Neck, shoulders and upper back, 3: Negotiating with your body
by josefine | Jun 8, 2025
A Micro Pause where we practice viewing our relationship to our bodies as a negotiating one.
Body Intelligence is about treating your body as an ally, not an obstacle, and with allies we negotiate, we do not demand.
Demanding of your muscles to release their grip and extent into their full length (by applying a hard pull) is not very useful. Negotiating with them to do so is much more efficient.
Why? Because thats how the nervous system works. The muscle need to feel like its safe to extend (in the sense that it won’t cause it to break and/or not being able to contract again) in order to let go of its grip. On the level of the nervous system this can be accomplished by a continuous action of gently pulling and releasing.
Breathe and twist
A Micro Pause moving meditation with breath. We use the breath to raise our arms and move into a gentle rotation, shifting from side to side. A relaxing pause that brings balance to the body.
Wide legged spine circle with side stretch.mp4
A Micro Pause to help you give your lower back a gentle inner massage, and also gets into the hips, shoulders and the sides of the body.
Short unstructured shoulder movement
A Micro Pause to release tension in the shoulders. A guidance into unstructured movements of the shoulders. Unstructured because only then can we get into all the parts of the shoulders and the neck area.
