Welcome back! This week we’re focusing on hip mobility.

If you’ve been spending a lot of time sitting either at your desk or on the couch, then this series will be great for you! Today we work through a range of both stretches and mobility exercises to increase the range of motion available at your hips. This will help with overall movement of your pelvis, but can also help with low back stiffness.

Let us know how you go, let’s get moving!

Welcome back to our Move With Us series! This week is focusing on headaches.

At Collective Motion we help a lot of clients suffering headaches, especially tension related headaches. There are lots of factors that can contribute to headaches and today’s series is going to help alleviate some of the tension and tightness through our neck and shoulders that can often lead to or aggravate headaches.

Let’s get moving.

Welcome back to our Move With Us series! This week’s focus is on shoulder mobility. With posture and the amount of time we spend sitting at desks and on our phones, our shoulder mobility can be largely impacted. Today’s Move With Us includes some stretches to release commonly tight muscles that impede movement, as well as some great mobility based exercises to increase your range of motion.

Lets’ get moving!

Welcome back to another Move With Us! This week we’re focusing on our glutes.

Our gluteal muscles are very important in the function and stability of our bodies but are also the laziest muscle group. It is common to have underactive or weakened glutes which can contribute to low back pain, pelvic pain as well as overloading your knees or ankles during exercise. Overall, good glute strength is crucial to healthy movement!

Today is about activation and strengthening and is suitable for all levels. Come move with us and see how strong your glutes are!

Welcome back! This week we’re focusing on hip mobility.

If you’ve been spending a lot of time sitting either at your desk or on the couch, then this series will be great for you! Today we work through a range of both stretches and mobility exercises to increase the range of motion available at your hips. This will help with overall movement of your pelvis, but can also help with low back stiffness.

Let us know how you go, let’s get moving!

Welcome back to our Move With Us series! Today we’re going to be doing a series that targets knee pain.

This series is great for anyone experiencing any knee pain that isnt related to a specfic injury. Knee pain in the absence of an injury is quite often due to tight muscles around the knee adding extra stress to the joint. Today’s stretches target the major muscle groups that attach around the knee joint and contribute to knee pain. We will show you modfications to try if you are limited by your knee range of pain.

Come join us on your mat or floor and let’s get moving.

Welcome back to our Move With Us series! Today’s focus is on the neck.

A lot of our clients are struggling at the moment with neck stiffness and tightness, a combination of the stressors of working from home and the stress of living in our current environment. Today’s sequence is a combination of stretching and strengthening exercises because we find that a lot of neck tightness is actually as a result of underactive or weakened muscles through the neck and upper back.

If you’re struggling from any neck tension or just want to help improve your postural strength then join us and let’s get moving!

Welcome back to our Move With Us series! This week we’re going through a routine you can do in the morning to help with any aches or pains.

A lot of us find that first thing in the morning we’re feeling quite stiff and immobile. This routine starts lying down and ends with us standing up ready to start the day! If you have any morning stiffness then give this routine a go to help get you moving in the morning.

Start your day with us and let’s get moving!

Welcome back to our Move With Us series! Today is all about digestion.

These stretches help with indigestion, bloating and can help relieve the symptoms of IBS by stimulating the digestive system. A combination of deep breathing, massage and twisting helps to improve gut function and stimulate the muscles and organs involved in digestion.

If you’re suffering from any of the above or are having any digestive discomfort then try these exercises and see how you feel.

Today’s Move With Us takes us through a great warm up to do before you go for a run. Quite often we neglect warming up and forget how important it is to activate our muscles and mobilise our bodies before we exercise.

This 5 minute warm up targets the major muscle groups that we need to fire to run at our best, as well as mobilising through our back and hips so that we’re free to move!

Try to incorporate this warm up before your next run and see how you feel! And don’t forget to have a look at our previous Move With Us through an after run stretch for afterwards too.

Welcome back to our Move With Us series! Today we’re going to be doing a series that targets our lower backs.

This series is perfect for anyone experiencing any low back pain, tightness or stiffness. Today’s stretches target some of the major muscle groups that contribute to lower back stiffness and can spasm with low back pain. We finish with some nice lower back mobility to help get things moving again!

