PREPARATION:

1. Lie down on your stomach on a mat or something firm, not on the bed.

2. Place all four limbs out to the diagonal so that if viewed from overhead, your body would
resemble the letter, "X".

3. Place forehead on the floor.

4. Take a deep inhalation, squeeze the gluteals very tightly.
 

EXECUTION:

1. Exhaling, lift all four limbs up off the floor along with your head and HOLD the position for 20
seconds, breathing, and pulling the abdominals back up toward your spine as you "hold".

  

2. Release and repeat two more times.

3. When finished, roll over onto your back, pull your knees into your chest and hold (stretching
the spine). Release knees and relax.
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