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.
Wave with legs wide and lunge
A full body Micro Pause to energise and increase circulation throughout the body. We are working with spinal waves in three different positions to really get into all layers of the lower back.
Chair pose on a chair
A Micro Pause to build some heat and raise the energy level. The yoga position Utkatasana helps decompress the lower back and builds strength throughout the body.
A wide legged side stretch
A Micro Pause which is great when you just need a quick stretching out and opening of the body. We make a side stretch with the legs wide for support.
