Shoulder Exercise: Improve Chest Expansion and Relieve Lower Back Issues

Use your shoulders & Hips to Relieve Prolapse & Infertility:
This simple exercise involving moving your hips & shoulders up & down creates an expansion-contraction cycle in your upper trunk that can help relieve prolapse & some types of infertility by massaging & lifting your internal organs. It can also relieve many types of lower back pain, & improve digestion and immunity. This movement pattern be practiced as a gentle moving meditation, that builds energy while keeping you relaxed. This also improves HRV (heart rate variability). When I do this practice, my polar HRV monitor shows my heart rate to vary from 75 bpm at the highest point (shoulders elevated and hips extended) to 45 bpm at the lowest point (shoulders depressed and hips flexed).
Your psoas muscles (at the front of your hips) connect to your diaphragm & your lower back. So when you lift your hips into extension it will pull your diaphragm down. This reduces intra-thoracic pressure & pulls energy (in the form of internal organs, blood & usually some air) away from your lower trunk towards your upper trunk.
Similarly shoulder blades connect to your chest. So when you lift your shoulders, it will expand your chest without needing to inhibit your diaphragm & induce stress. This reduces intra-thoracic pressure & pulls energy (in the form of internal organs, blood & usually some air) away from your lower trunk towards your upper trunk. This effectively creates a gentle effective expansive Uddiyana Bandha.
This practice is an easy way to achieve the same effects as Basti Kriya and Nauli Kriya.
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