The baby can be seated on the mother's waist against
the inner shoulder as one arm is wrapped around the baby while the other arm is free.
Draw
the inner shoulder blades down the back to deepen the backbend in your upper spine.
Keep the outer body long and
the inner shoulders soft.
Move
your inner shoulder blades (the part of the scapulae nearer the spinal column) downward toward your kidneys.
But look at it this way: if you do rotator - cuff exercises, a few years down the road you will still be able to do heavy chest, back, shoulder and arm work, whereas those who did not strengthen
their inner shoulders will be using pansy - ass weights trying in vain to save whatever muscle they already built.
Press your palms and fingers down into the floor, and the edges of your index fingers and thumbs into the sides of the block to help you lift
your inner shoulders away from your elbows.
Throughout the entire pose, keep using the rhomboid muscles between your shoulder blades to draw
your inner shoulder blades deeper and deeper into your back.
Keep dropping your left sitting bone with every exhalation and begin to activate the muscles between your shoulder blades, so that you draw
your inner shoulder blades deeper into your back.
Keep
both inner shoulder blades pressing into your back.
Lift the tops of the shoulders slightly toward the ears and push
the inner shoulder blades away from the spine.