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So be sure to keep your spine perpendicular to the earth, in other words think about your
spine like a flower stem coming right up out of the pelvis, straight up. There's a tendency
when we first learn this pose to want to lunge the torso forward, but that's not the pose.
The posture is to keep the spine straight up, remember that action of inhaling and lengthening
the spinal column, exhaling and dropping it and not giving into wanting to lunge forward,
keeping this straight up, the energy moves straight up, from the earth, through your
feet, up the spine, up to the crown and then the exhalation drops back down into the earth.
So keep the spine, always straight up, coming right out of your pelvic griddle, so to speak,
lifting right up, arms parallel, chin level, energy moving up on the inhale, down and out
on the exhale.