How To Do The Cat Pose Video

Stretch the spine with the Cat Pose. Learn how to do the Cat Pose in this yoga video clip.

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Get into table top position
Round back
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. My name is Cindy Mastry, and in this clip Faith is going to help me demonstrate the cat pose. So I'm going to ask Faith to come on over and onto her hands and knees into tabletop. Now, cat is a stabilizing pose. This is a very stabilizing position for your body, and the cat pose is going to work your spine and at the same time massage the kidneys and the adrenals. So, we're going to place our hands, right underneath the shoulders, fingers spread wide. It's also going to work the arms and the wrist. You want to make sure not to put too much pressure in the wrist. The knees are right under the hips about hip-width distance apart. Good. You're going to inhale in and on the exhale, Faith is going to tilt her tailbone down, begin to draw her navel into her spine and begin to round through the spine. So the whole energy lined up the back of the body is open. She's going to drop her head down and totally relax her neck. Good. On the inhale, she's going to come right back up to table position. Good. Inhale in and then now she exhales, beginning with the tailbone, tucking the tailbone under, drawing the bellybutton in, opening up the inner channels all the way up the spine, relaxing her head and neck, and then exhaling, coming back down. So that's cat pose, a stabilizing pose. That's a wonderful stretch for your spines. It feels really good. Remember to honor you body and use your breath.

How to Do the Cat Pose Video

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