Stretching the fingers and hands awakens and stimulates the muscles and nerves in the forearms--a body part which is often overlooked—and re-establishes a connection between our digits and their point of attachment to the axial skeleton via the shoulder girdle. Through gentle stretching, we are also stimulating laminar blood flow, a vital component of cardiovascular health.

Early in our development, we are brain, heart and spine. As the fetus develops, the arms encircle the heart (which shrinks in size) and then cross to close in external rotation. Meanwhile the legs begin open in external rotation and then fold in to 90 degress of internal rotation.