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Benefits:

  • Helps awaken and limber up the skeletal and muscular systems
  • Opens shoulder joints
  • Good for frozen shoulder
  • Reduces or eliminates pain in the lower back
  • Stretches the muscles in the torso
  • Trims and tones the abdomen
  • Improves and strengthens muscles in the central part of the body
  • Increases flexibility and strength of core, gluteal, deltoid and trapezius muscles
  • Increases flexibility of the spine
  • Tones the spinal nerves and abdominal organs improving the working of the bowels
  • Helps with sciatic problems
  • Alleviates anxiety and reduces mental stress
  • Movement encourages massage of many organs including colon, pancreas, kidneys
  • Improves respiratory tone and function
  • Firms and trims waistline, hips, abdomen, arms, buttocks and thighs

Tips:

  • Lift your chin parallel to the floor
  • Lift your breastbone so your chest stays open and breathing is easier
  • Relaxed neck and shoulders is far more important than straight locked out arms

Check that you:

  • Keep your shoulders away from your ears … always!