Sentences with phrase «lift of the rib cage»

Sometimes, when I try to ground my back foot, I lose the lift of the rib cage.

(The sweeping arc of the upper body that you see in backbends is another illusion; the whole upper back looks as if it's bending, but the lift of the rib cage is what catches your eye.)

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The transplant tool, called a Rochard retractor, hooks under the rib cage to lift it up like the hood of a car, providing surgeons unprecedented access to the organ.

Covering yourself up in swathes of fabric also makes it hard to check for good form, from seeing how well your rib cage is lifted during Pranayama, to how much you're really locking your knee in Standing Head to Knee.

Your next inhale brings you into a half lift with a long, straight spine; you may need to microbend slightly at the knees to get there; then exhale, plant your hands, and flow through your vinyasa, which is low plank, elbows grazing the sides of the rib cage, and inhaling upward - facing dog, moving your chest forward; then leading with the low belly pressing back to downward - facing dog.

Tone your lower abdomen, and lift the front of your rib cage up away from the floor so that it doesn't hang down like a hammock and compress your back.

From the side this would look like the bottom tip of the scapulae is lifted off the rib cage.

Lift and lengthen the sides of the rib cage and extend your left arm up.

So, in Virabhadrasana I, the grounding of the back leg can become a friendly invitation to the rib cage to lift; opening the chest can create space for the arms to reach.

Lift through the sides of the rib cage, the armpits, and the sternum as you look up toward the ceiling.

The expansion of the rib cage (without the inhalation) sucks the abdominal muscles and viscera up into the thorax and hollows the belly (some teachers say to actively but slowly lift abdominals, or navel, toward the spine).

Then lift your rib cage evenly away from your pelvis to stretch the circumference of your belly.

Thump the palms of your hands along the sides of your rib cage to encourage your chest to round, puff, and lift.