Have you ever had such an experience?
After laying out the yoga mat, you begin to move from the cat pose to the downward dog pose, and the child’s pose in the end. You try your best to stretch seriously, feeling the stretch of every part of your body, trickling down the cheeks sweat. Along with the teachers' instructions, you might believe that your shoulders and neck are eventually relaxing.
However, when you get up to sit back in front of your computer, a familiar stiffness has returned. It feels like a wet cotton ball stuffed in your joint. When you want to rotate your shoulders and neck, there is always a slight sense of stiffness which can not be ignored.
So, in order to truly alleviate the stiffness in our shoulders and neck, what can we do ?
What we can do its not a more complex pose, nor a higher-intensity movement. It maybe hid in a set of simple and dynamic movements. Perhaps we can draw upon the power of the Indian Swing Club!
Don’t underestimate this pair of sticks! The design of the Indian clubs itself can perfectly improve our shoulders’ and neck’s stiff condition (If you use it in a proper way.) Its weight core is far from the handle, when you swing it, the Indian stick club generates a unique force that can help ease our muscle tension.
You must relax your wrists and move along with the clubs’ inertia, so that the weight of your body and the weight of the clubs become one. After a few groups of simple swinging movement, when you put the clubs down, you'll be surprised-your shoulders feel lighter! Not that empty feeling after stretching, but a kind of grounded lightness.
So next time you roll out your yoga mat or feel tightness in your shoulders after a long-day working, stop and think - maybe what you really need isn't another stretch. But this pair of Indian Stick Swing Club and some groups of simple poses.