Chest Extension Restorative Yoga

Video Transcript

"A really great way to relieve your shoulder tension as well as opening your heart and opening up the back door to the heart is with chest extension Inflection. So I'm going to ask Gina to take her hands to her shoulders. Notice how she's sitting in heroes pose on, or heels, now you can sit in any comfortable seated position or you can even do this standing. Just get somewhere comfortable. But notice she has the nice long spine, that part you need to have no matter how you?re sitting. She's going to inhale and we want to lift her elbows up so they're in line with her shoulders, good, but you want to make sure your shoulders are relax, so make sure you don't pull your shoulders up to your ears as you do this. She's going to inhale in and as she inhales, she's going to pull her shoulder blades back together. So she's squeezing through the rombouise, right here in the middle of her back, she's got like a crease right there. Good. And now she exhales, she's going to bring her elbows together, opening up the back door to her heart, so her shoulder blades are pressing away from each other. Good. She's going to inhale, open up her heart, fill the lungs from the bottom up, good, the shoulders, the elbows come back, like they're pressing a beach ball together behind you. And then she's going to exhale and pull those elbows together, drawing her belly button in, good, and opening up this back door to your lung, good, and then bringing the elbows out to the sides and lowering the hands back. Great way to relieve shoulder tension."