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Tag: Stretching

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Cat Cow This beautiful movement deepens our connection to our body, syncing with our breath for emotional balance.  Here’s how! Come to an all fours or table-top position, with your hands and knees on the floor. Align your hands under your shoulders and your knees…

  • Mindful Monday

    Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice 🫨Somatic Shaking 🫨 When we experience a shock, upset or trauma, one of the body’s natural responses is to shake. This motion can help release energy, which ‘completes’ the stress response and regulates the nervous system. Intentional shaking can dissolve stress and move the nervous…

  • Twelfth Day of Stretchmas

    Stretching Tips: Part 2 Strength before bendiness Combine gentle stretches with strength work, especially if your are hypermobile. Strength and flexibility together can make for “powerful weapons” against anxiety.            Reference   Reference Williams, C. (2021). Move: How the new science of body movement can set your mind free. Toronto, Ontario,…

  • Eleventh Day of Stretchmas

    Stretching Tips: Part 1 Pandiculate After an extended period of sitting, stand up and stretch your arms and legs. It reminds your brain that you have limbs as well as relaxing tight muscles. Aim for at least once every hour (if not more). Move, stretch, twist to release the fascia around the muscles and organs, and…

  • Second Day of Stretchmas

    Dead Bug Perform 10 repetitions each side, 2 times.  

  • First Day of Stretchmas

    Cat-Cow 10 repetitions  Perform daily to warm-up prior to exercise. Also recommended to perform after extended periods of sitting or if experience tightness in upper/mid/lower back. 

  • Workout Wednesday

  • Workout Wednesday

  • Quick Morning Workout

    WAKE UP, Sleepyhead!! It’s Time for your Quick Morning Workout! Duration: Less than 20 minutes! Step 1: Warm-Up (6 minutes) Arm Circles: 30 seconds Chest Expander: 30 seconds http://youtu.be/oBy28yST0jg via JakesHomeWorkouts Calf Raises: 30 seconds Running in Place: 30 seconds High Knees: 30 seconds http://youtu.be/bZUfaLxJ36M via Howcast Butt Kicks: 30 seconds http://youtu.be/D_qMNWY0tHo via Howcast Backward Lunge with Front…

  • Test Your Posture: Part 3

    The last post of this three part series will cover your shoulder complex and upper body positioning.  I will discuss the three common postural distortions observed in my clients, and recommend flexibility and strengthening exercises to combat these asymmetries, or muscle imbalances.  Arms Fall Forward Overactive (tight) Muscles Latissimus Dorsi: O –  T7-T12, Iliac Crest (pelvis), Thoracolumbar…