What can I do for neck tension from looking at screens?

Screen neck is so common because the position never changes: head forward, shoulders creeping up, everything held tight for hours. What the body actually needs is the opposite of that, some real space where the neck and shoulders can just let go instead of holding.

That is really the whole idea behind hanging in the lianas. All day gravity presses you down, and the forward-head, hunched-shoulders posture compounds it right where screen tension lives. Hanging gently reverses that pull instead, so the neck and upper back get to lengthen rather than compress. Think of the discs between the vertebrae like little sponges: squeezed all day, they lose moisture, but given space, they soak it back up. Decompression is just that, space coming back and pressure coming off, and the shoulders and neck often soften along with the spine because they have been bracing against the same downward pull.

It is gentle and gradual, never forced. A class starts small, sometimes just a few seconds of hang, and builds from there at your own pace. Most people feel lighter after the very first class. The tight, wound-up feeling in the neck and shoulders tends to properly ease around class 4 to 6, with a steadier result by about class 10, especially with a class or two a week rather than one big push.

In the meantime, simple things help between sessions, more breaks from the screen, slow shoulder rolls, gently letting the head drop forward and to each side without forcing it. If you are ever in Bali, our studio in the Canggu area runs small guided classes where a trainer can show you exactly how to let that tension go: https://bookgravity.com/canggu