Double Paschimottanasana in Partner Yoga

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Double Paschimottanasana is a really great way to lengthen your hamstrings. Gina and I are going to face each other but move away almost to the edges of the mats and we're going to extend our legs to where our feet are touching. If you have really tight hamstrings you might just want to bend your knees on this one. You are going to inhale, lengthen up through the spine, lift your heart, lift your chest and as you exhale reach your hands towards your partner. Now it may be that you can't reach your partner so if you have a strap handy then Gina can take the sides of the strap and we can inhale in and as you exhale bend you elbows out to the side to draw your chest down. You want to feel that lengthening. It helps sometimes to move the fleshy part of the buttocks back so you are way up on your silt bones so you can inhale lengthen and exhale come down even deeper so you always want to use your breath. If you can reach your partner, you connect at the wrists, good, inhale lengthen and exhale lower. Also taking this into opposition, we're going to inhale up and I'm going to draw Gina down and lift back so take care to talk to your partner. Now she's going to draw me forward and then she comes up just a little, good and then inhale back up one more time exhale down helping each other down just a little bit deeper always using the breath and then inhale and release.

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