3 Easy Ways to Keep Movement in Your Body Everyday

Step 1: Take A Deep Breath

Breathing is so automatic that sometimes it gets lost in the shuffle of everyday activity. But breath is the foundation for every other movement in your body. Start your day with conscious breath to get things rolling. Build this healthy habit by setting a reminder along with your alarm.

 

 

Try This: 

  • Breathe in through your nose for 5 counts

  • Breathe out through your mouth for 5 counts

  • Repeat 3-5 times

  • Go about your day

 
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Step 2: Circle Your Hips

Sitting and stagnant positions are commonplace for us all. If you've been in one position for 30-60 minutes, get up and move those buns! By mobilizing your lower back and hip sockets, you'll ungunk a major pathway for movement, blood and lymph-flow, and skeletal-muscular alignment.

Try This:

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  • Stand with your legs wide and feet pointed straight ahead (parallel to each other)

  • Roll your pelvis is a wide circle to the left (4-5 times) and to the right (4-5 times)

  • Go slow and try to smooth out the edges of your circle

  • Do you feel any rough patches that you iron out?

  • Shake your booty and thank it for the fun

Roll Your Eyeballs

Your eyes are surrounded by muscles just like the rest of you. To all you screen-viewers out there (and that's all of us, amiright?!) set your eyeballs free a few times a day. You can bring that reminder again and take breaks every 30-60 minutes.

 

Try This: 

  • Place your palms on top of your closed eyelids

  • Take 3 rounds of breath to let the darkness settle over your sight

  • Let your hands drop but keep your eyes closed

  • Circle 4 times in each direction

  • Just like your hips, smooth out the edges of your circle

  • Do you eyes circle simultaneously, or does one move faster than the other?

  • Let your eyes come to stillness and take 2 more breaths

  • Flicker your eyes open to gradually allow light back in

  • Relax your eyeballs and smile - aren't they great?

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