The Hip Raise Yoga Inversion Pose

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Leta Koontz, and I'm a Yoga teacher at Schoolhouse Yoga, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and I'm here today on behalf of Expert Village to show you, to demonstrate and to teach you some inversions. The next inversion we're going to practice, again our head is going to be a little lower than our heart and our hips, we're going to come onto our back, we're going to bring our hands alongside us, and we're going to draw our shoulder blades together. We're going to pull our navel towards our spine, and we're going to lift our hips up off the floor, we're going to keep our forehead and chin level with the floor so we're not tucking here and we're not lifting too much and you can stay here for a few breaths, or if you want you can interlace your fingers and start to walk your shoulders under, keep the hips lifted, again hold here for a few breaths, keep your breaths low -- again get a little comfortable with the blood moving into the head. When you're ready to come out of the pose release the hands and lower the hips back down to the floor."