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.
Open up the chest with a spinal wave
A Micro Pause to create a sense of spaciousness through the upper body. We make a spinal wave and spend som time negotiating space in the side body.
A yoga warrior for you
A Micro Pause that is a mini yoga class. We make Virabhadrasana 2 and add a juicy arm circle. We explore the relationship between grounded feet and more length in the rest of the body.
Standing wide legged arm circle
A Micro Pause with a full body flow, raising the energy and boosting circulation in the body. We stand and use the chair for support while we make a full body arm circle.
