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Benefits:

  • Firms muscles of the abdomen, upper arms, hips and thighs
  • Increases spinal strength and flexibility
  • Improves flexibility and tone of spinal muscles
  • Helps relieve and prevent lower backache
  • Helps cure or relieve lumbago, rheumatism, arthritis and menstrual problems
  • Helps correct bad posture
  • May improve function of liver and spleen
  • Strengthens deltoids, trapezius and triceps
  • May relieve cervical spondylosis

Tips:

  • Energize your arms and legs before lifting up off the ground – not just at the moment you ‘start’ your pose

Check that you:

  • Lift your arms up from your ‘T’ position as you lift your chest. Your arms will look as if they are going into a ‘V’ formation. But don’t do anything but lift your arms vertically. The curve in your spine will do the rest