Eagle Arms Yoga Pose to Prevent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Video Transcript

"If you look around, how many people do you see walking around like this with no necks, shoulders pressed up in their ears, carrying all the tension, all the weight right in the shoulders? This can cause carpal tunnel syndrome and tendinitis. Because of our shoulders slumped forward we have improper posture and we end up using the smaller muscle groups and the smaller tendons rather than the larger muscle groups to hold ourselves erect and to do whatever function we are trying to do, whether it be using a tennis racket or typing in a computer. Eagle arms is a great way to teach your shoulders to press down and to open through the backs of the shoulders. So we are going to inhale, reach our arms out to the sides and as you exhale, grab one elbow over the other and take your hands around and press them together. Draw your shoulders down your back and then lift your heart up and bring your elbows up in line with your shoulders and you can feel a really good stretch all the way across your upper back. Inhale in and lift your elbows up to the sky and then as you exhale bend your knees and pull your elbows in to your naval center. So this is an Eagle arm shoulder stretch and what it really does is stretches all the muscles across your back in between your shoulder blades to relieve the tension so maybe we won't walk around like this as no necks and end up with a long neck and no injuries to our wrists or elbows. I'm Cindy Mastry. Namaste."