15 Kitchen Exercises to Save Your Back & Posture While Standing in the Kitchen | Feldenkrais Style
Channel: Future Life Now
Date: 2018-01-09

Cynthia Allen, Feldenkrais Practitioner, Senior Trainer in Movement Intelligence, and Co-creator of Integral Human Gait theory shares 15 useful Kitchen exercises to save your back posture while standing or cooking in the kitchen. Her signature course Your Better Back opens once a year. You can get on her waitlist for that course here:
This video is just a tiny taster of what you would learn in Your Better Back.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Start
0:26 - #1 Become AWARE of how you stand in the kitchen.
1:57 - #2 Move your pelvis a little forward and back. Look for what feels better.
4:00 - #3 Widen stance.
4:12 - #4 Soften the knees sink in the pelvis.
6:18 - #5 Easy shoulder roll up and back then let it hang.
8:00 - #6 Nudge chest up and sacrum down.
9:40 - #7 Wear supportive shoes when standing for a long period of time.
10:12 - #8 Walk in place Toe to Heel.
11:10 - #9 Dance. Do some dancing while doing dishes.
12:00 - #10 Learn to squat better.
13:50 - #11 Push up from the feet. 
16:20 - #12 Use the lever action of the knife and your body weight. 
18:12 - #13 Light Bouncing on Heels from Bones for Life.
20:55 - #14 Towel Behind Back from Bones for Life.
23:25 - #15 Move to a lower surface when possible. 

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