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Technique

  1. Get down on all fours, shoulders over wrists and hips over knees.
  2. Inhale and slowly arch your back from the tailbone to the head and look up (cow).
  3. Exhale and round your back from the tailbone to the head and look towards your belly (cat).

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Muscles

Flexibility

Primary

  • Spine
  • Abs
  • Obliques

Secondary

  • Pelvis

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Equipment

Ground (hands or body)
Ground (hands or body)

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Appears in

Joint movements
Trunkextensionflexion
trains stretches

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Progressions

e16o

Cat cow circle

Beginner
e17g

One-leg cat-cow

Beginner
w01x

Moon salutation A

Novice
w01y

Moon salutation B

Novice
e16q

Standing cat cow

Beginner
e0zw

Roll up

Beginner
e035

Sphinx pose

Beginner
e172

Happy baby

Beginner
e05a

Sphinx pose leg flutters

Novice
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