Featured Sequence: Opening Tight Shoulders
by Baxter As a follow-up to my post on Friday last week about tight shoulders (see Friday Q&A: Tight Shoulders ), and with the stellar prelude that Nina provided you with yesterday (see Living Proof ), I am excited to share with you a sequence of shoulder opening poses. You may notice that some of the poses presented today resemble but are not necessarily formal yoga asanas or poses. In modern yoga practice, teachers and home practitioners have found that there are many �warm-up� poses that are a great way to get the body ready for the more formal yoga poses that might require quite a bit of openness or strength in a particular area of the body. In this sequence, you will be able to address limits to movement in the shoulder joint in several directions. For those with tight shoulders, we recommend that you do the poses for 60-90 seconds in order to set the stage for more permanent changes in mobility. I am going to let the pictures do most of the talking (thanks again to Erin Collo...