Stand Up, Move Your Body & Open Your Heart For Better Health Mentally & Physically Working daily in Fitness, Health and Wellness I see many people and when I see someone walk into a room or my studio with shoulders rounded and a spine looking hunched, I can’t help but see someone who needs to work on their posture. But I also see someone who might be stressed in a job, who possibly sits at a computer for long hours, someone who does not feel particularly confident and positive about themselves and could also be suffering with mental health issues such as depression.
Changing work life balance by moving your body more and correcting posture will give you more energy, less stress and better productivity. Without good posture, you are not able to be physically fit and this flows over to not being able to be mentally as fit either.
Good posture means your bones are aligned, your muscles, joints and ligaments can work as they are meant to work and your vital organs are in the right I have a mantra for my dance/cardio based classes position. where I say “Lift Your Hearts and Your Heart Rates” and this class is a joyous happy class where Normal functioning of the nervous system and we dance and move and feel the beat of our hearts, overall health is improved because the longlift our arms and celebrate happiness. term effects of poor posture can affect digestion, elimination, breathing, muscles, joints and ligaments When we round our shoulders, it is also an and a person who has poor posture may often be indication that we are protecting our heart from tired, unable to think clearly, work efficiently or hurt or sadness and when our hearts are closed we even move properly. are less likely to be happy. The good news is that almost everyone can avoid Research shows that there is a connection with the problems associated with bad posture and you physical posture and mental health and sadly due can make improvements at any age. Below are some to many people’s work-life of sitting for hours, it YogaPilates Fusion® exercises to increase your makes it physically impossible to have good posture, postural and mental awareness. These will take which is why standing desks and moving between around 10 minutes and can be repeated as often as desks, spine twists (see below) and other exercises, you need to. You will find that your mental clarity plus simply standing to sitting and vice versa is as well as your posture will improve and you will recommended. also be a fitter, stronger person. 12
