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Summary: Yoga suggestions to relieve back pain. Learn the yoga Shoulder Stabilizer exercise to promote a healthy back in this free video.
Elizabeth Cafferky is a yoga instructor at Yoga Yoga studio in Austin, Texas. More information about her and about Yoga Yoga can be found at www.yogayoga.comread more
"So similar to stabilizing your lower back with your abdominals, you can learn to stabilize your shoulders by extending your fingertips up towards the ceiling and trying to create a movement without taking your shoulder blades off your back. Stabilizing from the front of the body, opening there, expanding between your chest. So this stabilization exercise is reaching the fingertips behind you and then drawing the arm back up, keeping the shoulders stably secured on the floor. As you exhale, the opposite arm can reach overhead. Inhale. Draw the fingers back up. And exhale, alternating again, keeping the neck long and the chest open so you are broadening in the shoulder girdle and feeling the shoulder blades connecting onto the back. "
eHow Article: Yoga Shoulder Stabilizer