Benefits:

For your body:

• Strengthens your lumbar facia
• Centers your whole body
• Encourages whole-body engagement

For your mind:

• Strengthens your focus while still being
• Mentally connects you to slow down your body movements
• It gives you focus on your spine and how to center yourself more.

For your spirit:

• It gives you the confidence to overcome fear.
• It will pass
• You are stronger than you think right now, and this will show you how to grow.

(DISCLAIMER: DO THESE POSES TO YOUR ABILITY; YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN BODY AND WHAT YOU DO. BE SAFE, AND YOU CAN BE SUCCESSFUL.)

Modifications:

• Put your back on a wall.
• Place a chair behind you to squat down on.
• Reach your arms in front of you for a counterbalance.

Pose Description:

1. Start in a 5-pointed star position.
2. Bring your palms together.
3. Stretch your spine and engage your abdominal muscles.
4. Toes out to place your feet at 45 degrees.
5. Bend your knees.
6. Bring your prayer hands to your heart.
7. Sway side to side until stillness.
8. Maintain a flat back position.
9. Root your soles down here. (It should feel like you are falling backward.)
10. Relax your eyes and engage throughout your body.
11. Go as low as your thighs become level to the ground below you.
12. Breath here.

Relax, Rest, and Practice Again. You Can Do This! You Are A Yogi!