| Yoga is a form of movement to the body that is | | | | and place it over your left shoulder and move it in |
| extremely beneficial for our well being. It uses a | | | | a circular fashion over the whole shoulder, as if |
| combination of breathing with movement to | | | | you are soothing the shoulder. This process is |
| stretch our joints and muscles into specific | | | | doing 3 simultaneous things: a) It is relaxing the |
| positions. This capturing of movement and | | | | left shoulder, which an become stiff with lack of |
| breathing together, allows our body and ourselves | | | | movement and b) It is also actively moving the |
| feel calmer and more able to perform the | | | | right shoulder in rotational movements that are |
| required task of prolonged sitting in comfort. | | | | needed by the arm for productive activity and c) |
| Since people that practice Yoga have finely tuned | | | | It is stimulating each hand as it massages each |
| bodies, there is an assumption that 'Yogis' are lean | | | | shoulder for stimulating the nerve endings in the |
| and fit. Yet how were they when they started? | | | | hand. |
| No man is an island. There is always a starting | | | | This whole process can be repeated on the |
| point for anything. You can start with 3 Yoga | | | | opposite side, so that the shoulders are getting |
| moves today in your Ergonomic chair. These | | | | sensational stimulation as well as productively |
| moves will help your body move for relieving | | | | active movement. |
| your pain and breathing in to a position of | | | | 3. Adequate breathing is an important part of |
| comfort. | | | | Yoga moves, so I will show you how to breathe |
| 1. Let's introduce you to the Sunrise Salutation | | | | correctly. Start by slowing your breathing down |
| (not to be confused with the Sun Salutation). | | | | and 'feeling' your breath. Now watch your lungs |
| Place your hands in the prayer position in front of | | | | move as you breathe. Your lungs are in your rib |
| you, take a deep breath and point your finger tips | | | | cage, but you should also be using your |
| towards you while raising your elbows up high in | | | | diaphragm, which is a dome-shaped muscle that |
| the air. Your hands will want to come apart as | | | | stretches under the lungs and encourages more |
| you raise them higher and higher. Let them get as | | | | air into the lungs, particularly when you are doing |
| higher as you can reach in the breath, then slowly | | | | exercise. |
| exhale and allow them to come down to the side | | | | Forcing air out of your lungs, like blowing into a |
| in a big arc. Then allow them to return to the | | | | balloon will stimulate a greater exhalation and |
| prayer position again. | | | | increase your capacity for increasing your breath. |
| This whole movement provides you with a large | | | | Yoga is a philosophy or therapeutic practice that is |
| quantity of air in your lungs, plus a stretch to your | | | | not harmful to the body, but calming and enabling |
| neck, arms, back and pelvis. The whole process | | | | practice that can be used by anyone who needs |
| has just energized your body in preparation for | | | | guidance in correct movements for reducing |
| comfortable sitting in a chair. | | | | discomforts in the human body such as back pain. |
| 2. The next movement is to take your right hand | | | | |