Suboccipital Muscle Stretch

📍 📍 Suboccipital muscles can get very tight from one when we’re working out of the desk. Not only are they causing headaches

but they also alter your vestibular system

which is correlated to

your posture

your balance

and also even your eye movements. So I’m going to show you three different ways on how you could actually release that.

First is say you’re working at a desk. We’re going to start with a stretch. I want you to sit up nice and tall. You’re going to take one hand. You’re going to force your chin like you’re creating a double chin. And like your skull and your spine is getting taller. So I’m going to go ahead and perform that.

Now what I want you to do when you have that position is you’re going to side bend just the skull and head

and hold for a couple of seconds and you can switch to the other side.

You should feel a stretch right here in the back of the skull. You could also add a bit of rotation. Once again

chin tuck. Skull gets nice and elongated and tall.

And doing light rotations.

Go ahead and give that a try.