Weebles wobble
Here we go again. My winter blues has been really strong this year. This is a post that I started writing in February, and I've ciome back to the post a couple of times in the months since. I have thought long and hard about whether I want to share what's been...
Pelvic scritches
This is a lovely movement that I find helps to soften the low back and pelvis. Is similar to the Scapula Scritch, but the other end of ths spine. Why do I call it a scritch? Well, it's a word I've (possibly) made up that is kind of like a scratch or an itch. ...
Scapula scritches
This is a lovely movement that I find helps to soften the shoulders and neck. It gets into the muscles that help to control the position and motion of the scapula and so helps with repositioning. In modern life the shoulderblades have a tendency to roll forwards as...
Motion and rest
We’re at the start of the year and many people set New Year’s resolutions at the start of the month. A significant number of these are to improve our health and wellbeing, and I’m all for that. Many of them fall by the wayside, and I'm ok with that too. I will do...
Foot yoga
The feet are an area that many of us over look, and may try to not think about. However, they are how we interact with the world and move through it so we should at times give them some love. There are 22 bones (!) in the foot itself, and they have 33 joints! The...
Piriformis – seated
This is such a classic stretch that many people do, and it can be seen as variation of Pigeon pose from the Yoga traditions, or the Sign of Four from Pilates. It can also be done lying on the ground and I have also shown it as part of my "Meeting Stretches" but as...
Clam shell – Gluteus Minimus
This is a variation of the Classic Clamshell and this is meant to help focus the effort into one of the deeper hip stabiliser muscles. This is that is the Gluteus Minimus muscle. This muscle runs vertically from from the boney point of the Greater Trochanter (which...
Clamshell – Gluteus Medius
This is quite a classic movement that is meant to help strengthen one of the hip stabilisers that is the Gluteus Medius muscle. This muscle fans across the side of the pelvis, from the boney point of the Greater Trochanter (which most people will point to when...
Side of body – lying
The side of the body can be an area that has a lot of tight areas. It can be the waist area or the hips and sides of the legs. So this stretch can be used to access all of them: the quadratus lumborum (QL) or the Glute Minimus, the Tensor Fascia Lata (TFL) and into...