How To Do The Plow Pose Video

Stretch the shoulders and spine with the Plow Pose. Learn how to do the Plow Pose in this yoga video.

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Lie on back
Lift feet & legs into air overhead
Touch toes to floor above head
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 be demonstrating the plow pose. The plow pose is an inversion and in this inversion, you're going to reverse the flow of gravity flushing your heart with new blood and totally rejuvenating your nervous system. So Faith, if you want to come on your back? Good. And she's just going to extend her legs up to the sky, hinging at the hips. You're going to inhale in, and keep trying to lift, so she lifts her hips right up out to the sky. That chin is tucked in to the thyroid gland, simulating the thyroid. She's just going to breathe here. Now, if you'd like for low back support, you can take your hands to your lower spine or if that works for you; if that doesn't work for you, you could extend your hands out and interlace your fingers, but then it maybe that your feet don't go all the way to the ground, that's okay too. So she's just supplying her blood flow, new fresh blood to her heart, reversing the flow of gravity and then releasing her hands and slowly rolling down, allowing herself to come down gently. This is the plow pose. You want to honor your body and only take it to as far as works for you. Use your breath and see if you can't bring some inner piece into your heart.

How to Do the Plow Pose Video

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