ERGONOMICS
Ergonomics and bringing positive movement into your workspace and routine.
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Top 3 Stretches to do at Work
Answering one of the most common questions Sarah gets asks. Targeting the areas that get tight with sustained work postures. Quick, doable and effective at reducing tension and the negative affect of prolonged sitting and/or standing.
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Top 3 Moves To Break Work Postures
Reduce whole body tension with these 3 exercises. Do during and after work. Use to break sedentary postures or repetitive movements to build resilience and capacity and let go of tension, stiffness and discomfort.
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Standing Posture
Set a standing posture from the ground up, optimise alignment and activate your scaffolding muscles throughout your body.
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Sitting Posture
Your best posture is your next posture so explore a variety of sitting postures you can choose and move through.
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Upper Body Alignment
Review positive alignment of the head, neck, shoulder girdle and torso. Add some simple movements to enhance further and use to enhance all vertical postures we spend most of our day.
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Sitting doesn't have to be sedentary - Concise
You can move in sitting. Explore how and where to move through the spine, hips, shoulders. Add some leg and arm stretches and breath work to make your body more resilient to sitting.
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Standing Core
A Pilates inspired standing sequence to move your lower back, activate your core, while staying tall, grounded and connected to your breath.
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Standing Pilates 1
Bring your Pilates movement up to standing to incorporate weight bearing exercise, build leg and core strength, balance control, falls preventions and functional movement. Do it anywhere, anytime.
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Standing Stretch
Let go of the idea you need to get on the floor to stretch. Sarah takes you through a full body stretch in standing you can do anywhere, anytime.
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Neck Trigger Point Releases
Aim to improve neck range of movement, release tension and ease discomfort with these trigger point releases of the neck
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Neck Stretches
Systematically work through stretches of the main muscles that get tight in the neck- traps, lev scap and scalenes. Use to ease tension and break sedentary sitting and standing
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Upper Back Reset
Loosen the inherently stiff upper back to positively influence the whole spine.
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Lumbar Let Go
A therapeutic sequence to release lower back and leg tension with a larger 10cm release ball connected with breath, imagery and mindful movement.
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Back In Motion
A simple standing sequence with the aim to release tension, improve mobility and create greater ease of movement through your lower back.
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Love Your Psoas Release
Psoas is a very influential muscle in your body. Learn more about its anaotmy and fuction and how to release it.
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Spinal Ease
A gentle flow to ease spinal tension and discomfort using posture pro and block.
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Spine Resilience - Short
Create spinal resilience to manage sustained postures and various movement and loads. Open up mobility, then control, then strength.
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Upper Body Trigger Point
Trigger point releases of the head, neck, pecs, shoulder and thoracic spine to then enhance awareness, stretches and move more freely in the upper body.
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Arm Stretch Sequence
Create length through the whole upper limb combined with some spinal mobility. Flexibility, mobility and length for the arms feels great on the whole upper body
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Shoulder Nutrition
Focusing on the shoulder by connecting the collar bone, shoulder blade, neck and upper torso through alignment, movement and then strength. Add capacity to overhead range and reach to expand your world from the waist up.
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Strong Snack Arms
Grab 25 mins snacks of strong. This one focuses on arms integrated with chest and shoulder opening with some background spinal alignment and core.
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Honing the Wrist and Hand
We ask a lot of our wrist and hand. Move through range, stretch, weight bearing, tendon sheath glides and self releases of the hand, wrist and forearm to tune up this area of the body.
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Strong Snack Legs
Grab 20 mins to focus on leg strength. We will be taking similar movements with different orientations to gravity to activate various leg muscles whilst consolidating the alignment of that movement throughout the class.
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Short Leg Stretch Sequence
Leg stretches with band. Open your hip to influence the spine and all leg joints. Bonus subtle arm and shoulder blade organisation and control. Goal is for pliability and elasticity in stretches vs tautness and pulling
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Happy Feet
Release tension, improve mobility and build strength in your feet to support better balance, stability and movement from the ground up. Happy feet, stronger foundations.
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Ergonomics - Stability & Mobility Routine
The combination of 3 essential components - mobility, stability AND strength- build pliability and capacity in your whole body - for life, work, sport and sleep.
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Ergonomics - Strength Routine
The combination of 3 essential components - mobility, stability AND strength- build pliability and capacity in your whole body - for life, work, sport and sleep.
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Wake Up Well
Start your day with less stiffness and tension using a mindful breath and movement flow you can do easily in bed.
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Afternoon Stretch
Stretch your way into the second half of your day. Pause to take a moment to reflect, breathe, ease and lengthen the areas that in all of us will tighten with daily postures and activities.
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After Work Flow
The time between finishing work and moving into evening routines is a great time to move. Reduce stiffness, tension, reset your breath, reconnect to you and let go of your workday.
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Breath facilitates movement, movement facilitates breath
A sequence to connect movement and breath and its symbiotic nature. Breathe to move and move to breathe. Observe your natural breath, move to open up the spine, ribs, thorax and its inherent connection with the pelvis and how each shape influences breath and breath influences each shape.
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Small Breath Holds
A 4 minute calming breath exercise designed to bring you into a more relaxed state, and can be easily slotted into your day.
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Reduced Volume Breathing
A more concentrated and targeted Buteyko exercise requiring breath awareness. With practice, this will assist the development of a functional, optimal, spontaneous breath pattern.
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360 Degree Breath
Use directional imagery to enhance thorax pliability and activate various muscles of breathing.
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Directional Breath 2
Delve into the various directions of breath - elongation, sideways, anterior and upper. Explore directions individually and then combined to add thorax flexibility and feel directional breath in your body.
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Prolonged Exhale Breathing Practice
A simple 3 minute breathing practice using a longer exhale to slow the breath and support the parasympathetic nervous system.
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Box Breathing
A simple technique to calm the nervous system, improve focus and regulate breathing.
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TOP 3 STRETCHES TO DO AT WORK
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TOP 3 MOVES TO BREAK WORK POSTURE
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HABITS TO BREAK PERSISTENT PAIN & MOVEMENT NUTRITION
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MiVision Article - Physical and Mental Wellbeing
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