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Seated Neck Release

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At a glance

Equipment
None — chair or mat
Suggested hold
Hold 5–8 breaths

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Common mistakes

  • You round the whole upper back into a slump so it becomes a posture collapse, not a neck stretch.

  • You let the shoulders creep up toward the ears as the head drops.

  • You lift the head back up quickly instead of floating it up slowly.

What to focus on

  • Keep the chest lifted and let only the head hinge forward — the isolation is what targets the back of the neck.

  • Send each exhale into the base of the skull and feel the stretch spread down between the shoulder blades.

  • Soften the jaw, tongue, and face; tension there keeps the neck guarded.

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Bow Pose (Dhanurasana)

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Bridge Pose (Setu Bandha Sarvangasana)

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Sources & further reading

  1. 1.Conventional static neck-muscle stretching yields significant pain relief and range-of-motion gains in chronic neck pain — Clinics (2008), randomized clinical trial
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