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Partner Yoga Workout

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Partner yoga can help you deepen both your poses and your relationships. “Doing yoga with a partner makes many poses more accessible, comfortable, and therapeutic,” says Mary Aranas, who teaches at Pure Yoga and leads partner yoga workshops around the country. “By holding onto another person, you can balance better than you could on your own, move into poses more deeply, and hold them longer, which increases strengthening and stretching.” Working in tandem also improves communication. All you need is a spouse, a friend, or another willing partner — and neither of you has to be overly fit or flexible. Aranas chose the following poses, including tension-busting twists and restorative stretches, for their simplicity.

Benefits: Increases lung capacity, stretches the torso, and lifts the spirit.

How to Do It: Stand facing each other, feet hip-width apart so that you can comfortably hold each other’s forearms with your arms bent. Inhale and lift the chest, then exhale and drop head gently back, straightening arms. Hold the pose for 2 to 3 breaths. Inhale, and return to standing.

adapted from www.wholeliving.com

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