Cat / Cow Pose

Description

Get down on all fours, with your hands flat under your shoulders and your knees under your hips. As you exhale, round your back from the tailbone to the head, as if a string were pulling your spine up toward the ceiling, drawing the pelvis in and gazing toward your navel. As you inhale, let your chest open forward and gently lift your tailbone toward the sky to arch your spine. Flow through these movements smoothly and with control, in sync with your breathing.

Settings

Equipment

No Equipment

Positions

Quadruped Position

Muscle groups

Lumbar extensorsLumbar flexorsThoracic extensorsThoracic flexorsCervical extensorsCervical flexors

Difficulty

Easy

Movement

FlexionExtension

Contraction mode

Concentric