Cat-Cow Yoga Pose – Cat Pose is often paired with Cow Pose as a gentle warm-up sequence. When practiced together, the poses help to stretch the body and prepare it for other activities.
Today’s Poses:
- Cat-Cow Yoga Pose
- Small & Large Intestine Clearing Pose
Benefits of Cat-Cow Pose
Cat-Cow Pose is a gentle flow between two poses that warms the body and brings flexibility to the spine. It stretches the back torso and neck, and softly stimulates and strengthens the abdominal organs. It also opens the chest, encouraging the breath to become slow and deep. The spinal movement of the two poses stimulates the kidneys and adrenal glands. Coordinating this movement with your breathing relieves stress and calms the mind.
This sequence also helps to develop postural awareness and balance throughout the body. It brings the spine into correct alignment and can help prevent back pain when practiced regularly.
Transcript: Cat-Cow Yoga Pose Video
Hi everybody, welcome back it’s Mauren with YouVeda. Welcome to the yoga series for general support. Today we’re going to be doing the cat-cow pose, which is going to help improve our digestive fire as well as stretch out our neck and back, and we’re going to be resetting the ileocecal and Houston valves which are going to help ahead.
Let’s get started. We’re going to do the cat-cow yoga pose
- Bringing both hands shoulder-width apart directly beneath our shoulders
- You want to make sure that the sides are directly beneath there and bringing the knees back directly beneath the hips
- From here, you want to inhale dropping the belly button to the ground lifting that tailbone and gaze up towards the sky and
- With the exhale, you’re going to reverse that position rolling out the back, hollowing out the belly tucking the hips and pressing your hands firmly into the floor.
- So repeat this with every inhale into cow exhale into a cat if you need extra support you can feel free to tuck your toes too because the most important thing is that you’re in alignment and you’re breathing with this pose
- So to clear your ileocecal and placing your pinkies on the top of your hip bones from here
- Your fingers are going to be right on either side of your intestines you’re going to take a big inhale as you press those fingers in, massaging and pulling them up towards the lower of your ribcage as you exhale
- Relax those fingers and begin again with the next inhale repeat that about five to seven times, and then you can go ahead and clear your limps through the small and large intestines.
- It’s not what you think. You want to find a comfortable place to fit extend your legs out in front of you bring your hands and fists
- I like to take one fist and the other hand, right on the outside of it
- We’re looking for the pinstripes of your muscles here on the outside size and the inner thighs
- From here, you’re going to take your fists. I like to use my thumb knuckle to do whatever you need. You can use your fingertips as well, but from here, I’m going to place that palm firmly up and just get them nice rounded massages all the way from the knee up to the hip on the outer pinstripes.
- Then I’m going to do the same thing on the inside using my pinky knuckle all, and I’ll show you on this side, right here, pressing that palm in and gently massaging it all the way up towards my groin make sure you do both sides give them a really good massage. Feel those pinstripes as you do it
- Then you will be helping to clear your limp through the small and large intestine
