The Neck Bone’s Connected to the…Shoulder Blades?

On days that I get to lounge around the house, I like to flop upside-down over the arm of my couch and watch my legs float in the air. If I let them hover long enough, they come to rest in a bone-balancing-on-bone position and my muscles don’t have to work at all to hold my legs in the air.

Lately I’ve been looking for that same sensation in the way I hold my head on top of my spine. Especially when I’m concentrating on a task, I tend to jut my head forward, which makes the muscles in my neck work overtime to support my 10-pound noggin. Over time, that hurts.

In my search for balance, I found a particularly insightful article by Richard Rosen. He says that the root of the neck is between the lower tips of the shoulder blades. When I imagine holding my head from that point, I catch glimpses of the sensation I find so easily in my lower body when I’m upside-down on my couch. My head floats and an icy-hot feeling spreads up the back of my neck and the top part of my breastbone. That’s the sensation I get when a new area of my body wakes up.

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   On September 22nd, 2009 at 5:58 pm Leah M Said:

   too true about the head. i’ve been thinking more and more about where/how to hold my head, not just in yoga asanas, but even more so when walking.

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