How To Do The Locust Pose Video

The Locust Pose strengthens the spine and chest. Learn how to do the Locust Pose in this yoga video.

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Back strengthener
Place hands under thighs
Palms up
Lift chin, chest & legs
Press tailbone towards heels

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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 be demonstrating the locust pose. The locust is a back strengthener and it's going to open the frontline of the body. So she's going to come lay right down on the mat and she's going to place her hands underneath her thighs with the palms up, and we place the palms there so that there's never too much compression in the lower spine. Good. She's going to inhale in, feel a lengthening through the spine, and as she exhales, she's going to lift her chin, lift her legs, roll her shoulders back, lift her chest. She's going to engage her thighs. Now, I wanted to think about lengthening long and finding the length in the spine rather than lifting up too high. This is what's most important. We want to protect the spine. So if you have any low back compression, press your tailbone down towards your heels, press your pubic bone down, and the hands underneath the hips in this manner makes it so you will not hurt your lower spine. So this is the locust pose. It's a spine strengthener and lengthener. You want to make sure that there is no compression in the lower spine. So you remember to draw your belly button into your spine and press your tailbone down.

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