Hand to Foot Yoga Pose

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So the next series of leg stretches will help to open up the hamstrings, the lower back and the hip flexor muscles, especially the outer, rotator hip flexors. So you can take a strap or whatever you have that can use like a scarf or a tie or something to extend the sole of your foot up towards the ceiling. Make sure that your elbows come down towards the floor. Your chest stays open and as you extend out through the heel you activate your quadriceps muscles and you release the front of the hip flexors. And then you can take the strap into the same hand as the foot that you are straightening up and extend it now over to the side to open up the inner thigh muscles but keep the connection of your pelvis on the floor and rotate the big toe side of the foot up towards the ceiling, stretching out and lengthening from the hip out through the inner foot. And then exhaling, extending the leg up to center. Then straighten your opposite leg and now draw the leg across to stretch the outer hip and feel still the connection to the pelvis as you cross over. Try not to get it too far across but to draw the thigh bone back in to stretch the outer hip. And then exhale and release back to center.

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