What is causing your neck and shoulder pain?
Your neck pain actually begins in the muscles deep in the core of your body – the muscles that attach to your sacrum.
Your neck hurts because the muscles of your core are extremely tight, and are pulling on the bones of your spine at the base of your body which also attach all the way along your spine from your sacrum to your neck and the base of your skull.
When the bones of your neck pulled out of alignment, they are compressed and they lean on one another in painful ways. The compression can cause the discs between your bones to bulge or leak, or it can cause tension headaches, problems with your eyes, and sinus problems.
To achieve natural muscle pain relief, you must re-align the bones of your spine, starting at your core – because that is where they are biggest and strongest.
It won’t help just to do exercises for your neck because the strong end of the muscles are in your core. The stronger, larger end of the muscle will continue to torque the smaller end.
To re-align the bones of your neck, you have to release the muscle tension that creates the mis-alignment. And that starts in your core.
Bones align according to the way your muscles pull on them.
Right now your muscles have muscle memory of strong tension that pulls your bones into painful positions – all the way from your core to your neck and the base of your skull.
You can create new muscle memory -- teach your muscles how to work without causing your bones to be pulled into painful positions.
When you release the tension in your core, where your neck pain starts, then your bones return to their natural position of pain-free alignment.
When you learn how to keep that core tension from coming back, you avoid future neck pain.
This is the equation:
Core muscle tension release in the muscles that attach to your neck = neck bones in alignment = no neck pain.
How do you release your core tension and give your muscles new muscle memory so that your bones align and keep you out of pain?
With yoga for pain relief, specifically, Contemplative Practice Yoga® therapy and classes.
Contemplative Practice Yoga® therapy and classes teach you how to release the core tension that is causing your neck and shoulder pain.
Once you are out of pain you learn how to keep yourself pain-free.
We teach you how to heal yourself and achieve natural muscle pain relief.
We do this through practices that gently and steadily release core tension in the muscles that attach to your neck so that the release is sustainable. There are no quick movements, no pushing, forcing, straining, or exhausting you.
Contact Kim for a free 20-minute consultation with Kim Orr to discuss therapy and/or classes for your back pain.