Lengthen
the front of your spine, keep lifting your kidneys, and let your lungs open for five breaths.
But more importantly this pose strengthens the deep hip flexors that attach the inner thigh bones to
the front of the spine.
Your psoas is a hip flexor, and it begins on
the front of your spine, or super deep in your abdomen.
Ujjayi means «victoriously uprising» which refers to the upward movement of pranic energy through the central channel running along
the front of the spine known as the sushumna nadi.
To assist with the lift of the torso and legs, draw your inner groins up into the core of your torso, along
the front of the spine.
It attaches along
the front of the spine.
Psoas is a thick circular muscle that runs along
the front of the spine, attaching along lumbar vertebrae 1 - 5 and inserting into the top of the femur.