5-Min Fascia Release For Desk Workers

Feeling sore after sitting all day? This 5-minute fascia release helps counteract the effects of prolonged sitting by opening the chest, lengthening the back body, and restoring movement through your spine, shoulders, hips, and hamstrings. It's the perfect movement break to do every hour during your workday to improve posture, reduce tension, and leave your whole body feeling lighter and more energised. This practice requires a chair or desk to hold on to.

Transcript

Spread your feet apart wide. Wider than the width of a yoga mat. From me here. Place both hands on the back of the chair. Keeping the knees straight. And the spine straight. Hinge at the hips. Trying to create a 90 degree angle. And from here. . . You can shuffle the feet backwards. So that we get that clean 90 degree angle. And it's okay if you cannot go as low as me. Go to the position where you can feel that tension. So here you may feel it through the calves. Through the hips and hamstrings. Straighten out your arms. And you'll feel that stretch through the front of the shoulder. Breathe deeply into the diaphragm. And now relax your head down. And notice how that increases. The release. Through the mid-back and neck. Breathing deeply. And from here. . . Bend the left knee. Keeping the right knee straight. And then change, Bending the right knee, Straightening the left. Continue to walk it out. Through the legs. Feeling the fascia pull behind the knee. And breathe. Return to the center. And carefully roll your spine up. To a standing position. And give your body a little break. Shake out. The hands and feet. And we're going to move into that same position. Wide feet, 90 degree angle between the torso and the legs. And this time we're going to work through. The side fascia of the body. Move the hips to the right. Keeping the knees straight. Curving the spine to the right. And move the hips to the left. And continue shifting the hips from side to side. Feeling the stretch through the sides of the ribs and the front of the shoulders. And if you want an even deeper release, You can move your head to the side where the hips lie. So moving the head and hips to the right and the left. Never forcing anything. Always listening to your body. So it's the same concept going off of the logic board. And return to your center. Slowly stand up. And shake it out.