Sit with your spine straight, but relaxed. Take support against a wall if needed, but make sure you don’t feel restricted in any which way. Take your index finger and run it below your clavicle. Stop as you hit the shoulder and put down your middle finger here. Begin massaging in circles. There is no stipulated number of rounds or minutes you are required to complete. Simply try and get in tune with your body – chances are you will know when to stop. Repeat this exercise on the other side. Fiore, who was taught this movement by a Somatic therapist, explains how you are likely to feel tight and painful in these spots if your body has been strongly holding on to sadness and grief – if tears come up (more likely than you’d think), let them. She also clarifies that the right clavicle and shoulder help release sadness and grief from masculine wounds, while the left clavicle and shoulder do the same for feminine wounds.
