Sentences with phrase «sternum forward»

Gently press your elbows in towards each other and reach the sternum forward.

Then think about sending your sternum forward as you extend through the upper spine.

Simultaneously push back through the heels to engage the quadriceps and bring the lower body to life, and reach your sternum forward, creating a straight, taut line of energy from the crown of your head through your feet.

You'll also risk missing the essence of the pose, which is this combination of skillfully moving your sternum forward while engaging your lower belly.

Let the shoulders melt away from the ears and extend your sternum forward.

Root through your big - toe mounds, press your heels back, and extend your sternum forward.

Let the heads of your thigh bones sink into the pull of gravity and push the top of your sternum forward and up.

Keep your spine long instead of rounded: Send your pubic bone back and your top sternum forward.

As you inhale lift up your chest and pull the sternum forward.

Not exact matches

Lift the top of the sternum and your head to look forward.?

Lift through the top of the sternum but avoid pushing the front ribs forward, which only hardens the lower back.

Coil the bottom of your back ribs in and up — but, as in Bhujangasana, protect your lower back by lifting from your upper sternum rather than pushing forward at your navel.

To arch your upper back more deeply, move your thoracic spine in toward your chest, strongly lifting your sternum and bringing it forward.

Extend your sternum away from your navel, and root down with your fingertips, shifting your weight forward.

Enhance the arch of your thoracic spine by expanding your chest, lifting your sternum, and pulling the side ribs forward and up.

As you maintain the concavity of your back and the forward lift of your sternum, walk your fingertips between your feet.

Lengthen your front body, reach your sternum and the crown of the head forward, and stretch your sitting bones straight back.

Do: Focus on lifting the sternum, or heart center, upward while engaging your core muscles and pressing your hips forward.

Without pushing your lower front ribs forward, lift the top of your sternum straight toward the ceiling.

To protect your low back, use pull your core in and up and try to avoid pushing the ribs forward as you bring you lift through your sternum.

Pull your sternum away from your navel to shift your energy forward.

Keep your head upright and look forward, chin near, but not jammed against, your sternum.

Throughout this practice you'll explore pulling your sternum (breastbone) forward and lengthening the front of your body, while simultaneously pushing the floor away to engage your belly and spread across your back body.

Maintaining this catlike spine, look slightly forward, and then start to pull your sternum away from your navel.

With your palms (or fingertips) push down and back against the floor, and lift the top of your sternum up (away from the floor) and forward.

Thereafter, push the thighs backwards and by lengthening the upper body forward, lift using the upper part of the sternum

Keep the underside of the body switched on and the sternum reaching forward.

Press the thighs back and lengthen the torso forward, lifting through the top of the sternum.