How To Do The Bound Half Lord Of The Fishes Yoga Pose Video

In yoga, trying a bound half lord of the fishes pose includes clasping the hands together behind the back. Learn a new yoga pose in this video yoga lesson.

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Start in seated spinal twist
Shoulder in front of knee
Lengthen through spine
Move abdominals toward back

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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. My name is Cindy Mastry and in this clip, I'm going to demonstrate the bound lord of the fishes pose. So the bound pose is a twist and so twists offer you a chance to see everything in a new perspective. You're twisting your abdominals, massaging your abdominal organs, twisting excess fluids out of the spine. So I'm going to come in to the seated spinal twist. So you bring one knee over, you want to pressure your big toe mound down on the ground and you want to make sure you can square and press both sits bones right down into the earth. If not, you need to be able to take your leg out forward and pull your toes back to your face for proper alignment to the spine. But if you can bring your heel back, you bring your heel back towards your hip. Inhaling, reaching the arm up to the sky just for length, and as we exhale, first bringing the elbow to the outside of the knee, rotating away towards the knee. So with each inhale you lengthen through the spine, with each exhale you come in to a rotation, using your breath to help you come into the twist. To come into the bind, you must bring your upper arm bone and your shoulder way in front of your knee, and then you bend your elbow underneath, taking your palm back wrapping the other arm around. Inhale, lengthen, and exhale, rotating, trying to lengthen through the spine, find a little bit more length. And with each exhale, moving your abdominals towards the back, just a little bit more, always using your breath. Inhaling in and then exhale, unbinding, and unwinding. So, lord of the fishes pose with a bind, remember to honor your body. Never go the bind unless you're ready to bind, breathe center and ground, always move with the breath.

How to Do the Bound Half Lord of the Fishes Yoga Pose Video

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