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Yoga for Back Pain Series 2: Basic Flexibility for Pain Prevention

By Ann Pizer, About.com

Updated April 05, 2007

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Downward Facing Dog - Adho Mukha Svanasana

Downward Facing Dog

Downward Facing Dog

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1. Come back to a neutral spine.

2. Exhale, curl your toes under, and straighten your legs, coming back to Downward Facing Dog.

3. Bend your knees, coming up onto the balls of your feet and bring the belly to rest on the thighs and the sit bones up high. Then sink your heels, straightening the legs and keeping the high upward rotation of the sit bones.

4. Hold the pose for five breaths.

Why Downward Facing Dog? from Back Pain Guide Anne Asher.

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