How this pose helps: strengthens core and improves balance
- Sit on the floor with your legs in front of you. Bend your knees, and lift your legs off the floor, bringing your knees in toward your chest with your shins parallel to the floor.
- Sit up as tall as you can, and take a breath in as you slowly begin to straighten your legs.
- Your legs don't need to be straight since the action of keeping your spine long and drawing your belly in is what works your abs here.
- Hold Boat pose for five breaths.