YouTube: Why Your Upper Back Feels Stuck (It’s Not Just Your Shoulders)

💗 Your Shoulders Need More Than Stretching 💗

A Different Approach to Upper Back Tension

If your shoulders are constantly creeping toward your ears, your upper back feels tight and cranky, or you find yourself rolling your shoulders every five minutes hoping something will finally loosen up, you’re not alone.

Upper back and shoulder tension is incredibly common, especially as we move through midlife. And while stretching can feel wonderful, here’s something worth considering: your shoulders may need more than another stretch. They need movement, control, and strength.

In this practice, we’re taking a slightly different approach to releasing upper back and shoulder tension. Instead of focusing only on stretching the muscles that feel tight, we’re going to work with the shoulder blades themselves.

We’ll explore a few intentional movements that you may not typically find in a traditional yoga class: lifting and lowering the shoulder blades, moving them toward and away from the spine, and becoming more aware of how they move across your back.

Then we’ll build on that awareness with some simple strengthening work for the muscles that support and stabilize the shoulder blades.

Why? Because those muscles play an important role in how your shoulders move and function. And when we’re trying to improve mobility and address that familiar feeling of tightness, strengthening deserves a place in the conversation, too.

This isn’t about forcing a stretch or doing more just for the sake of doing more. It’s about giving your shoulders a little more of what they actually need.

So roll out your mat, get comfortable, and let’s give those shoulders a new way to move.

💚 Laura

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