You know, don’t you, that the most important thing you can do if you are getting very little exercise is to stretch out on the floor, lying on your back and hugging your knees to your chest? Then you just rest. You know that, right? It’s important because there are days when all of us don’t move enough. Better yet is if, while you’re down there, you let your knees flop together on one side of your body (allowing your face and arms to flop to the opposite side). I woke up this morning feeling stiff from writing. I did this for ten minutes, and I rose feeling clearer and in a better mood.

There’s a picture of this pose on “Yoga Journal” magazine’s website. They call it the “revolved abdomen pose,” and it’s pictured at the top of the page.