Office Chair Yoga: Neck Stretch

Video Transcript

"The next thing that we're going to stretch are the neck muscles along the cervical spine on the back and the scalings along the front of the neck which can get really really tight under stress and if you hunch the shoulders up to the ears a lot. So I want you to relax your hands on your lap with a deep breath inhale and exhale slowly tilting the right ear over to the right shoulder. With every inhalation you're going to lift, every exhalation lengthen and drop the ear closer to the shoulder a little bit deeper; inhale lengthen, exhale dropping it over. Once you've gone as far as you can go slowly tilt the chin around to the chest to get a deep stretch and then turning it all the way up to the ceiling. Finding where ever the stretch is deepest and you feel it the most and then you'll hold it in that position. It will be different for every person and on every given day, it may be a little bit different, so finding where it's tightest and just take deep breaths inhale, exhale and lengthen. If you'd like if you want to gently rub on that scaling muscle if it helps to loosen it up you can. Then exhale slowly bringing it center then your going to repeat the same thing on the other side so deep breath in, exhale slowly tilting the ear to the shoulder. For several deep breaths, inhale lifting, exhale lengthening deepening the stretch and then slowly rotating it over chin to the chest and then chin up to the ceiling. Finding where ever it feels best holding that stretch and if you like, you can gently massage the muscle. Then slowly bringing it back to center feeling the balance and the effects of the stretch."