Mountain Squat Pose for Prenatal Yoga

Video Transcript

"The mountain squat breath flow is a nice way to think about the breath flow of the spine. We're going to have Emily here showing it. I'm going to have you stand sideways so they can see your nice straight spine. Again, your feet are going to be about hip width apart, toes slightly turned in, strong wonderful thighs, and slightly tuck that tailbone letting the shoulders relax back down away from the ear. Literally, someone is looking at you from your side, they'll see you stack literally one part of the body onto the next. Now, bring in your hands. We are going to working with the breath here, so really think about your breath. Take a nice deep inhale. As you exhale, start to slowly bend the knee shooting the arms straight forward. Notice how her shoulders are staying over the hips. Beautiful. Inhale standing up nice and tall, bringing the hands to heart center. Exhale and straighten out those arms, bending the knees, keep that spine nice and straight, inhaling nice and tall. One more time. Exhale, release that breath. Shoot the arms out. Perfect. Inhaling all the way up."