How To Do Back Bending Asanas Video

Back bending asanas help rehabilitate our spines and torsos from all the leaning and sitting that we do. Learn how to do back bending asanas in this fitness video.

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Invigorate the body
Lengthen spine
Open the chest
Use many postures

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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. Back bending postures are used in yoga to invigorate, open your chest, open your body, and lengthen the spine. There's many different back bending postures, but it's something we don't do normally. Normally in our everyday function of life, we're not back bending. We're hunched over a computer, we're doing this as we're driving, we got everything grounded forward, and that's why it's so important to open your spine and open yourself up with a back bend. Faith, if you'd like to demonstrate just opening up with a backbend for us. We spent so much time rolled forward that we need to open our chest and open our heart. The reason we have a lot of back pain is because we're hunched forward. So one of the main things to do for yoga is to lengthen, lengthen, lengthen your spine; we're always talking about lengthening your spine. And I've even had students tell me that once they start lengthening their spine, that their doctor actually told them they grew a quarter inch. Did they grow a quarter inch? Probably not, but what they did do is stop standing hunched over, pulling up and lengthening through spine, opening up their chest, opening their heart. So since we never normally do a backbend, that's why it's so important for us to do backbends in yoga. They're energetic, they're invigorating, they open your spine, and help with back pain.

How to Do Back Bending Asanas Video

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