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Do you ever feel tightness and tension in the neck and shoulders when sitting for extended periods of time?

Practice this Quick Desk Destressor for immediate relief.

Set Yourself Up

  • Sit tall at the front of your chair
  • Lengthen your spine, relax your shoulders
  • Feet flat on the floor; legs parallel

Breathe

  • Breathe — slow, rhythmic breathing — expand the chest with each inhale



Head and Neck

  • Drop chin to chest and slowly roll chin to right shoulder
  • Hold and BREATHE
  • Repeat other side
  • Sitting tall, lifting through crown of the head, slowly drop right ear to shoulder, press left shoulder down - BREATHE
  • Repeat other side
  • Feet flat on the floor; legs parallel

Breathe

  • Breathe — slow, rhythmic breathing — expand the chest with each inhale



Shoulders

  • Shrugs: lift shoulders, moving them up and back (rotation)
  • Lift one arm overhead, take hold of elbow; press elbow downward and reach hand down back
  • Hold and BREATHE
  • Repeat with other arm
  • Clasp hands behind back, pressing hands downward, lifting through chest and dropping shoulders
  • Hold and BREATHE


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