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.
Easy desk stretch
A Micro Pause to bring som aliveness into the tissue of the torso. We make three easy stretches, with instruction to direct your awareness to where you can get a fuller experience of the exercise.
Down dog side stretch
A Micro Pause to really open up the sides of your body and your armpits. We make the yoga position Adho Mukha Svanasana with the chair for support.
Faster spinal waves
A Micro Pause about the spine. Increase spinal mobility and help stimulate the entire spinal cord. We make spinal waves with full awareness on the inside of the body.
