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another blanket.)
Keep breathing, slowly rocking side to side.
As this becomes easier, use your hands to move your knees in a clockwise circle. Begin
with smaller circles and let the circles become larger. Feel your lower back flattening
and stretching as it relaxes. Reverse the circle and keep breathing.
Continue as long as you like. Then change to a back and forward movement rolling from
head to the base of your spine. Hold your opposite ankles or move your hands under
thighs and rock as long as it feels good, massaging your entire back and spine.
To come to a sitting position, cross your legs, grab your opposite big toes, and rock up,
pulling on your toes.
2. Counteract hunching over a book or keyboard with this back bend.
Roll a towel or small blanket and place under your chest about breastbone height.
Experiment for the best location until you feel very good. Try placing the roll along
your back bone. Also under the knees can be relaxing.
Relax on the floor and breathe, allowing chest to open. Take slow deep breaths. (Very
flexible? Use a rolled yoga mat.) This is sometimes called the modified Fish Pose.
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10. Listen to Relaxation; One Breath at a Time
Keep breathing, slowly rocking side to side.
As this becomes easier, use your hands to move your knees in a clockwise circle. Begin
with smaller circles and let the circles become larger. Feel your lower back flattening
and stretching as it relaxes. Reverse the circle and keep breathing.
Continue as long as you like. Then change to a back and forward movement rolling from
head to the base of your spine. Hold your opposite ankles or move your hands under
thighs and rock as long as it feels good, massaging your entire back and spine.
To come to a sitting position, cross your legs, grab your opposite big toes, and rock up,
pulling on your toes.
2. Counteract hunching over a book or keyboard with this back bend.
Roll a towel or small blanket and place under your chest about breastbone height.
Experiment for the best location until you feel very good. Try placing the roll along
your back bone. Also under the knees can be relaxing.
Relax on the floor and breathe, allowing chest to open. Take slow deep breaths. (Very
flexible? Use a rolled yoga mat.) This is sometimes called the modified Fish Pose.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. Listen to Relaxation; One Breath at a Time
On this page we'll try ways to relieve and prevent the physical and mental that
don't take you too far from your computer and some breathing exercises that can
relax or energize.
don't take you too far from your computer and some breathing exercises that can
relax or energize.
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