This posture is featured in the first third of the Ashtanga Intermediate Series. It requires a lot of leg strength but you can build it up gradually with some use of blocks.
This is such a tough posture when you are new to Ashtanga. Just to get you legs crossed around your arms seems to defy gravity. Then once you can do that someone tells you to bring your head to the floor. What? And then come back up again. No Way! But somehow through magic and such like things change and one day you think what was all the fuss. Hope this little video helps where ever you are on your…
Never has been my favourite posture. But with a bit of care it can be ok.
A short video where I get to speak with yoga anatomy expert David Keil about the Psoas muscle.
About half way through the standing postures in Ashtanga you find Prasarita Padotanasana, not an overly complicated posture but still presents some challenges. There are also some things that we can be doing in this posture to get the most out of it.
Asana School returns this time looking at standing posture Trikonasana. What could be more simple than making a triangle with the body? Well it turns out lots of things.
Apparently a lot of people can have dysfunction with the pelvic floor with sometimes potentially embarrassing consequences. The better we understand the subject the easier it is to do something about it.
Utthita Parsvakonasana (Side AnglePosture) and Parivrtta Parsvakonasana (Revolved Side Angle Posture) These are nice postures and offer the chance to create some space on the side body but they are not necessarily that straight forward.
It is possible that some students may feel discomfort in the shoulder whilst doing certain actions in the yoga. One potential answer to this may be the underlying bony structure of the shoulder, specifically the shape and size of the acromion process.. This is not a topic that applies to everyone but is useful for teachers to have an understanding of as well as for students that feel something is not happening quite as it should at the shoulder. I…
Low back ache is suffered by so many people and as a yoga student it can often make you feel vulnerable or uncomfortable. Depending on the underlying cause of the discomfort these few postures may help you on your way to finding more space and softness.