This exercise helps to enhance students' flexibility while ensuring proper alignment and breath control. It focuses on increasing their range of motion in a safe, controlled manner, using resistance bands to assist in deepening stretches without compromising their technique.

Preparation:

Have students prepare by lying on their backs on a mat with a resistance band. Ensure that their band is securely wrapped around their upper thigh to just below the knee, to provide support and resistance.

Steps:

1. Instruct students to gently raise the working leg to a 90-degree angle, holding both ends of the resistance band in their hands.

2. Have them move the leg through attitude and extend it three times, having them synchronise the movement with their breath.

3. Encourage students to roll onto their sides, transferring the band into the opposite hand of the working leg, and repeat the attitude to extension movement in à la seconde. Slowly return into devant.

4. Remind students to focus on maintaining their hips and shoulders in alignment throughout the exercise and to use their breath to facilitate movement and relaxation. Repeat on the alternate side.

Focus:

Stress the importance of keeping their hips squared and their backs flat against the mat to ensure proper alignment.