Are you someone who works in an office leaning into a computer screen all day? Or maybe your career has you traveling by car or plane regularly? You might even love to sit and binge-watch TV shows!

If you answered yes to any (or all) of the above, these stretches are for you!

When we sit, blood flow and circulation to our lower body is decreased. When we sit for extended periods of time day after day, it decreases even more.

This prolonged daily sitting also creates severe tightness in our hips, low back, quads, hamstrings, calves and feet.

But there IS help for you!

You may already know that standing every 20 minutes, if possible, is recommended by the medical community; taking a short walk is beneficial as well.

But taking a few minutes to stretch at your chair or plane seat is also beneficial to opening up tight muscle tissue and allowing blood flow to circulate!

So take a few minutes every hour or so to try out these stretches every day!

Seated Torso Twist

1. Sit up straight into the back of your seat, allowing your spine to lengthen.

2. Twist your upper body toward the back of your chair, letting your low back/lumbar spine release. This should feel so good!

3. Be sure to twist in each direction—left and right.

Seated Hip Opening Stretch

1. While sitting, cross an ankle over one knee.

2. Lean your upper body down toward you lap, opening up those tight hip muscles!

3. Repeat this stretch with your opposite ankle crossed over your knee to fully benefit.

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She Didn't Have to Quit Her Job + 2 More Stretching Success Stories

I’ve seen lives changed from Stretch Therapy.

My own life — and the lives of my students.

Here are a 3 success stories from my students:

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From Feet Pain to Relief: A Stretching Success Story

Most everyone that I work with, privately or in a group class, has a story about how they wound up seeking Stretch Therapy to relieve some form of pain in their body.

For some, stretching is a last resort effort to avoid surgery.

Some want to avoid injuries so they can stay active.

Some just want to feel good in their body all the time.

Some of my students have become so tight that they can hardly move — so they move less and less.

I always know my private student’s stories because we spend a lot of time together. I don’t always know the stories of the many students who attend my classes at my studio or at the local YMCA that I teach at.

A few weeks ago, at the end of my stretch class at the Y, a man approached me to ask me if he could tell me his story.

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4 Holiday Health Hints to Keep Your Body Happy

Holidays are here… and too often, in all the busyness, we can forget to take care of our bodies! Here are 4 easy ways to keep your body happy this holiday season.

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It Doesn't Come in a Bottle

This is a really hard question to ask, but…

Are you addicted to Ibuprofen?

If the answer is “yes,” then you are in good company because so many people are.

I have decided to write about it in hopes that this will give people hope that they can find alternative ways to deal with pain and feel better in their mind and body!

I have students that tell me that they have to take Ibuprofen before they work out in order to go through movements without pain.

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Could it be magic?

Could “it” be magic? I can’t seem to get this question out of my head. You see, I have a new private student who is an avid golfer. She loves it and seems to be a bit competitive with her fellow golfers.

At our first session, I told her that stretching would improve her golf game.

She looked a me with skepticism, but said “well, if you think so, I hope so, I’ll give it a try.”

She has been stretching with me for 4 weeks now. Yesterday, she casually mentioned to me that she had her best golf game ever the day before.

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Hydrate... and then hydrate some more!

Hydration is essential to life!

Think about it…

Every human, every animal, every plant, every tree, every blade of grass needs water to survive. If it doesn’t get enough, it shrivels, dries up, and dies.

What does hydration have to do with stretching, you ask?

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Where It is, It Ain’t: How the Point of Pain is Never the Source of Pain

“The point of pain is usually never the source.”

On my first journey to California searching for stretching guidance, research, and knowledge, my stretch workshop instructor said this to us as he began his session.

“That is crazy,” I thought.

So, if your back hurts, it’s not your back?

How could that be?

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Feet: The Foundation Of Our Body

26 bones.

33 joints.

19 muscles.

100s of ligaments & tendons.

… are in each foot!

There are more of these in the foot than any other part of our body… and we put them in shoes all day!

In the “stretching world,” shoes are considered “coffins for your feet.”

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Healing Your Body from the Inside: How My Stretch Student Avoided Foot Surgery

A student approached me this week with an incredible transformation story.

She told me she had suffered for years with foot pain.

She has had many visits to her podiatrist who only offers surgery as an option for treatment. She was determined not to have surgery, so she sought a different route.

One of those routes was Stretch Therapy. She has been attending my class for about 6 months now.

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Stretch While You Sit: 2 Assisted Stretches for Your Lower Back & Hips

This prolonged daily sitting also creates severe tightness in our hips, low back, quads, hamstrings, calves and feet.

But taking a few minutes to stretch at your chair or plane seat is also beneficial to opening up tight muscle tissue and allowing blood flow to circulate!

Seated Torso Twist

Seated Hip Opening Stretch

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