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If you're still comfortable with balances in your pregnancy there's a really fun way
to have a balance that's called the Arm and Leg Balances. So Emily is going to show it
for us. Coming into hands and knees. It's a nice way to really lengthen, getting a nice
really stretch. So hands and knees, wrists underneath your shoulders, knees, hip width
apart and underneath the hips, beautiful. Are you comfortable? Now during this pose,
make sure your neck stays in alignment with the spine. You don't want to become unbalance.
So first, lift it up the left leg. Now think about these hips, let them be nice and level,
internally rotate that thigh to make sure it stays that way. Now this one, you can press
through the toes or the heels, whatever is best for you. And lifting the opposite arms
so you'll be lifting at the right arm. She's got the right arm and the left leg. Now kind
of reaching fingertips to toes or fingertips to heels whatever feels comfortable for you.
Beautiful. Look down towards the floor, keep that neck in alignment. Lovely. Checking out
the balance. Now don't do this if your balance is uncomfortable. Now if you're feeling a
little adventurous, you can come into a nice little Counter stretch. She's going to take
the right arm, reach back to the top of the left foot. Now when she's in this Counter
stretch, she's opening up her shoulders, she's stretching up the thigh and that hip. So its
nice little Counter Stretch there. And to come out of it, you very slowly and gently
release it back into the balance, lengthen and then gently release down hands and knees.
Don't come into that Counter Stretch if you're not ready for it. Go ahead and lower down
to Child Pose. Take that break.