How to Do the Locust Yoga Pose: Backbending Technique to Stretch your Back

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Leta Koontz. I'm a yoga instructor at Schoolhouse Yoga located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, I'm speaking to you on behalf of Expert Village. First we're going to come into locust pose. We're going to come onto our belly and we're going to bring the back of our hand and keep our toes together and we're going to start with our chin on the floor. We're going to pull in our navel in towards our spine, keep your belly pulled into your spine and tuck your tailbone down. Start to lift your big toes off the floor, start to press up the back of hands on the floor, draw your should blades together, glaze down, look at the tip of your nose. Hold here for a few breaths, engage in contracting the muscles in the back, keeping the belly pulled in and when you're ready to come out of the pose just go ahead and lower back down to the floor."