How To Do The Cat Cow Pose In Vinyasa Yoga Video

Vinyasa yoga combines the flow of yoga poses with breathing exercises. Learn how to do the Cat Cow Pose in Vinyasa yoga in this yoga video.

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Start in table top pose
Inhale & lift tail & head
Exhale & curve base of spine

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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. The cat-cow flow is a great way to demonstrate Vinyasa Flow Yoga because it moves from one position to the next, it is lengthening through your spine and massaging all the way up and down in the spine. So we start in tabletop, shoulders right over your wrist, you want to spread your fingers wide and make sure that you are pressing through the L of the finger so that we do not use too much pressure on the wrist. You also want to press into the finger pads. The knees are directly under the hips, hip width apart. You inhale, lift your tail, it ripples up the spine extending your heart forward and lifting your nose to the sky. As you exhale beginning with the tailbone, tailbone comes down, belly button comes in, let the head go, press the ground away and pull the belly into the spine, pull the sides of your body up to the sky. On the inhale starting with the tail making that saddle out of the spine, pulling your shoulders out of your ears to open through your heart and lift your nose to the sky. And then, as you exhale again, beginning with the tailbone drawing the belly button into the spine, sides of the waist up to the sky allowing the head to hang heavy. So the cat-cow pose is a really good way to stretch and lengthen through your spine and it can help with low back pain.

How to Do the Cat Cow Pose in Vinyasa Yoga Video

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