Video Transcript

Hi, I'm Sarah, Founder of Pilates By Sarah Luna. In this video, we'll go over safe stomach stretches for while you're pregnant. So, here's two Pilates stretches. You're going to either do this on a chair or seated on the floor, bed, depending on where you're most comfortable. Take the hands behind you and on your inhale, you're going to lift the chest and open up the sternum. Let the head slightly go up so your gaze is going up. You should feel a stretch right on your stomach. Feel free to hold that, you want to breath into that stretch. If you move your arms a little bit further back, you can intensify the stretch and feel free to point the toes, the fingers away from you if that's better on your wrists. After you've held that for about 30 seconds, you're going to come out of it and take one arm up to the side and we'll go into our mermaid stretch. So, you want to take that arm up and over the side, stretching in the side waist and the stomach and return. Repeating about three times, up and over, feel lengthen your side waist and coming up. If you'd like a variation on this, you're going to come up and over and then take the arm down and then opening it up towards the ceiling, opening the chest and repeating that about four times. Feels nice on the side waist, coming back to neutral and going back to the other side so that you're nice and even. So, once again, my name is Sarah Luna, and in this video we went over safe stomach stretches for while you're pregnant.