One teacher described how a backbend clears the airways to creativity, and opens your heart to love and wisdom. |
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She hadn't done a backbend for a couple weeks and her muscles took a few times to get used to the movement again. |
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This classic yoga backbend strengthens the muscles that extend along your entire spine and increases spine mobility. |
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Inhale and lift your right arm up, reaching back and moving your spine into a mild backbend. |
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Finally, again push your hands and also your feet into the floor bringing your body into a backbend, lifting from the floor up. |
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Some popped right into the backbend wheel, while others embraced leaping up and down, ribbiting like frogs. |
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Leaping even higher, he seems to lie on the air in an easy diagonal, before landing on one knee in a stupendous backbend. |
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We all remember that moment when she's in a backbend and kicks her legs. |
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It's called bow pose, but isn't it just an upside down backbend? |
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By the third backbend, she was all limbered up, ready for the handspring. |
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Options include a heart-centered practice, a flowing backbend segment, standing poses, and meditation to promote relaxation. |
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In the anguished couple, the woman, Wendy Whelan, does a full three-hundred-and-sixty-degree backbend over her partner's body, her legs opening and closing in the air like scissors. |
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Stretch the chin forward and straighten the backbend backward. |
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A few times, he swooped into a sudden backbend, punctuating a phrase. |
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I just hope to keep making music and that it is the mainstream that bends its ear to me than me backbend to the mainstream. |
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James toys mercilessly with me and jokes that I'm turning him on when I manage to get a breastbouncing backbend right. |
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