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Benefits:
- Improves overall body strength and enhances core strength
- Opens pelvis
- Strengthens and tones leg muscles
- Enhances back strength
- Said to relieve menstrual cramping
- Aligns skeletal system
- Good for arthritis conditions
- Good for digestion
- Relieves joint pain
- Relieves sciatica
- Improves flexibility in ankles and toes
- Massages abdominal organs including liver, intestines, and pancreas
Tips:
- Part 1: Lift your toes
- Part 2: Lift your torso to vertical in preference to coming down too low
- Part 3: Lift your pelvic floor and squeeze knees
Check that you:
- Engage your core at every opportunity
- Part 3: Never settle, keep your legs active, try to hover above your heels without sitting