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Get taller with hip & lower back stretches. Make your back limber & flexible, whilst stretching the spine.
Note: When performing stretching or any exercise, always listen to your body. Learn to distinguish good pain from bad pain. Listen to your body and do not push too hard and injure yourself. If unsure, always check with your doctor. It is always best to check with your doctor before beginning on any exercise.
These exercises will make the back limber & flexible, whilst stretching the spine.
1. Cats Cow from Chair
- Sit with your spine straight and both feet flat on the floor.
- Feel both buttock bones pressing into your chair.
- Firmly grasp your kneecaps and hold them. Shoulders and arms are relaxed.
- Inhale slowly, pressing and lifting your chest forward and up.
- Exhale slowly rounding your back, pulling your navel in to your spine and curling your shoulders forward.
-Repeat until your body feels relaxed and loose.
2. Spinal Twist
- Sit with your spine straight and both feet flat on the floor.
- Place your left ankle on top of your right knee.
- Breathing long and deep, slowly stretch your upper body over your left leg, leading with the crown of your head.
- Let your arms hang to the ground or rest them at your sides.
- Relax your neck.
- Take five to ten deep, long breaths.
- Listen to your thoughts and release them with each exhale.
- To complete this posture: round your back, uncurling each vertebrae.
- Release your left leg and repeat on the other side.
3. Lower Back Stretch with Shoulders
- Do the lower back stretch, remembering to breathe long and deep.
- Rest your hands behind your lower back and interlace your fingers.
- Squeeze the heels of your hands and shoulder blades. Relax your neck.
- Slowly raise your interlaced hands behind you, up towards the sky.
- Breathe deeply into your chest.
- Take five to ten deep breaths.
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