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Workout 4 — The Chest Block
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The thoracic block — chest and rib cage. The segment that holds emotional openness. This is a 17-minute somatic dance-movement session from Ilana Sukhorukova's Body Awakening program, rooted in Wilhelm Reich's seven-segment theory of body-held emotional tension. The work of this session is to bring...
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In this lesson you will learn:
- The thoracic (chest) block is the fourth segment — the front of the rib cage where emotional openness gets armored
- Work starts with gentle self-massage of the chest area, then moves to breath-led dance movement
- No equipment — Ilana is intentional about keeping the workouts simple enough to do anywhere