Centerline Bodywork

Session 1 works to open the rib cage and creating more room for the heart and lungs. This allows for more oxygen in the blood. We work to loosen the fascia that surrounds the rib cage, looking for areas that don’t move with breath. Try taking a breath into your rib cage, rather than your belly, does your rib cage expand. Look in a mirror and breath, do you see expansion? Try focusing on breathing into the front of your chest, take another breath but now focus on breathing into your sides, and take another breath and focus on your back and expanding your back with breath. Now try taking another breath…do you notice a difference from when you first started?

Session 1 also works on hips working to start to free the pelvis and from the leg. Also helping the pelvis to find better balance and not have a tilt. Most people have a tilt to their pelvis forcing the abdominal muscles to hold the visceral organs, if the pelvis is balanced it becomes a container to support the organs. Balancing the pelvis also creates more length in the lower back and works to reduce and eliminate tension and pain in the lower back. Try laying on the floor on your back with your knees bent and feet on the floor, notice the amount of space in your lower back. There should be some space because the lumbar vertebra curve in, but too much space often is an indication of a pelvic tilt.