Walking is a balanced system (informed by Yoga?)

I was on a flight back to Chicago, sitting next to my 3 year old son, and a wonderful thing happened. He fell asleep as soon as we took off. I happened to have a whole New York Times in my possession, with a blissful 90 minutes of leisure to read it. I came across an article about people taking lessons on walking from their Yoga instructor. The concept is that most people's body awareness is remarkably limited in maximizing one's walking efficiency. The resulting inefficiency leads to sore backs, ankles, legs, etc.

During 10 sessions over about seven months, students learned to walk with their feet parallel, weight evenly distributed and bodies aligned.

One student described that

"back pain was gone and walking stride had changed drastically."

The Yoga instructor, Jonathan FitzGordon, owner of Yoga Center of Brooklyn:

"Most Americans don’t have a clue how to step, People would enter with terrible posture,” he said. “Then they’d do beautiful yoga, and listen to everything I said about alignment. As soon as class ended, they went straight into the bad posture.”

The Times piece went on to describe that,

Under Mr. FitzGordon’s instruction, the clients try to correct their entire movement system rather than address aching knees or shoulders in isolation. “The body is like a machine,” he said. “Each part has it’s own job, and everything is connected.”

A physical manifestation of sensing the balance?