Yoga Download.com. Take Yoga Anywhere.

Welcome to Yoga Download. I'm Cher Asler and I'm a certified Pilates and yoga instructor.

You can find me at Yoga withshare.com and at my Pilates studio, ph7 palates.com.

This is a 20-minute power abs class. I hope you enjoy it.

One of my teachers, Saul David Ray, said it best.

Unconscious core work, mindless sit-ups, that is, creates more energy blocks in the body.

So, stay in your body, don't tune out, go slow, modify, or give yourself permission to take a

break to make sure you're not feeling any pain in your back or your neck.

Start by lying on your back with your knees bent, feet on the floor, as if you are about to do bridge pose.

Close your eyes and come on a little journey with me first.

Visualize a zipper from your pubic bone to your belly button, as if you have a tight pair of jeans on, and zip it up.

Next, pull your belly button to the low part of your spine. Then think

about a big elastic belt around your waistline that corsets your abdominals in. Interlace your hands

behind your head and round up to an abdominal crunch and check out that you haven't pushed your abdominals out,

but rather pull your navel down to the spine.

And then lower back down.

So now we'll do elbow to knee,

round head and shoulders up again,

and bring both knees right over your hips into tabletop.

Toes are active, shins are parallel to the ground.

Take an inhale point your elbows up towards the ceiling

and exhale twist both elbows towards your left knee.

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