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In this segment we'll talk about rolling the joints. We begin with rolling the neck, now
when you do this it's not about trying to use your muscles, trying to do a big movement.
It could be a very, very small movement but what you want to do is to move from the perspective
of the spine itself. So you have to really look inwardly and you go both directions.
And then you do that a number to times and then you move into your shoulders. Now this
idea is not do a big shoulder roll, it's just really very gentle, very small. And you want
to be paying attention to the way your shoulder joint actually feels as you go in both directions.
Then we move our way down into our hips. When you do the hip joint, you have to let your
knees be a little bit soft, if you don't it will lock up your hips. Again this is very
small, so when you roll your hips you can envision that you are standing in a pool of
water. So you're just rolling your hips or rolling and swimming in that water without
any stress or strain at all. Now when you go to your ankles what you can do is hold
on to a chair and touch with your toe. Rolling your heel, drawing a circle with your heel
in both directions. And then finally we work our way up to the wrists and we clasp our
fingers together, making sure we touch the palms and letting the wrists roll to get a
nice natural smooth motion of the wrists.