5-Minute Fitness: Neck and Shoulder Soother

Relax, stretch, and strengthen your neck, shoulders, and spine with this gentle yoga move that pairs breath and body movement.

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Cat-Cow Pose

1 Start in a tabletop position with wrists below shoulders and legs hip-width apart.

2 Inhale deeply.

3 Exhale slowly, rounding spine toward the ceiling and tucking chin toward your chest “like a cat.” Hold.

4 Inhale deeply, dropping belly toward the floor and lifting head up toward the sky “like a cow.”

Repeat Steps 2 through 4 for eight full breaths. Perform daily.

Too hard? Do this pose while seated on the floor or in a chair. Just rest hands on your knees, tucking chin to chest to do Cat Pose, then lift head and chest to do Cow Pose.

 

This article appears in the March/April 2023 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. Subscribe to the magazine for more art, inspiring stories, fiction, humor, and features from our archives.

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