Body Intelligence – Finding ease for the lower back, 3: moving your rib cage
by josefine | Jun 6, 2025
Sometimes sore and tense muscles cause back pain, sometimes back pain cause sore and tense muscles. Whatever the case, by learning to move your rib cage separately from your pelvis you will have a tool that help you release those tight muscles along the sides of the spine. When you round your back you will extend those muscles in one direction, when you move your rib cage to the side, you will extent them in a different direction. Moving the muscles in all possible directions is always good! Especially since the long muscles along the spine are not actually two big muscles but lots os smaller muscles with fibres running in different directions. In this Micro Pause we learn to move the rib cage separately from the hips and at the same time give an inner massage to the muscles along the sides of the spine.
Breathe and twist
A Micro Pause moving meditation with breath. We use the breath to raise our arms and move into a gentle rotation, shifting from side to side. A relaxing pause that brings balance to the body.
Wide legged spine circle with side stretch.mp4
A Micro Pause to help you give your lower back a gentle inner massage, and also gets into the hips, shoulders and the sides of the body.
Short unstructured shoulder movement
A Micro Pause to release tension in the shoulders. A guidance into unstructured movements of the shoulders. Unstructured because only then can we get into all the parts of the shoulders and the neck area.
