How To Do Cobra Pose Video

The Cobra Pose is a great way to stretch the back. Learn how to do the Cobra Pose in this yoga video lesson.

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Lie on abs
Bring chest off ground
Lift up & stretch spine
Breathe properly

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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. I'm Cindy Mastry and in this clip, Faith is going to help me demonstrate how to do the Cobra Pose. The Cobra Pose is a great pose to lengthen through your spine and open your chest. Many of the yoga poses have names of animals because the ancient yogis derived the poses by watching the animals and how they moved and how they kept their spines and their bodies healthy through the way they moved. So, Faith is going to come on lying to onto her abs. She's going to take her hands right underneath her shoulder and she's going to extend her toes long. Now, she's going to think about lengthening down through her toes. She's going to take an inhale in and think about lengthening out of the waist and bringing her chest forward and up. She's going to roll her shoulder blades back and looking sort of diagonally to the ground in front of here, trying to lengthen through the spine. It's important that you never have any low back compression. So if you're experiencing any pain in the spine, you want to think about taking your tailbone down toward your heels, pressing your pubic bone down into the earth to take any compression out of your low spine. She still lengthens, lengthens, lengthens. With every breath, she's lengthening forward, and then she's--with every exhalation--opening her chest up a little bit more, so just coming up just like a cobra. So go ahead and lower down. Inhale, lengthen and exhale, lifting yourself back up again. So remember, it's more about lengthening than how high up you get. You want to move with your breath and it's a great lengthener, strengthener for the spine and chest opener.

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