients.

I view posture as a continuous interface between the nervous system’s predictive models and lived physical reality. Posture is observable, measurable, and an actionable key to whole person health.

In 2024, I was lead author of a perspective paper in Frontiers in Neuroscience that explored something I’d observed clinically for years: patients can’t accurately perceive their own alignment. That neurological blind spot — what we call Interoceptive Posture Awareness & Accuracy — may help explain whether biomechanical corrections last.

My work reaches people directly through books and courses, and indirectly through the clinicians I train. I also founded PostureMonth.org to bring public attention to how much posture matters for health, function, and quality of life.

Credentials & Appointments

Clinical Practice

DC, DIANM, CPEP®. Decades of clinical practice focused on posture rehabilitation, biomechanics, and exercise integration across patient populations.

University Faculty

Adjunct Faculty, University of Western States. Postgraduate Instructor, University of Bridgeport. Presentations at Northwestern, Parker College, and other institutions.

Author

Stand Taller Live Longer, Posture Pictures, the StrongPosture® Professional Training Manual, and the postural assessment chapter in Photographic Manual of Regional Orthopaedic and Neurologic Tests.

Founder

PostureMonth.org — annual public awareness initiative. StrongPosture® protocol and CPEP® certification program for practitioners.

White House Conference on Aging

Appointed delegate developing policy recommendations for the President and Congress on issues of health and aging.

Published Perspective

Lead author of perspective paper in Frontiers in Neuroscience on Interoceptive Posture Awareness & Accuracy (IPA&A), with Dr. Nathan Schilaty.

What drives the work

I got into this because I kept seeing patients who had been told their pain was just something to manage — that their declining mobility was inevitable. I didn’t believe that, and the outcomes I was seeing in practice confirmed it.

The StrongPosture® protocol grew out of clinical necessity — I needed a systematic way to assess what was actually happening biomechanically, correct it in a logical progression, and give patients tools to maintain it on their own. The books, the certification, the courses — each of those came later, because practitioners and patients asked for them.

What keeps me going are the stories. The physician who took his first deep breath in years after one day of training. The practitioner who calls to say her patients have found hope again. And the ripple effect — every practitioner I train carries these protocols to their own patients. That reach is what fuels this.

I’m focused now on the neuroscience — understanding why posture awareness fails and how we can systematically improve it. I believe we’re at the beginning of something important, and I want to help build the evidence base that gets it taken seriously.

Selected Achievements

Practice

Clinical Foundation

Opened practice outside Atlanta focused on posture rehabilitation and biomechanics. Began developing what would become the StrongPosture® protocol through hands-on work with patients.

WHCoA

White House Conference on Aging

Appointed delegate developing national policy recommendations on health and aging for the President and Congress.

5 Principles

The 5 Posture Principles

Concepted and copyrighted the foundational principles that are at the core of all StrongPosture® protocols, publications, and training.

Books

Stand Taller Live Longer & Posture Pictures

Published consumer and clinical books, making the StrongPosture® methodology accessible to both patients and practitioners.

CPEP®

Practitioner Certification

Launched the CPEP® certification program, training practitioners worldwide in the StrongPosture® protocol — creating a ripple effect through their patients.

2022

NIH Whole Person Health

Presented as a delegate at the inaugural NIH/NCCIH Stakeholder Meeting for Research on Whole Person Health, contributing to national research priorities on health promotion, self-care, and the role of posture as an actionable biobehavioral determinant of health.

2024

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Published perspective paper on Interoceptive Posture Awareness & Accuracy with Dr. Nathan Schilaty — the hidden neurological layer.

2025

Active Inference Symposium

Presented "Interoceptive Posture Pictures for Active Inference-Informed Neuromusculoskeletal Therapy" and participated in the interprofessional panel "Making Active Inference Clinically Actionable" — extending BioBE and StrongPosture® into the active inference research community.

Get in touch

I’m available for speaking, training, media interviews, research collaboration, and clinical questions.