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Push yourself back into a child’s pose
(kneeling, backside resting on heels,
From your side, roll up just enough to come onto your torso folded down over the thighs) with
belly. Then with hands under your forehead, tuck the arms out to the side. With your fingers on
toes of one foot under to engage and lift that leg, then the floor, palms gathering in and out to
release and do repeat the motion from side to side, activate the hands, move in any way that
letting the hips rock. explores in the shoulders, spine,
neck and head.

Come back onto your belly. Draw up the right leg and come onto the elbows; lift the
left arm to bring it into the same position as in child’s pose, so the freedom in that
arm now can push up from gravity and move into any twisting, lifting or spiraling
movement that feels good through the front of the left side of the body and the lower
back. Move to the other side.

Come onto all fours and move freely into your hips
and shoulders. Then lift your right hand to the
front of the left shoulder while you lift the left
knee off the ground. Place them back and move to
the other side. Move side to side, lifting the knee
enough to feel engagement into the belly
without a pull on the lower back.

From there, step one leg forward into a lunge. With
hands on either side of your feet, move forward
and back to ‘walk’ on the front foot and create
pliability in the ankle—crucial for all freedom of
movement further up the body.

Still on that side, lift into a lunge where
you take the arms open and out with
an inhale, forward and curled in
with the exhale, moving the whole
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body as naturally occurs within your
The Body Keeps the Score comfortable range. Repeat steps 13 and
by Bessel van der Kolk 14 on the other side.
Embodied Relating by
Nick Totton
Yoga, Fascia and
Anatomy by Joanne
Avison

Yoga of the Subtle Body
by Tias Little Walk your hands toward your knees, tucking your toes under
to rock back and forth on your toes and loosen deep into your
Cranial Intelligence by
Ged Sumner and Steven feet. From here, you can start to move yourself back toward a
Haines squat if possible, then walking your hands back to all
fours and child’s pose. Move back and forth before
Emotional Anatomy by
Stanley Keleman either resting or further movement.

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