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Meditation 101: Find Your Inner Om With One Easy Move

Photographed by Arthur Elgort, Vogue, December 2006

Photographed by Arthur Elgort, Vogue, December 2006

Whether you’re recovering from a crazy weekend or prepping for a busy week ahead, Sunday is the perfect day to stop and find some inner peace. Even if you don’t have time to make it to yoga (or simply can’t brave the snow), we’ve got the perfect solution. Here, David Barton Gym’s director of yoga, Robert Nguyen, walks us through his favorite standing meditation move.

Photographed by Patrick Demarchelier, Vogue, April 2010

Photographed by Patrick Demarchelier, Vogue, April 2010

1. Stand tall, with your feet hip-distance apart.

2. Look forward, with your chin parallel to the floor, and keep your focus on an object at eye level.

3. Using your left hand, touch your collarbone and relax your elbow alongside your ribs.

4. Extend your right hand out to the side and rotate your palm so that your thumb points down toward the floor. Place the back of your hand on the tail end of your lumbar spine.

5. As you inhale, feel the collarbone lift into your fingers and widen across your chest.

6. As you exhale, feel the back of your right hand elongate with your lower back and tail end of spine.

7. Repeat for 10 breaths, and try to balance the front and back of your body via breath awareness (a technique that helps calm the nervous system). Repeat with the back of your left hand placed on the lower lumbar and the right hand on your collarbone.

—Kristin Tice Studeman, Style.com

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