5 Bring your arms behind you. Keep the abdomen in, your chest expanded, and arms straight, and allow the stretch to penetrate for ten or fifteen seconds. Relax with the intensity as you run energy through the arm lines. Breathe smoothly.
Bring your arms behind your knees and clasp your hands.
Be certain to position your hands securely behind your knees and slowly draw your upper torso down as far as comfortable. Your head should be lowered and directed toward your knees.
Raising the pelvis up to vertical, drop the arms behind, placing the heel of each palm on the heel of the foot on the same side. Transferring weight and support to the hands, bring the pelvis forward, and the head and neck backward.
On an exhale, sweep your arms behind your back and bring them to your sacrum, palms facing back.
Throw your arms behind your head and grasp each shoulder with the opposite hand. Let your head rest on your forearms. This is an excellent relaxing stretch for the shoulders, the cervical and the lumbar regions.
Bend the knees, grasping the heels and bringing the forearms behind the calf muscles until they touch. Straighten the legs, bring the forehead to the shin, stretching and elongating the spine.
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Lift the shoulders well up, move the arms behind the back and clasp the fingers. Te back of the upper arms will be in contact with the back of the thighs. Take a few breaths.
4. On an inhale, draw your torso up off the floor as you straighten your arms behind you.
5. Press the tops of your feet into the floor.
6. Come down and rest on one cheek.
Swamiji closed his eyes for a moment, leant back and folded his arms behind his head, stretched out his feet to be warmed by the fire, and was overcome by a great feeling of peace, warmth and welcome.
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