Yoga Tips: Improve Your Posture

In this video, Meghan Ann Martin, a certified yoga instructor, demonstrates the towel stretch to stretch your arms and improve posture.

Transcript

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Want to help out your posture?

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Give yourself a deep arm stretch. And if you're not that flexible, you can use a strap, a towel, your clothing, anything.

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So I'm going to show you a towel. Take a towel. Open it up. Grab one end with your right hand.

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Drop it behind your back. Reach your left arm around. Grab that towel. Lift your chest.

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Hold it here for a full breath and then let it go. For a deeper stretch, you can bend the body forward keeping

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the chest lifted. To release, just release the end of the towel. I'll show you on the opposite side without the towel.

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Bring the left arm up overhead. Bring the right arm around. Finding an interlaced grip, lifting the chest.

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Holding it here. Exhale. You can extend the little bit forward for a deeper stretch,