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.
Spinal waves, lunge and wide legged seat
A Micro Pause where we use the spinal waves to wake up all the connections from the lower upwards, and down into the hip flexors and thighs. Waving with legs wide and waving in a supported lunge.
Wrists with hands on chair
A Micro Pause for your wrists. Builds strength and increases mobility in the wrists. May help prevent RSI. This exercise is done standing with your hands on your chair.
Wrists with arm to the side
A Micro Pause to strengthen your wrists and to help prevent RSI.
