Seated Butterfly Stretch

Seated butterfly stretch is a terrific way to mobilize and strengthen your hips and lower back. This exercise gently strengthens your abdominal and hip flexors and stretches your hip adductors (inner thighs), gluteal muscles and lower back. Begin sitting tall with a straight spine, placing the bottoms of your feet together in front of you. […]

Be careful of New Year’s Resolutions to exercise more!

Many people start new exercise programs as part of their New Year’s Resolution to lose weight, but be careful!  A rushed reconditioning program may find you injured instead.  Doing new exercises with repetitive stress being placed on the muscles, joints, tendons, ligaments and bones may find you more susceptible to sprains, pulled muscles, fractures, shin […]

Thoracic Spine Yoga Stretch

Thoracic Spine Yoga Stretch The Thoracic Spine Yoga Stretch is used to stretch and help relieve pain in the upper – mid back.  How to properly perform this exercise:  Begin on the floor on your hands and knees.  Bring feet together and separate knees. Breathe in and with exhale, right arm reaches under the left […]