| OK, since you are here looking for 'stretches for | | | | I literally felt my body relax and just cry out 'YES'! It |
| fibromyalgia', you must already believe that stretching is | | | | was awesome. I so wish that I had known about this |
| helpful in fibromyalgia, which is wonderful, because | | | | my whole life - that this was something taught in |
| usually I have to *convince* people that stretching will | | | | school or in church or SOMEWHERE. |
| help them. | | | | This stretch is so healing. There was a point in my |
| In my experience, restorative, yoga-like stretches are | | | | recovery where I did this stretch for an hour every |
| the most helpful in fibromyalgia. These will access the | | | | day. I would wake up early so I could get into it. |
| muscles, the fascia, the tendons and the ligaments and | | | | I think it is so helpful because it stretches out the psoas |
| help you get the most healing out of every stretch. | | | | muscles, which in my experience have a hand in painful |
| Which are my favorite stretches? I'll tell you, and I'd | | | | menstruation, candida, fibromyalgia, and lower back |
| love to hear about your favorites or the ones that | | | | pain. |
| work the best for you also. | | | | So, how do you do it? Get a bolster or a big bunch or |
| My favorite stretch of all time is called supported child's | | | | pillows in front of you on carpeted floor or a mat. |
| pose. It's from yoga, and I discovered it after watching | | | | Kneel down, open your knees a bit, pull your pillows in |
| a yoga therapy dvd. I got into it for the first time in | | | | between your knees, and then fold over them and |
| about year 3 of my fibromyalgia recovery, and my | | | | relax fully. Keep scanning your body and telling any |
| body just went 'ahhhhhhhhhh'. | | | | tense parts to let go. |