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Sitting with the hands lightly cupped onto the knees initially, tilting back a little bit so that you feel an automatic balance of the sit bones, the feet slightly lift off the floor.

Now go ahead and just allow for yourself to hang onto the knees.

The hands are cupped around the knees and you’re hanging so that the abdominal wall is pretty soft here to start.

Draw the shoulders down now.

Make sure the neck is relaxed as you do so.

Release the right hand and press the palm forward, but engaging that movement from the shoulder, doing the same with the left shoulder as you press the left palm forward.

Now try to straighten the legs by keeping the balls of the feet active as you lift, and you don’t have to lift the legs all the way here if it’s too challenging for you.

You can keep the knees slightly bent.

The next step here would be that we want to try to lift the sternum up more to allow for the back line of the body to become straight, but continually drawing the shoulders down.

To release, bend the knees again, cup the hands around to the front of the knees and just relax.