Hips + Shoulders
Grounding Practices
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21-Oct-2025
Do you ever think about how your shoulders are the hips of your upper body and your hips are the shoulders of your lower body?
That’s exactly the kind of weird thing I think about – very often when one is tight, so is the other so in my own practice, I tend to address them together.
This is one of those practices that seamlessly flows from hips to shoulders and shoulders to hips to liberate what’s stiff or stuck!
You might like to have a block or a blanket or beach towel for this practice.
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