[Felipe]

Hey Philip,

I just saw your 4-part character rigging tutorial, its awesome. Thank you...Im looking forward to the next part.
I have noted that you select 3 spine bones each time you want bend the body. I realized you could use a Follower modifier in spine 2 and 3 to follow rotate channels from spine 1, then you will have to select just one bone to animate the body making a cleaner animation.
Its just a thought.

[Kvaalen]

Something else you could do is add a follower to all the bones and control them with one null.
That way you can give it an item shape (you can't give one to bones).