Try moving – Posture: your core
This week’s challenge – Engaging your core. A week of standing, sitting and walking with your lower abdominal muscles (your core) engaged.
Getting to the posture.
It’s a bit tricky to describe how to get to a posture in writing, I do this by using straight-forward instructions as well as guided imagery of what you should feel the body doing:
· The Hips: Slightly rolled in. Imagine your hips being a spoon and they scoop up a small portion of ice cream. Your lower abdominals are pulling together, your lower vertebrae slightly spaced out
· The Shoulders: Need to be relaxed, falling away from you ears. Notice your shoulder blades slightly apart.
· Your Head: The back of your head slightly tilting up, creating extra space for your neck vertebrae, resulting in a slight gaze downwards.
THERE. That’s your posture for this week.
As you go through the week with your posture like this, notice:
Physically:
1. How do you feel in your body in general?
2. How does your core feel?
3. How does your back feel?
4. How does your neck feel?
5. What other parts of your body are affected?
Cognitively
6. What do you see that you didn’t notice before, specifically referring to focus?
7. How are you defining situations you’re in, specifically what gets the weight of your attention?
Socially
8. How are you feeling in social interactions?
9. How are people responding to you?
10. Who are you choosing to interact with and what are your considerations when choosing them?
11. How do you see your role in the social circles that you interact with throughout this week?
Try Moving with trimoving – experience new ways of being and choose how you want to be. Keep note of the good things you would want to keep, and include them now and always in your daily life. What does it mean with regards to permanent changes to your everyday posture?
Simple steps to becoming the ME you want to BE.
* The Content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.