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Summary: Learn how to do the bridge yoga pose and learn how to correctly position your body for increased strength and flexibility as well as circulation, in this free exercise video from a professional yoga teacher.

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Cindy Mastry Cindy Mastry has practiced yoga since the age of eight, and also has a background in Jazz and Ballet. Active in the fitness industry for nearly twenty years, ... read more

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How to Do Bridge Yoga Pose

CINDY MASTRY: Setu bhandasana or bridge pose is a really great way to open your chest, open your back and relieve some tension to your hips. So Faith is going to help me do this today and we're going to demonstrate this using a strap. So she's going to come on down to her back and she's going to draw her heels fairly close into her sit bones and take her feet hip-width distance apart with her heels slightly out and her toes slightly in. She wants her knees to come straight out from her hip. We have a tendency to allow our legs to flop out. Well, we want to keep them in. Good. She's going to inhale in, draw her belly in on the exhale, and begin to slowly press into her feet, squeeze her thighs and lift up one vertebra at a time. Coming up nice and slow, and then rolling all the way up to the top of the shoulders. Notice how she can open her heart this way and lift her hips up. So in order to allow her to do that with a little bit deeper stretch, we're going to bring the strap and we're going to place it--did you get that over there? Good. She's going to place it around her ankles. Good. And just inhale and lengthen through her spine. And then as she exhales, she's going to have just very gentle pressure on that strap allowing her to lift up even more. So she presses into the strap with her feet, and then as she lengthens up, she's able to open up through her heart, her chest, her solar plexus, her hips, and lift up getting a nice back bend. Breathing and then just relaxing into the stretch. It takes a while to construct the bridge so we use the strap to help us construct our bridge from here to there, and come into it in proper alignment.

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