Finishing Stretch
Standing with your feet hip width apart, knees are soft and not ‘locked’. The natural curves of the spine should be present, with your ears, shoulders, hips and ankles stacked on top of one another. Arms are to your sides, palms rotated toward the body.
How to do it
Inhale: Lengthen the crown of the head away from the tailbone. Nod the chin gently and begin to roll down slowly, reaching the fingertips long to the toes.
Exhale: Bend the knees, engage abdominals, gently curl the pelvis forward and begin to articulate one vertebra at a time. Crown of the head is the last to come up, in line with the spine.
Repeat 2-3 times
Be mindful
- As you roll up, think of each vertebra moving independently.
- For tight hamstrings and back, knees can be slightly bent to achieve stability on the center of the sitz bones,
When the mind needs somewhere to land
Everything in this wing points, in the end, to the same place — the breath, and the nervous system beneath it. It is why I built SOVA: a quiet companion for the moments in between.
- Today — a daily practice that aligns you before the day pulls you a dozen directions.
- Companion — a place to process any feeling, even the happy ones.
- Pages — a soft place to set your thoughts down and out of your head.
- The House — rooms of calm to step into, whenever you need one.