So we're going to come into Cat and Cow pose.
Beautiful to do in the beginning of your practice
because it opens up the spine, it starts to
move like fluidity through the spine, join
the breath and the body together nicely.
So it's a nice one one to do right in the
beginning.
To start you're going to come on to all fours.
Make sure that the shoulder is over the wrist.
So a lot of us get in here, pitch it forward
or more commonly pitch it behind.
So just make sure the shoulders are over your
wrist and that your knees are right underneath
your hips.
And we'll first just talk about the whole
anatomy of the pose and then we'll talk about
different ways that you can use your feet
to aid in this process.
So first things first is Cow.
And you have to think of it like an Indian
cow.
Like it needed to eat a meal.
So it looks like this.
The belly falls down, the shoulders roll back
and the gaze comes up towards the sky.
That's on the in breath.
As you exhale you're going to reverse that.
So you're going to carve the belly in, puff
the rib cage up and look in at your navel.
Inhale, and exhale.
So you can start to add the toes.
Curl the toes, even press back into the toes,
gaze up and then the release the toes, press
the tops of the feet down and look in at your
navel.
If you want to intensify this, make this more
of a core, a core awakening posture, just
tuck your toes under and hover your knees
two inches above the floor and work the pose
this way.
So it's going to be smaller, it's going to
be more subtle, but you'll have to engage
a little bit in the core body to keep yourself
here.
So there's some variations of Cat and Cow.
