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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ms.Cherry Blossom" data-source="post: 7455304" data-attributes="member: 283623"><img src="http://cdn.womenshealthmag.com/files/images/yoga-for-your-butt-2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  Get a tight butt with these yoga workout moves         Maybe you're trying yoga in pursuit of the reputed <a href="http://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/sculpt-your-butt" target="_blank">yoga butt</a>. "Don't look for results the first  time," says Mark Blanchard of Power Progressive Yoga in Los Angeles  quite bluntly. "Muscles will get worked, calories will be burned."  Patience and persistence are the keys, ladies. Also important: Remember  that when you can no longer maintain the integrity of a pose, that's  when it's time to come out. "You're defeating the practice if you're  struggling and imbalanced, because you're trying to create symmetry in  the body," Blanchard explains. Practice these posterior postures  regularly for 2 weeks and then check the mirror. Click on the blue links to see demonstrations of these poses.<a href="http://www.womenshealthmag.com/yoga/chair-pose" target="_blank">Chair  pose (utkatasana)</a>Begin standing in <a href="http://www.womenshealthmag.com/yoga/mountain-pose" target="_blank">mountain  pose (tadasana)</a>: Arms at sides, sternum lifted. Bend your knees  deeply. Squeeze your inner thighs together and straighten your arms,  lifting them overhead and stretching your fingertips toward the sky.  Accentuate the lift in your arms and chest so your upper spine is in a  slight backbend. Tuck your pelvis. "Hold that for as long as you can  keep a smile on your face," Blanchard says. "If the smile has left your  face, you've left your yoga pose." Shoot for 10 breaths. Feel that  butt-burn?<img src="http://www.yogatic.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/powerful-pose.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><a href="http://www.womenshealthmag.com/yoga/half-moon-pose" target="_blank">Half moon pose (ardha chandrasana)</a>Start in <a href="http://www.womenshealthmag.com/yoga/downward-facing-dog-pose" target="_blank">downward-facing dog pose (adho mukha svanasana)</a>.  Step your right leg forward to a lunge position. Standing on that leg,  with the fingertips of both hands still on the ground or a block for  stability, raise your left leg behind you, parallel with the floor. Turn  your torso to the sky by opening your left hip. Keeping your right  fingertips where they are, raise your left arm and reach straight up so  your arms form one straight line. Flex your airborne foot and stand  firmly on the grounded one. Engage your leg muscles and lift&#151;do not  lock&#151;your knee. Stay for one more breath than you think you can manage.  Do the same on the other side.<img src="http://z.about.com/d/yoga/1/0/7/1/bigardhachandrasana.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Extra credit: Sugar cane pose In <a href="http://www.womenshealthmag.com/yoga/half-moon-pose" target="_blank">half moon</a> (as described above) bend the knee  of your lifted leg and reach back and grab the ankle. Press your bent  knee away from your head, then arch your upper back slightly as you  reach the crown of your head toward the foot of the bent-knee leg.</blockquote>

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