How to Do a Forward Spine Pilates Stretch

Video Transcript

"I'm going to be teaching you the execution and the flow of the "Spine Stretch Forward". This a great exercise for spinal articulation, abdominal strength and to really get the feeling of that oppositional flow of energy in your body. So, bringing your arms forward, reaching your arms straight out from your shoulders. Again, anchoring the legs down into the floor, firmly flexing those feet. We're going to inhale. Pinch, lift and and grow. So lift up tall, lift the ribs up off your hips. Exhale, curl you chin to your chest, your nose to your navel. And the forehead for the space between your knees, reaching those arms forward, right at your ears. The important part of this is to lengthen out through the hands, lengthen out through the feet, lengthen out through the head, but pull back through the belly. Inhale. Stack up against the wall, and exhale. Curl your chin to your chest. All that air out. Reaching those arms long, and legs long. And the belly back. Inhale, stack one bone at a time, up, reaching that chest off your thighs. And exhale curls your chin to your chest, your nose to your navel and round forward, reaching those arms long. Neck is long. Head yearns, hands yearn, and feet yearn. Belly pulls back. Inhale, stack up. Bring the chest up off your thighs, shoulders down your back and relax. It?s a tougher exercise than it looks like, but that?s the "Spine Stretch Forward"."