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Hi, my name is Chell Garcia-Trias, and I'm a modern dance instructor in Austin, Teaxs.
I'm going to show you the dead man's pose, which is a pose that people do in yoga, but
we do it a little bit differently in modern dance. And so what I'm going to do is I'm
just going to lay down, I'm going to relax my back, and as much as possible try and feel
every part of my back laying on the ground while I reach my arms up in a V and my legs
out in a V. So, I'm going to lay down, and reach my arms up, and my legs down. And I'm
just going to try and relax every muscle in my body. And I'm going to try and push my
back towards the ground while I do it. Once I feel pretty relaxed, I'm going to rock my
heels so that I have a little bounce, which is going to shake out my body a little bit,
it's going to shake out the muscles. And I can feel my head just nodding on the ground.
And the kind of modern dance that I do, it's called released dancing, and it's really important
that we learn to release our muscles as much as possible before we start to move, so that
we're not muscling everything, we're working within our body, within our limits, and we're
using our bones as much as possible to do all of the holding up. So this is a nice way
to make sure that all of those muscles are really, really, really just releasing. So
I'll do this for a little bit, and then I might just hang there, take breaths in your
diaphragm, and just relax. So that's a great way in modern dance to do a dead man's pose
and to make sure that you're releasing all of your muscles.