Come join us on your mat or floor and let’s get moving.

Welcome back to our Move With Us series! In honour of Women’s Health Week this week, today we’re going to go through some beginner activation and strength exercises for our pelvic floor.

As Osteopaths and Pilates instructors, we see lots of women of all ages with pelvic floor issues. Our pelvic floor is so important but is so often either lacking strength and endurance or simply struggling with activation. Weak or inactive pelvic floors can contribute to tension or overloading other areas of our body to compensate, for example tight low backs or overactive hip flexors.

Have a go at today’s exercises and see where you’re at. If you’d like any help with activation or would like progressions to push yourself further, please reach out! We’d be happy to help.

Welcome back to our Move With Us series! Today we’re going to be doing an lower body release using a spikey ball.

Spikey balls are great for muscle and myofascial release and can help target those hard to stretch areas. Today’s video works through the muscles of the lower body and would be great to relieve tension from time spent sitting or to help tired muscles from lots of running and walking.

Grab your spikey ball and let’s move!

Welcome back to our Move With Us series! There’s a lot of stress around at the moment and most of us are feeling the load of everything going on. This week we wanted to give you guys a series that you can use to relax and destress.

You can use this to start your day off well, through out the day to take a break or at the end of the day to unwind and switch your mind off. Whatever time of the day you chose to join us, lets take 5 minutes to refresh and reset our bodies and our minds.

Welcome back to our Move With Us series! We’re grabbing those foam rollers again but this time focusing on our lower bodies.

Our leg muscles are often quite neglected when it comes to stretching and cool downs after exercise, despite doing a lot of the heavy lifting when we work out. We target the major muscle groups in this video to achieve a global release through the lower body. This series is great for anyone after exercise or even to relieve tension from sitting down at your desk all day.

Foam rollers are a great tool to help with stretching, mobility and muscle release but we know so many foam rollers just sit in the corner unused! We’re using a 45cm foam roller, but a 30cm roller will work perfectly too. So grab your rollers and Move With Us!

Welcome back to our Move With Us series! This week we’re focusing on pregnancy.

During pregnancy our bodies undergo a lot of changes that cause increased load and tension through different areas. This week we’re focusing on some of the main areas that are affected, increasing mobility and working to relieve some soreness and stiffness.

These stretches are suitable for all pregnancy stages but also great for anyone wanting to increase their mobility!

Take a seat on the floor or your mat and let’s get started..

Welcome back to our Move With Us series! Today we’re going to be doing an upper body release using a spikey ball.

Spikey balls are great for muscle and myofascial release and can help target those hard to stretch areas. Today’s video works through the muscles of the upper body and would be great for anyone feeling tense through their upper back or those wanting to release muscles after a workout.

Grab your spikey ball and let’s move!

Welcome back to another installment in our Move With Us series. This week we’re doing a series of exercises that are really great to do after a run (or walk)

We know that stretching isn’t always what we feel like doing after we work out, so we’ve made a quick 5 minute series for you to follow along with and help to stop neglecting our cool down. This video targets our hips, back and muscles of the legs to get an all over after run stretch.

Thank your body after your run and come Move With Us!

Welcome back to our Move With Us series. Today we’re going to be working through a lower body cool down.

This series is really great to do after any form of exercise, from running to walking or after a session at the gym. However, today’s Move With Us doesn’t have to be done only after exercise! Our leg muscles are working all day long and can often get neglected, so this week we wanted to focus on our big muscle groups of the lower body.

Grab your mat or take a seat on the floor and let’s get started..

Welcome back to our Move With Us series. This week we’re back to upper body mobility but we’re going to be using a foam roller. This series will be beneficial for everyone! We spend so much of our day flexed (bent forward) or slouching through the upper body, so in this five minute video we will work into extension and rotation, as well as flexion, to counteract that hunchback posture.

Foam rollers are a great tool to help with stretching, mobility and muscle release but we know so many foam rollers just sit in the corner unused! We’re using a 45cm foam roller, but a 30cm roller will work perfectly too.

So grab your rollers and Move With Us to help improve your upper body movement and release that mid and upper back tension.