We tend to carry a lot of tension around the shoulder/neck area. Try these simple shoulder shrugs to help ease this. Breathe in gently but deeply through the nose as you float the shoulders towards your ears, and then breathe out through the mouth as you slowly release them all the way back down feeling the shoulders melt at the end of the release. Do this at least 5 times. The slow, deep breathing will help soothe the nervous system and the movement will help release muscular tension.

Author: Wendy
I fell in love with the controlled and focussed movement of Pilates as soon as I started it and before long my back pain and regular flare ups that meant I could barely move were a thing of the past. I wanted to share this with others and so trained and qualified as a Body Control Pilates teacher in 2004.