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Yoga med Susanne Bang Grange, Yogaterapeut og lærer

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16.10 -16.50 – For ældre, dig med skavanker og dig der er ikke kender så meget til yoga. Vi arbejder med hele kroppen for at opretholde og vedligeholde dens fysiske og fysiologiske funktioner.  

17.00 – 18.10 – Træning for den let eller øvede. Vi kommer igennem hele kroppen og lærer gradvist åndedrætsteknikker og afspænding. Undervisningen henvender sig til alle og er tilrettelagt efter årstiderne.

18.15 – 19.30 – Særlige arrangementer

Genskab og vedligehold – styrke, mobilitet, energi, glæde, viljestyrke og balance 

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How Chronic, Prolonged Sitting Impacts Your Body – and What to Do About It

I would like to have you read the scenario below and let me know if you would want this job.

The potentials are endless—overuse injury, chronic pain, depression, increased alcohol use, drug or medications use, cancer, increased general mortality.

Our bodies are designed for movement. Our brains are designed for processing and trying to create efficiency so that we can process more. Now that’s pretty smart, however, highly detrimental when it comes to the importance of movement. Because if we continue to listen to what our brain is telling many of us, then it will constantly suggest that we just continue to sit to conserve energy.

So what to do for those of us who have to sit regularly during the day?

  • Get up regularly, even if it means setting a timer at your desk to walk down the hall a couple of times. Not only good for the body, but also good for the brain.
  • Stand every time the phone rings in your office, even if it means you have to sit back down to do something at your computer for the call.
  • Every hour, independent of getting up for regular walks:
    – Sit at the front edge of the chair, hands resting on thighs and body in a relaxed position—not too slouched or sitting up too straight. Take a slow breath in through your nose, feeling your ribs expand circumferentially. Then slowly, fully exhale as if you are sighing out and exhale more than you typically would, without forcing or straining. Inhale on a 3-4 count, exhale on a 6-8 count, then pause for a couple of seconds. Re-inhale and repeat for 4-5 breaths.- Staying in this position at the front edge of the chair, reach one arm forward, alternating between sides, allowing your trunk and torso to rotate as well. Your hips and pelvis should also shift such that your thighs are alternately sliding forward and back. Perform 10 times on each side, slowly and deliberately and while taking slow, full breaths.
  • Consider using your chair differently, depending on the task:- When doing work on the computer, sit with the lowest part of your low back (i.e.sacrum) against the seat back, but don’t lean your upper body back. This will give the base of your spine some support, but also allow for good trunk muscle activity as well as proper thoracic circumferential breathing.- When doing general work such as going through papers, moving things around your desk, filing, etc., sit forward on your chair so that you are more at the edge of the chair. This will allow your legs to take more load and your trunk muscles better able to aid in support, reaching and rotating tasks.- When reading items or reviewing paperwork, recline back with full back contact to give your muscles, joints and discs a rest. Make sure to hold the items up at roughly shoulder height—even if you support your arms on armrests or desk.

Remember, chairs and sitting is something that WE as humans created and the current norm is in no way optimal. We were not put on this planet to sit on chairs, and in particular not ones which shut our system off and limit our movement and ability to breathe normally. Until organizations and the general mindset changes to balance work requirements, work efficiency and human health, then we will be constantly be dealing with companies such as DEAD, Inc.

I hope this article will help you to get up from your chair more often.