Avoid Carpal Tunnel Syndrome With a Shoulder Reach Yoga Pose

Video Transcript

"As our day to day life becomes more computer oriented we tend to become more shlump forward oriented carrying all the tension up in our shoulders. Especially if you're working at a job that you're not particularly happy with. Because from a yogi stand point problems with the wrists and shoulders can be due to holding in problems. And you're holding in things and not breathing properly. Holding in things that are bothering you. Causing problems in the body. So one of the things we can do for that is shoulder reaches. Shoulder reaches are really good for carpal tunnel syndrome or tendonitis because there's absolutely no pressure on your arms whatsoever. So we're just going to inhale and reach the arms up and draw the shoulders down your back. Lengthening through your spine. Lengthening through the back of the neck and pressing the shoulders down. Inhale and reach your arm up just like you were reaching for that ripe fruit right up at the top of the tree. You should feel that stretch all the way to the side all the way down to your hip. And then as you exhale you reach on the other side. Good. So just being able to come through all through that shoulder reaches is a great way to combat carpal tunnel syndrome and tennis elbow because you're not putting any pressure on those muscles and joints and you're bringing the blood flow and strengthening the muscles of the arms and the shoulders. I'm Cindy Mastry. Namaste."