Yoga For The Upper Back
This six-part course features yoga poses that will help to strengthen and improve mobility in your thoracic spine.
Yoga for your upper back. This six-part course features yoga poses that will help to strengthen and improve mobility in your thoracic spine. With people spending longer periods of time sitting at desks and working on computers, stiffness in these areas is becoming increasingly common in today’s world. It can potentially lead towards painful conditions associated with the neck, spine and shoulders and can negatively impact body posture habits and overall energy levels.
Many people suffer from an excessive forward curvature of the thoracic spine leading towards rounding or hunching in the upper back. Poor postural habits and a sedentary lifestyle can make you more susceptible to this condition. People with upper back rounding will often have tight muscles in their chest and weak muscles associated with the thoracic spine. This course features poses that will help to counteract this tendency and improve the health of your upper back.
The poses featured in this course will help to improve mobility and elasticity in the thoracic spine, open your chest and strengthen the muscles in your upper back, encourage an increased range of motion for the shoulders and their related muscles, increase awareness of healthy posture habits, and help to release tension from the trapezius muscle and general shoulder region. The course guides you in ways of ensuring that you are gently working into these areas without forcing. Alternatives and modifications are suggested for people working with more pronounced stiffness in the upper back, neck and shoulders.