We are doing a check in on your alignment today to see if you notice anything sticky within your body or anything different from one side or the other.
This is just a check in of your body and should provide you with insight into how your body feels through different movements.
If you notice tension in an area, please reach out to me at courtney@formfitnaples.com or by joining our Form Fit Mom Community over on FB so that I can help provide you with tips to help ease the tension, stress, and pain you may be feeling in your body.
It is our movements of the week, where I'm providing you with a quick snack type movement that you can pretty much do anywhere throughout your day this week is in regards to helping moms get unstuck. So today, I wanted to take a moment and just have you feel your body in a sense of where you are. And if you have any sticky spots within yourself. So you can do this standing preferably just because you're able to move a little bit more. But if you're in your car, you can either kind of go along with me now with this or come back and listen to it later. But basically, what I want to have you do is I just want you to feel what your feet feel like. Hopefully, they're not crammed into tight shoes, hopefully they're able to spread out toes, we'll be able to spread out as much as possible, and feel what they feel like. And you can even move them wiggle your toes, move the arch of your foot thinking of doing more like a heel pump, to see what your foot feels like, do you feel any tension within your feet? Do you notice that maybe one side feels different than the other side. And just be aware of that. And then you can just think about releasing and easing the muscles, relaxing them. And then we're going to move up through to the ankles, and you might want to circle them in a circle one direction, and then a circle the other direction. Do you notice any tension or tightness on either one? And then just relax into it. Same thing with the knees, whether you're seated or standing, you can do a little knee bend and straighten and knee bend and straighten. And do you notice anything? When you bend either knee? Does anything feel different within either one? And if you do notice something feeling different? Where do you feel it coming from? Is it coming up higher near the hip? Do you feel the sensation pulling from the hip? Or do you feel the sensation occurring down through the lower leg and then we move up towards the hips? And here you can circle your hips, circle your pelvis around in a circle, and then circle it the other way? And do you notice any sticky points. So where we usually have problems, pain, tension, stress, it is where we're not moving into a movement. So if you go into a post here, anterior pelvic tilt, you don't know what that is maybe tilting your pelvis forward and then tilting it backwards like a bucket if you think of your pelvis like a bucket, and you're going to push your asis forward, those are your hip bones forward. And then you want to talk thinking tuck the tailbone under. And do you notice any tension or stickiness within that movement pattern? Do you notice that you're able to maybe go into one position better than the other. That would be where there are some stickiness. It's okay to be in a position for a period of time. It's when you get stuck in one position over the other that it becomes not a problem. But where it usually will start to create some tension, tightness and then usually some pain. So we just want to work on creating movement through all of our parts. Again, moving up into the ribs, you can go side to side with your rib cage. See if you can separate the pelvis from the ribs. Many of us get a little stuck where it's difficult to move into positions because of the linea Alba, the fascia that runs from the rib cage to the pelvis, it gets tight and it requires the ribs and the pelvis to move together. So we want to work on trying to separate that as much as possible. You may notice if you go side to side, one sides tighter than the other, if you do be aware of it. Another thing, once we start working into the back, I like to take my thumb and just kind of massage with my thumb, and see if I can release that tension spot that you may notice. Same thing as we move up through the shoulders, you can roll your shoulders back. And you can lift those shoulders up towards the ears, and then relax them down. And then lift them up towards the ears and relax them down. And you can love one and then the other end, do you notice anything in regards to that movement, does anything feel tight, anything feel different from one side to the next. And then the last thing is moving up to the head and we take slow circle. So you would drop your chin down towards your chest. And then you're going to take a nice, slow circle one direction. And then you're going to come back the other way, and go nice, slow, circle the other direction. And you can put your head down, chin down towards your chest, and then left, lift your chin up towards the sky. And again, paying attention does that create tension, tightness in the neck? Do you have a lot of crackles going on, which would allow you to know that there's probably some tension going on. That's what we're doing is just being aware of our body and our movement, and how everything is working together in in conjunction with one another. Now in a perfect world, we'd be able to feel the same on both the right and the left with every movement that we do, we would notice that they felt the same. But because of the way we move in society, maybe some things that you may do for yourself, you may have some spots that are stickier than others. And if you do, I would encourage you to reach out to me, you can either email me at Courtney, co URTNEY at form CIT, s o r m fit naples.com. I will leave this information in the show notes. You can either email me or you can join our Facebook community form fit Mom, where I can help you if you notice anything. I love to be able to provide people videos, this is my passion, thinking about mom posture, and alignment and how we can ease those aches and pains in our everyday life. So if you have questions, please reach out to me. If you want to reach out to me, like I said on Facebook, go over there and I'm here to help answer any questions you may have. And I hope you all have a wonderful day and I hope you feel a little bit better now that you're more aware where