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The Hi, I'm Jeannie Manchester. I'm Jeannie Manchester. I'm here with Yoga Download.com.

And we are going to be discussing the tailbone for a few minutes in this tutorial.

And, well, let's just start. There's a mystery sometimes to our yoga practice and what do we mean by scoop the tailbone, tuck the tailbone.

You know, we can have this kind of extreme, you know, inhale, take the thighs back, exhale,

tuck the tail, and not really get into the esoteric piece, which is really, really important to our practice,

which is the breath.

So let's go over here to Bonard and just look at where the tailbone is.

So if we look at here, we have the sacrum, these bones that are fused together at the base of your spine right here. It's a triangular-like bone.

About four to five fused bones here in the sacrum. And then we have, of course, the tailbone, right? It's actually quite prominent. It also mimics the sacrum and then we have of course the tailbone right it's it's actually quite

prominent it's also mimics the sacrum it's a triangular like bone at the base of

your spine so what is it in yoga practice when when your teacher says okay now on

your exhale scoop your tailbone right so'm going to show you on the inhale,

our thighs go back, and our pelvis rotates anterior, right?

It goes back like this.

On the exhale, the tailbone and the outer hips actually narrow,

and we actually come into what we call the pelvic floor.

Right, and the pelvic floor.

The pelvic floor is this area right between the pubic bone and the tailbone.

There's a hammock of muscles there.

If I put my hand in there, this would be the muscles that meet pubic bone and tailbone.

Those muscles form a hammock.

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