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.
Forward fold circle the knees
A Micro Pause to learn about the connection in the body. Opening up the back of the legs and finding space in the lower back at the same time.
Lunge on a chair
A Micro Pause to fire up your entire body. We work with a supported lunge pose that is static but not still.
Activate and release the hip flexors
A Micro Pause that targets the hip flexors. We activate and then release in a supported lunge.
