We’ve all heard about it, and strive to achieve it: the reputed yoga butt. Maybe you spend countless hours in the gym trying to tone and tweak every inch that you can, or maybe you hit the mat just to lengthen your muscles, but either way creating a perfect posterior is often a focal point of your work out. According to Women’s Health, these three poses can help remodel your backside. Remember, patience and persistence is key.

Chair Pose
Begin standing in mountain pose. 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 upward. Accentuate the lift in your arms and chest so your upper spine is in a slight backbend. Tuck your pelvis. Shoot for 10 breaths. Feel that butt-burn?

Half moon pose
Start in downward-facing dog pose. 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—do not lock—your knee.

Sugar cane pose
In half moon 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.

xx, Grace Daniel

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