Align your Spine, Improve your Neck | Bones for Life
Channel: Future Life Now
Date: 2020-03-01

Experience the bread and butter movements of Bones for Life with bouncing on heels with somatic ways to align your spine as well as freeing the thoracic spine for improved range of motion in the arm, shoulder and neck.

Visit https://www.futurelifenow-online.com/ybb-waitlist-2022/ for more details on the Bones for Life immersion and certification program and how it can be used to improve balance, aging, bone and joint health and so much more.

In this video, Cynthia Allen also discusses the research she and Carol Montgomery published on how Bones for Life can impact the senior population.

Cynthia Allen is a movement educator, Feldenkrais Practitioner, Sr. Trainer in Movement Intelligence and creator of Better Back program. Her on-line products and memberships are at futurelifenow-online.com.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Start.
0:10 - About Bones for Life.
1:06 - Do a little light double tap with your heels.
1:30 - Do a PUM vocalization.
1:45 - Put it all together by bouncing on the heels.
3:20 - Work with alignment by bringing your hands behind your neck and slide your little finger up to the base of the skull then slide the index finger to the bottom of the neck.
4:05 - Bring your other hand to your chest just to feel the breath.
5:25 - Bounce some heels together again.
5:45 - Bring your hands down and feel the difference. 
7:20 - Put your thumbs at your belly button, grab something in your belly and lightly coax it up.
8:45 - Do it again while bouncing on heels.
10:00 - The dominoes show effects by Ruthy Alon.
13:05 - Cynthia Allen  as principal researcher in Bones for Life research study.
16:57 - The feeling of biological optimism.
24:00 - Turn to look towards one direction on the other side.
24:25 - Pick a side of the arm that you would like to improve.
25:22 - Pick it in front of you and just reach it then look at the hand.
31:15 - Put your arm onto your lap, come up a little bit towards your mouth then maybe come up to breastbone height and the hand slides back down and off.
34:00 - Do it with the other arm.
37:10 - Begin to slide the arm up the midline and away from you
37:45 - Do it with the other arm.
41:20 - Take a little walk before sitting down again.

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