Thoracic Mobility: Part 1 — Making Space in the Rib Cage

This 90-minute workshop explores how the rib cage and thoracic spine move with breathing, flexion, side bending, and supported spinal movement. You’ll learn to feel anterior, lateral, and posterior rib expansion, use fuller exhalation to reduce unnecessary rib flare, and explore how breathing can create more space and mobility through the chest, ribs, and upper back. Using the mat, Spine Corrector, and Cadillac Trapeze Table, we’ll work with supported roll-downs and gentle mobility exercises designed to improve body awareness, spinal control, and ease of movement.

This workshop is appropriate for a wide range of experience levels and is especially useful for anyone who feels stiff or restricted through the chest, ribs, or thoracic spine.

Part 2 builds on these concepts with a greater focus on integrating thoracic movement with the rest of the body, larger movement patterns, rotation, extension, and strengthening. Thoracic Mobility Part 1 and Part 2 workshops can be taken in any order.