Welcome to This Edition of RiversZen Today for Friday, February 22nd, 2019

The news of the day: During class today we spent some time reconnecting with dolphin plank . . . certainly one of my favorite poses and a huge way to improve your core strength. The key to dolphin is identifying your weakest link and working toward strengthening that part of your body. It’s most likely that in any given class there will be students with bad shoulders, hips, legs, ankles, wrists or any number of compromised body parts. As you set yourself up for plank feel free to utilize bolsters, chairs, balls, the wall or any other prop to help you provide support for your weakest link. As you strengthen that part of your pose, you will be able to activate more tissue into a more comfortable plank. For example, if you feel a great deal of stress, pain or restriction through your shoulders, put a bolster the long way under your torso. As you rise up into the pose, breathe and come back down. As opposed to holding the pose in the up position, go up and down. You are going to activate your muscles to learn the proper form while they are in a supported posture. Over time you will feel the improved strength. Improving your core strength will allow you to realize improved posture and you will feel the strength throughout your body. I will post a video within the next week demonstrating more of the concept I briefly referenced above . . . I will let you know when it is available. Do you have issues with dolphin plank? If you do, I would love to hear from you.

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Here are our classes for Friday at both RiversZen studios:

Astoria
8:00 Easy Morning Stretch with Dave Stevens
11:00 Pound, Move and Stretch with Dave Stevens

Ilwaco
10:30 Gentle Stretch with Pam Hickey

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