These exercises are great to do in the morning to get the blood flowing to all those aching muscles, or to prepare muscles that are aching to climb!
This one stretches out your neck, shoulders and upper back.
This one adds on to the previous one and stretches a little further down the back.
This one just has cool mysterious music!
Ok, really it's a great seated stretch for the upper back and arms.
Remember to breath out when you extend the arms and in when you bring them to your waist.
This one can strengthen the grip and forearm muscles.
The key to that though is to do it with a firm, strong grip - imagine that you are grabbing onto a log with each hand and gripping it tight as you do the exercise.
Open the fingers slightly as the hands reach out & close them slightly as the hands pull in.
Also feel the connection, as if it were magnetic, between the center of each palm and your center of gravity above the waist.
Here's one more that helps to loosen up the shoulders.
Be sure to rotate as far as you can in each direction. Emphasize the raising and sinking co-ordinated with the breath - raise up and breath in, sink down and breath out.
If you enjoy this sort of meditative movement practice, there are a lot of subtleties to co-ordinating the breath and moving from your center with all limbs in synchronicity, and there is a whole "internal art" to rooting & moving the qi. Private instruction is available. Contact me at (828)773-5032.
Until then, keep breathing and climbing!
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