With
Backbone and Wingspan unique movement methods you develop a liberating
"Power Sitting" Posture!
The New Integrated Back Strength and Spine Support website provides movement-oriented exercises and stretches that relay principles of support for practical utilization in posture that serves long periods of sitting that many people endure.
The "Power Sitting" Posture Clinic held in July of 2009 hosted a great group of people interested in really learning the elements of stability that lead to both support and freedom.
I wish here to relate some responses to the feedback questions that a few attendees of the clinic responded to.
I wish to put forth the responses as well as some reflections from myself and the other practitioners as a refresher for those who attended this clinic or the one we had previously in May.
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What is it that attracted you to a clinic named "Power Sitting" Posture?
* This is how I spend my entire day -
sitting at my desk or sitting in meetings.
* The realization that poor posture dictates
my sitting and standing.
* I spend way too much time sitting,
and am always interested in how to improve my posture.
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One practitioner voiced the intention underlying the "Power Sitting" Posture clinic:
"I think the strength and difference between our workshops and others is that we are approaching the sitting-at-a-work-station issue from a movement standpoint rather than from a static positioning.
Ergonomics is the study of human use and most medical and ergonomic clinics deal with the passive set up of the individual, and the movement of their inanimate objects (computer, desk, mouse, arm rests, etc.).
With our intended goal of providing information and the experience of the moving and sensing self, our attendees gain useful ideas for being in their work places more comfortably."
The thing to understand here is that posture is not positioning or holding, and that your body adjusts to the needs of your work.
In working with lunging exercises for hip pain relief and
stretches for release of hip flexor muscle tightness
it's important to relate the foot to the pelvis when working with the legs:
while also relating the hand to the shoulder girdle when working with the arms:
These videos show the workings of upper part of the back body
which frees tension from the shoulders and neck and upper back
that can become clenched and painful from sitting at a computer
Participants in the clinic explored this in learning how to move the arms and upper body to reach (imaginatively) towards the phone, or file cabinet, or stack of papers using the pelvis to perform the movements.
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What changes in your body do you feel from the time you arrived to now?
- I feel that I am standing on my feet.
- My neck feels much more relaxed.
- I feel that I have been put through the rigors of a workout and
- I feel more aware and proprioceptive
- I feel taller and straighter
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Which of the images related to you during the movements were helpful?
"Breathing through the "gills" - great image"
Use the image of breathing through the sides of the ribs as if the ribs are fish gills .
This image helps people to refrain from too much chest and belly breathing.
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Breathing into the sides of the ribs helps to expand the mid back,
so that the muscles there -
the lower trapezius and lats
can be activated.
These back muscles are very supportive of the spine. A better supported spine means release of the overworked neck and shoulders muscles.
Sitting a long day at your desk, you may not be able to perform a big stretch, but you can certainly take moments to breathe into the sides of the ribs.
Pictured above is a Pilates exercise in which breathing into the ribs is essential
so that the arm movement comes from the power of the back and not the shoulders.
The Foot Function for Spinal Support & Pain Relief Website
for will show you the detailed the information you will receive
and then you'll be able to take the information you get in reading and trying and
applying the body-mind and heel-to-hip-to-spine-to-core information
into any other exercise or sports program you currently pursue.
That's the true value!
Herald, Backbone and Wingspan founder and owner
is the author of this Body Mind & Spine blog as well as
Heel & Sole for Foot Pain which focuses more extensively
on the feet, especially for women who wear high heels.
Herald can be contacted at
212-647-8878 or through emailing
info@backboneandwingspan.com or
herald@backboneandwingspan.com
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