How To Do The Fish Posture Video

Open your heart, chest and throat with the Fish Posture. Learn how to do the Fish Posture in this yoga video clip.

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Open chest
Lift hips
Extend legs
Press in toward forearms
Drop down head

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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 Fish Posture. The Fish Posture opens your heart, opens your lungs, works your thymus gland, the thyroid, and the parathyroid. So I'm going to have Faith come lay on her back. Good. She's just going to lift up her hips and tucks her hands underneath the small of her back there. Good. And she's going to extend out through her legs. She's going to inhale in and lift her chest, rolls her shoulders back down and under, and press in to her forearms. Good. Now, if it's okay for your neck--and for some people it may not be okay for your neck--so you extend your head straight out looking up to the sky. But if it's okay for your neck, you're going to let your head drop down and just very, very, very light pressure on the top of the head and you can see how this is opening up her heart, opening up the thyroid, opening up the thymus. Good. Now if you'd like, you can release the hands down next to your side and take the pressure out of your forearms, but you have to be able to keep lifting through your chest and not placing any weight on your head. Thank you, Faith. So the Fish Pose is a chest opener. It works your heart and lungs, opens the thyroid gland, the thymus and the parathyroid. Remember to use your breath and honor your body.

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