Exercises to Improve Posture
Sitting is the new "smoking"!
Move and stretch your body daily to address chronic body achiness, back tension, or hot spots
from long periods of sitting.
Give this movement practice a try...
Side bending, body in a curve like a banana/boomerang with your hand on your hip, or as pictured above, holding onto a wooden barre. Works the adductor & obliques, your side body musculature.
1. Begin standing with weight evenly distributed.
2. Toes rise toward your nose. Resets your weight on your feet.
3. If you are side bending to your Left,
Left hand on L waist. Thumb in line with fingers...
4. Notice that your weight is more pronounced as your right hand reaches wide to right, then over head, then as far left as you comfortably can.
5. Belly presses in toward back.
6. Hold the pose for 3 counts = 3 full breaths.
7. Look at your L elbow as you hold the pose and breathe 3 counts and adjust it to maintain alignment with L hip.
8. Come out slowly, weight shift to left foot as left arm returns to left side.
Repeat on other side.
Practice the Banana/Boomerang alternating each side 2 to 3 times during the day following sitting in front of your computer or at your desk.
Move and stretch your body daily to address chronic body achiness, back tension, or hot spots
from long periods of sitting.
Give this movement practice a try...
Side bending, body in a curve like a banana/boomerang with your hand on your hip, or as pictured above, holding onto a wooden barre. Works the adductor & obliques, your side body musculature.
1. Begin standing with weight evenly distributed.
2. Toes rise toward your nose. Resets your weight on your feet.
3. If you are side bending to your Left,
Left hand on L waist. Thumb in line with fingers...
4. Notice that your weight is more pronounced as your right hand reaches wide to right, then over head, then as far left as you comfortably can.
5. Belly presses in toward back.
6. Hold the pose for 3 counts = 3 full breaths.
7. Look at your L elbow as you hold the pose and breathe 3 counts and adjust it to maintain alignment with L hip.
8. Come out slowly, weight shift to left foot as left arm returns to left side.
Repeat on other side.
Practice the Banana/Boomerang alternating each side 2 to 3 times during the day following sitting in front of your computer or at your desk.
Therapeutic/Restorative Yoga
Enjoy a profoundly relaxing sequence of restful, nourishing postures, breathing techniques, simple meditations and guided imagery.
A simple definition of hatha yoga is to "yoke" or unite the body and mind though awareness, physical and conscious. Yoga is a metaphor for all of life, noticing the unifying principals in moving though every day.
Restorative Yoga is a very gentle style of yoga that is most prescribed by physicians and alternative health care providers, as it is deeply healing and regenerative.
This gentle and relaxing practice provides an effective way to manage the effects of stress, relieve pain of chronic injuries, and maintain health and peace of mind.
Various props, music and readings are used to assist in renewing body, mind and spirit. Good for all levels of practice!
At the heart of yoga, I see the possibility of restoring connections. A way to tune in to look, listen and feel with the "conscious witness" or inner observer.
I experience yoga as natural movement. We humans are continually moving about, much like your family pet. Watch them as they perpetually move and stretch even while resting or sleeping and observe yourself throughout the day, inserting movement breaks when you've been stationary.
I know I will be practicing some form of Yoga for the duration of my life. I practice yoga as I practice hellerwork structural integration. This is my life's work, an opportunity to continue to improve my experience of living and living in every moment and sharing this with others.