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Desktop Yoga
Courtesy of www.mydailyyoga.com
- Sit up tall in your chair, or if possible, stand up. Stretch your arms overhead and interlock your fingers, turn the palms to the ceiling. Take a deep breath in and on the exhale, extend your side torso and take the tips of the shoulder blades into the body. Take another deep breath and on the exhale, stretch to the right, inhale, come up and stretch to the left.
- On an inhale, lift your shoulders up to your ears and then exhale and let them drop. Repeat 3 times. Contract the trapezius muscle fully when you lift your shoulders up and then on the drop it will release more completely.
- Take your hands behind your back and interlock the fingers, stretching the shoulders back, opening the chest. Take several breaths. Make sure that your head stays in the midline and that your eye gaze is on the horizon.
- Stand by the wall, extend your right arm and place your palm on the wall with the fingers up. On an exhale, turn your chest away, taking the shoulder blade into the torso. Repeat on left side.
- Stand at your desk and place your palms in the desktop with the fingers pointing towards your body. Gently stretch the lower arm and wrist.
- Reach the right arm into the air and on an exhale bend the elbow and reach your fingers down the back, between the shoulder blades. Place the left hand on the elbow and on an exhale, gently pull the elbow to the left. Relax the ribs and hold for several breaths. Release and repeat on the other side.
- Sit forward in your chair and open the legs a little wider than the hips. Lean forward from the hips and drop your torso down. Let the head and arms hang toward the floor. Take several breaths and slowly come back up.