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Perform the exercise as described above, but raise your legs beforehand. Bend your knees at right angles and pull your thighs gently toward your chest, not quite creating a right angle with your hips. 2. If your head doesn’t need to be supported by your hands, you can also hold your arms out at your sides. This is less taxing for your abdomen, but more so for your neck muscles. 2006 14:51 Uhr Seite 62 3. Raise your upper body without rounding your back. Tuck up one knee to stop yourself hollowing your back.
The idea is to stretch the back of your neck as much as possible and to lower your collarbone. Pull your elbows together. This is not an abdominal exercise; so only raise your head slightly. 3. With your next inhalation, raise your pelvis as you lower your head and your elbows. 4. With your last exhalation, unroll your spine, vertebra by vertebra and lay back down on the floor. This exercise sequence supples and relaxes your back. So that you can hear your tensions, hum “mmmm” as you uncurl your spine in step 4.
Ideally your forearms should rest on your legs or, if you are sitting on a chair, on a table. With your eyes open, look alternately from right to left and back 6 times and do not focus on anything. Make this movement harmonious; try to avoid jerky movements. Then look alternately from up to down and back 6 times, again without focusing on anything and remaining relaxed. 2006 13:32 Uhr Seite 47 Variations 1. Look diagonally from top right to bottom left and back and then the other diagonal, from top left to bottom right and back.