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So laying flat on your back, have a strap nearby. First, make sure that you're lined
up evenly from the mid-line or the central axis of your body, so just make sure that
your legs are hip width apart evenly, that your arms and your shoulders are evenly apart.
That your head is great in line with the spine. Then, point your second toes straight up toward
the sky and keeping them pointing straight up bend your right knee, and take your strap
to the balls of the right toes. So it'll tend to slip into the arch of the foot, you want
to really hook it at the balls of the toes. And then push the balls of the toes up into
the strap to stretch your right leg more straight. Now for some of you if your hamstrings, the
muscle at the backs of the leg are more tight, your wag is going to be more straight out
in front. That's fine. You want to bring the leg to wherever you can to try and get it
to straight as possible. And you'll get a really nice stretch. Also, your bottom leg,
it'll tend to want to lift up. If you find that it's really lifting up, bend your bottom
knee and keep it bend even as you stretch the top leg. You can spread your toes actively
and push from the hip all the way up through the top legs, the top legs really extended
and long. Try extending your bottom leg again, and see if you can push your bottom leg down
toward the earth. Keep your breath full. There's a steadiness or commitments in the legs as
the muscles hug the bones, but an openness as you stretch and you expand. Good. And then
slowly you can bend the knee and release the leg long.