How To Do Chest Stretches In Hatha Yoga Video

Stretching muscles can do a wonders for increasing your flexibility. Learn how to stretch your chest muscles with Hatha yoga in this video.

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Sit in comfortable position
Hands on shins
Inhale & lift chest forward
Exhale & round shoulders

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Cindy Mastry has practiced yoga since the age of eight, and also has a background in Jazz and Ballet. Active in the fitness industry for nearly twenty years, she teaches aerobics, kickboxing, and yoga at many fitness centers in the Tampa Bay area. Cindy trained with 84 year-old Master Yogi Monk, Baba Hari Dass at the Mt. Madonna Center in California and owns/operates "Yoga Etc Studio" in St. Petersburg, Florida. Cindy teaches yoga to people of all ages and experience levels and at very competitive rates.

CINDY MASTRY: Namaste. When we talk about chest stretches in hatha yoga, what we are really talking about is opening the heart. Back bending postures are going to open your heart. So, I'm just going to show you a simple chest opener. You are going to find a comfortable seated position. You are going to bring your hands to your shins, link them to your spine, always moving with the breath. As you inhale, you lift your chest forward and right through your shoulders. As you exhale, drawing the belly button in and around them. Inhaling, pulling your shoulder blades together and back as you expand through your heart. And then as you exhale, rounding through the spine, pressing your shoulder blades away from each other. Inhaling to lift, and exhaling to round. So, not only is this opening up the front door to the heart, but this opens up the back to the door to the heart, as well. There are many different chest exercises. This is just an example of one way to stretch and open your heart.

How to Do Chest Stretches in Hatha Yoga Video

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