Shrug your left shoulder up toward your ear. Pull it back and down and then bring it forward and up to your ear again, making a circle at your shoulder. Reverse directions, keeping your elbow relaxed and heavy. Sense how much range of motion the collarbone has. Feel how it moves the shoulder blade around on the back.
Bring your left collarbone up and your right one down. Bring your left collarbone back and your right one forward. Bring the left one down and the right one up. Finish the circle by bringing the left one forward and the right one back. Keep this motion going for a few repetitions. There’s a lot of potential independence between the collarbones and the ribs. Remember to reverse the directions.
Circling the collarbones is an important part of developing humeroscapular rhythm. That’s the rhythm between the upper arm bone and the shoulder blade. The collarbone isn’t named in the rhythm, but the rhythm can’t take place without it.
Next we’ll look at how our torso responds when our collarbones move.