Camel Yoga Pose

Video Transcript

"Alright, let's continue on, let's work on opening the chest and shoulders again. So remove your block, take your hands forward and lay on to your blanket, bringing the pelvis and the thighs down. Bring the tops of the feet down. Here again gives you an opportunity to stretch out the tops of the feet, pointing the toes back, make sure that your heels are facing the ceiling. You take the arms to your sides and again roll the shoulders back like we just did. As you roll the shoulders back, press the hands into the floor and lift the chest up. I'll show you that one more time, so as you roll your shoulders back, bring the shoulder blades into the body, press the tops of the feet into your mat, and lift the chest up, lift the collar bones up, keeping the arms close to the body. This is pose called Camel Pose. Okay. So here, we're also going to use the strap. Have your strap ready, place it behind you, we'll take the same arm position as we did earlier, rolling the shoulders back, now bring the straps back towards your heels, lift up. That's a little more strenuous using the muscles of the abdomen, using the muscles of the lower back,"