You do not need a new personality at 5:45 a.m. You need your hips to forgive yesterday’s school pickup posture.
Rules
- Stay in pajamas.
- No app that lectures you.
- If a child wakes early, the stretch ends, that is not failure.
The sequence (about ten minutes)
- Cat-cow on hands and knees, eight slow breaths.
- Child’s poseforehead down, arms long or by sides.
- Figure-four on your backone side, then the other.
- Hamstring reach seated or standing, gentle, not heroic.
- Neck rolls and shoulder shrugs while the coffee finishes.
Floor space next to the bed is enough. A yoga mat is nice if you already own one; a towel is fine.
What this is not
It is not HIIT. It is not “earning” breakfast. It is a small claim on your body before the house starts asking for things.
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