Crocodile

Benefits:

• Improves digestions

• Relieves stress and anxiety

• Eliminates muscular tension

Steps:

• Start lying on belly, feet turned out

• Bend your elbows, holding onto opposite elbows and placing your elbows on the floor forward from your shoulders

• Drop your forehead to your forearms.  Your chest should be off the floor and your head should comfortably reach your forearms, while your neck and shoulders remain comfortable.  Make any adjustments to the position of your arms that you need to make.

• Begin breathing deeply into your belly, breathing through your nose.  Your belly should press against the floor as you inhale and relax as you exhale.  This provides a gentle massage to your internal organs, helps strengthen your diaphragm and helps to stimulate circulation throughout your torso.

• Stay in this position for 8-10 long, slow belly breaths

• Release your elbows and press back to child's pose or come up to sitting.