The Green Room

 When I get on the Ellen show I am going to take her through the green room! AH HA you want to know don't cha? Well good, because I'm going to let you in on a little secret , the GREEN ROOM is the best place to go if you are one of those people who have a hard time bending your spine. Upper or lower or middle for that matter you don't bend there. Well you do but it takes work, trust me.

Cathy Grant a student and protege' of Joseph Pilates, Grant taught the Pilates method for more than fifty years. She as I understand it was a teacher of magnitude that was so enraptured by the rhythm of her students in her classes she could make a dozen people change their body with one image, so she didn't have to talk as much, smart lady. Grant quite smartly came up with the "green room" and if your not familiar with the proper term it is a place where dancers or performers go to prep for the open curtain call. In Grant's "green room" it is the stuck or weak spot in your body, mostly we refer to it while doing roll downs, rolling like a ball, or any exercises really, that can create spinal flexion.  Try it now!!  My teacher for a whole hour pretty much, had me do this working through my three green rooms, yeah there are three rooms in my spine 3,5, and 7. So how about you get down on the floor in this position

 okay great so your here, now take a few deep breaths inhaling letting the ribs fill lifting the cage off 

your waistline, exhale keep the ribs lifted pull the organs in and up "scoop" allowing for space for the 

spine to bend and decompress. Thinking about your tailbone being one and the crown of the head 

being ten start slowly rolling down to your mat. Keep your head in the roll ...when you come to a tight 

spot that doesn't feel like bending stop . roll back up from there. continue again, slowly working down 

and back up stopping at each "green room". When you finish you will feel like gumby and on your 

way to a healthier, flexible spine, like me!

on a side note, Super Excited to go see my friend Auras show tomorrow night check it out here!!

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 yay AURA!