Benefits:

For your body:

• Strengthens your shoulders
• Encourages joint health in your wrists and elbows
• Intensifies your isometric transverse abdominal engagement

For your mind:

• It will give your mind the confidence to try just a little bit longer
• Increases your focus on the breath allowing thoughts to minimize there distracting effect
• Gives your mind focus on your body and its center that maintains the spines erectness

For your spirit:

• It can burn a fire of determination in your spirit that you can do it
• It tempts your spirit to reflect on itself because of the instant strain it puts on you physically
• Teaches you that you have everything that you need already within you

(Your body is your own so be sure to do these poses the certain way your body needs to do them, not the way my body does them in the pictures.)

Modifications:

• Lower your knees to the floor.
• Put a block between your forearms.
• Continuously encourage yourself to breathe consistently and to maintain an engaged core to stabilize your back.

Pose Description:

1. Start in a push-up position.
2. Lower your forearms to the floor in a number “11” were your hands were.
3. Suction your palms down to the mat.
4. Hug your navel to your spine.
5. Press your heels back and evenly plant your feet ball mounds.
6. Gaze down and relax your eyes.
7. Breathe here for a few cycles.