If you sit for more than a few hours each day, as many are likely to do at work, you may come home feeling stiff, sore, sluggish or listless. These feelings are often related to poor circulation, something that a recently released Dahn Yoga video addresses in less than two minutes.
The clip, which is the latest in Dahn Yoga and Health Center's 2 Minute Tips instructional series, explains how to use a technique known as body tapping to improve the blood's circulation and to redistribute energy around the body.
The video's instructor explains a basic Whole Body Tapping routine, which he says can be completed every day in five minutes.
To implement the exercise, you start by using the fingertips to gently tap the head, face and neck, followed by using the palms to tap the chest, torso and arms. This easy routine gets one's blood flowing freely, releasing energy pent up by hours of inertia.
Such exercises may be important for health and well-being, since a recent study in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise found that the more an individual sits daily, the greater their risk of death, no matter how much aerobic exercise they get.
