Leg Mudra Pose for Prenatal Yoga

Video Transcript

"The wide-leg mudra is a wonderful way to open up through the chest, stretch the shoulders out, and it also can help you with heartburn if you have that problem through your pregnancy. So I am going to have you come back in the wide leg. Take a nice wide gate. Make sure your feet are at least as wide as your wrists if you are extending the arms out to the sides. Now coming into mudra: bring your hands behind you. Intertwine those fingers and really strong mudra. Feel those shoulder blades come together. Notice how she gets a nice wonderful chest expansion here. Now she's going to be coming into a forward fold. Take a good wonderful deep inhale all the way to the belly. Exhale and release it to your forward fold keeping that mudra nice and strong. Relax your head as soon as you get there. Now make sure you are holding no tension in your neck. Kind of give a shake of your head, 'Yes.' Shake your head, ?No.? Say, 'No I am holding no tension in my neck.' Perfect. And just release. Just relax. Forward folds are a wonderful thing you can do for your back and also stretching the hamstrings here. Now to come out of it, use that mudra. Use your arms to help you. As you inhale, use those arms to help you all the way up. As you exhale, release your mudra gently."