Many clients new to the Karve method really struggle with the abdominal work done after seatwork.
Because these positions are so unique, it takes some work to really connect with the muscles responsible for doing them correctly.
Your deepest abdominals, called your transversus abdominis, support your spine and are interwoven with your diaphragm. So, the only way you can recruit them is by using your breath and exhaling, sneezing, coughing, and doing that pelvic tuck Karve clients know and love.
Throughout class, when you are exhaling sharply, you are working to pull in these important abdominal muscles. Sometimes, you may not feel as if you have control of them at all. Once you get control of them, and they start pulling in closer toward your spine, it allows for your whole belly to begin to pull in and flatten out. Yes!