"You already know that core strength is essential to your everyday life. A strong core-the muscles of your midsection, including your abdominals, obliques, and lower back-can maintain or improve your posture and allow you to continue to do the things you love with ease. There's also a psychological advantage to strengthening your core. Scientific research indicates that physical activity, including the types that make you feel physically strong, can enhance your self-esteem."
"This in turn alters the way you perceive the world, which changes the manner in which you show up to situations. That can be life-changing. This supports what many yoga teachers have experienced and observed, which is that cultivating a sense of inner strength can help you trust your inner wisdom in every situation, whether related to work or relationships. The confidence and shift in perspective you gain from feeling differently matters. Start by practicing these yoga poses for core strength one at a time to discover how you respond and adapt to the challenge."
Core strength involves the midsection muscles—abdominals, obliques, and lower back—and supports posture and everyday function. Strengthening the core also delivers psychological benefits because physical activity that cultivates feelings of physical strength can boost self-esteem. Enhanced self-esteem changes perception and behavior and can be life-changing. Cultivating inner strength helps one trust inner wisdom across work and relationship situations and produces confidence and perspective shifts. A sequence of eight yoga poses targets core strength and confidence. Practice poses one at a time to adapt, then link movements with the breath into a vinyasa at about one breath per movement, beginning with warm-ups and Sun Salutations.
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