Crescent Stretch

Benefits:

• Increases energy

• Stretches and strengthens arms, shoulders, chest, back and abdomen

• Stretches waist and sides of body

• Improves circulations

• Limbers the spine

 Steps:

• Start standing with your feet parallel and close together

• Inhale, raising your arms overhead

• Exhale, interlacing your fingers

• Inhale, reach your hands up towards ceiling, relaxing your shoulders

• Exhale, reach your hands to right, as you press your hips to left

• Still reaching to right, open your chest towards ceiling, and take 3 slow, smooth breaths

• Inhale, reach your hands back up towards ceiling, fingers still interlaced

• Exhale, reach hands to left, press hips to right

• Still reaching to the left, open your chest, take 3 slow, smooth breaths

• Bring your arms back to center.

Release your arms to the sides and shake them out.