Back bend (chair)

Benefits:
Cues:
  • Find Mountain pose
  • Inhale your arms up overhead 
  • Exhale place palm of your hands with the heel of the hands at the top of the hips and finger tips pointed down
  • Inhale lengthen your spine
  • Exhale keeping the length in your spine bend backwards with the hips stable
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Anatomy

Lengthening:
Strengthening: