The shoulder blades don’t get enough attention. Even in mobility, most of it surrounds the ball and socket joint of the shoulder, and not all the movement these can make.
A lot of my practice in this began in doing muscle control; as control of the blades is one of the trickier, but fascinating, areas to work with.
Before getting to circles, the box is a bit easier.
- Squeeze your shoulder blades together and shrug the shoulders upwards.
- Keeping your shoulders squeezed together, un-shrug the shoulders, dropping them down a low as you can.
- Now, keeping them low, spread the shoulder blades out, as if trying to make your lats look as big as possible. It’s fine if the shoulders round forward a bit during this.
- Keeping them out, shrug the shoulders upwards.
Keep working to extend the range of motion a bit in these. Then you can make it flow a bit more by going from boxes to circles. Try it one shoulder blade at a time, and also moving them in opposite directions.
This is just one example of what I came up with while working on Intuitive Mobility.
