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 roll the shoulders
A Micro Pause to connect breath and movement to access deeper layers of relaxation. We move the shoulders slowly and use the breath as a focus point to help us get into a meditative state.
Standing, breathing rotation
A Micro Pause that gives a sense of spaciousness in the upper body. Connecting breath and a rotation of the spine, working slowly and with a curious mind.
Knee to nose
A Micro Pause that energises and gives a sense of aliveness through the entire body. We work the legs one at a time to help release the lower back.
