Fascia Neck Release - Amazing Ear Wiggle with Justine Shelton, Certified Yoga Therapist

Prepare to be amazed. I've added a little bit to the fascia release for the neck and what I want to do is have the aha moment. So we're going to look both ways and just check our range of motion. You're going to sit up tall, look over your right shoulder, mark a point that's kind of as far as you can comfortably see. Then look forward, look over the other side, and then look forward and prepare to be amazed. Okay, what we're going to do is grab both of our ears, massage the cartilage, to massage around the cartilage, and then tug it around. And you might even hear that gets one end of the fascial chain. Now we're going to take the fingers on one hand, hold on to the thumb, you're going to wiggle that around and do that with each finger in turn. Thanks for humoring me because I know it seems a little crazy, but it works. And when you're ready, do the fingers on the other hand. And because the fascia is constantly shortening, you get the aha moment every time doing this. So it's not something you can really over, well, I guess you can overdo anything, but... Okay, now here's the part I added. What we're going to do is let one wrist hang limp, and you're going to take the other hand, grab the forearm, and then pull like you're pulling the skin towards the elbow. From there, lift the hand up, open it back, open the fingers wide, and extend the wrist. What we're doing is pulling on the fascial sleeve, and then relax that. Let the other wrist hang loose, grab the forearm, slide the skin towards the elbow, then you're going to extend the wrist, open the hand wide. Okay, relax that, wait for it. Sit up tall, look over your right shoulder. Yeah, can you see farther? Try the other side. Yay! So that is a great party trick. It freaks people out every time. Okay, and if you do any one section, it will work. It's just, I like to go for, you know, biggest bang for the buck.