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Belly-Flattening Yoga Moves 2

Cobra Pushup

Squeeze a foam roll or towel between your thighs and lay flat on your stomach, tucking tailbone toward the mat. Place hands under shoulders, with elbows up, and push the tops of your feet into the floor. Next, inhale and push up into Cobra, opening chest and pulling rib cage forward. Be sure to keep shoulders down. Exhale and release, lowering yourself slowly and carefully, one set of ribs at a time. Repeat three times.

Curl

Lie with knees bent and arms down at sides. Roll shoulder blades off the floor to form a large C from the top of head to knees, and let hands slide up to the outside of thighs. Tuck your pelvis up and under, and gaze beyond knee. Hold for 30 seconds. Next, raise arms up by ears and hold for another 30 seconds. Return to start and rest for 30 seconds, then repeat for two more sets.

Prone Gluteal

Lie facedown on the floor with one forearm over the other, resting forehead on both. Next, roll pelvis slightly under and pull abs up and in toward your spine. Raise right leg a few inches off the floor, and then left, keeping them about 1 foot apart, with toes slightly pointed. Squeeze your glutes and lower-back muscles, and pulse both legs up and down a few inches for 20 counts. Rest for 20 seconds and then repeat for a total of three sets. To work mid-back, bring heels together and slightly bend knees, and repeat for one more set of 20 pulses.

Belly-Flattening Yoga Moves

Twisted Warrior

From a standing position, move into Warrior 1, stepping left leg forward, toes straight ahead, and right leg back, toes turned out. Root feet into the ground, engage your core, and twist at the waist, hooking right elbow over left thigh. Make a fist with your right hand and brace left hand on it, lifting your torso up off your thigh and relaxing your neck. For more of a challenge, perform bind by sliding left arm down and around left thigh, clasping hands behind back. Hold for a few breaths, then repeat on right side.

Twisted Root

Lie on your back in traditional situp stance — with hands clasped behind head, feet on the floor, and knees bent. Cross right knee over left knee, and try to interlock right ankle with left ankle. Next, inhale and curl head and chest up. Exhale and curl pelvis and thighs up, pulling abs in toward spine. Release and repeat three times. Next, place hands on left thigh. Push against thighs as your thighs resist against hands. Hold for a breath and release, and then repeat the whole sequence with legs switched.

Bridge With Roll

Place a foam roller or a rolled and double beach towel between thighs. Lie on back with knees bent and directly over feet, and rest hands by heels, palms up. Press heels and balls of feet into the floor with toes up. Exhale and curl tailbone toward the roll, and then using abs and glutes, lift hips and torso toward the ceiling. Hold for 5 to 10 breaths. Lengthen ribs with each inhale, and focus on lengthening your back with each exhale. Lower down starting with upper back and finishing with lower back, keeping pelvis tilted up.

L-Seat

Sit on a mat with legs extended and feet pointed. Place hands on the floor, just outside thighs, and slightly round torso downward, curling abs. Next, pull lower abs in toward spine and use them to lift hips off the mat. Your weight should be balanced between your hands and heels. Hold for five counts and then release, repeating for three reps