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Benefits:
- Firms muscles of the abdomen, upper arms, hips and thighs
- Increases spinal strength and flexibility
- Improves flexibility and tone of spinal muscles
- Helps relieve and prevent lower backache
- Helps cure or relieve lumbago, rheumatism, arthritis and menstrual problems
- Helps correct bad posture
- May improve function of liver and spleen
- Strengthens deltoids, trapezius and triceps
- May relieve cervical spondylosis
Tips:
- Energize your arms and legs before lifting up off the ground – not just at the moment you ‘start’ your pose
Check that you:
- Lift your arms up from your ‘T’ position as you lift your chest. Your arms will look as if they are going into a ‘V’ formation. But don’t do anything but lift your arms vertically. The curve in your spine will do the rest