ashtanga yoga baddha konasana

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Hi

I don't know any technical advice, but I do know from

my own experience. I had very stiff hips when I began

ashtanga and was routinely asjusted heavily by

teachers. When I moved to a 5 day a week practise my

hips really started to open up, with strong

adjustments every day. I was finally able to do the

full physical pose, chin to ground. However, before I

knew it, when going into the pose one day by myself my

weight came too far forward and my knee cracked big

time.

 

Since then I have been receiving very subtle and

gentle adjustment from my new very excellent teachers.

These gentle adjustments have helped my hips loosen

in a way the strong adjustments did not. These

adjustments involve the main pressure being applied to

my lower back encouraging a deep opening and very

gentle pressure on the upper back. Only when I am in

the final part of the posture( part 3 sitting up) do

the teachers sometimes push the legs down to the

floor.

 

So my understanding from this is that for me, the

gentle slow adjustements have been far more

beneficial. I would encourage you to find that

softness in your approach. Hope this helps in some

way.

--- lestats7 <6ohda wrote:

 

 

hello group,

 

can someone give me some technical advise on baddha

konasana?

it is the one pose in the primary series that is

giving me trouble.

for two years my knees have been 6 inches off the

ground with little

improvement. in self practise i am stood on and they

go down to the

floor but this is very painful and i can't do much in

the pose on my

own. at home i try and sit in it to watch tv ect

thinking this will

gently open the pose up but it doesn't seem to do so.

are there any good poses to open the hips in this

pose, it is strange

as it is the only thing in the primary series that is

painful and

that isn't opening up.

many thanks

 

christos

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

if you think of the knees moving straight down to the

floor this can be problematic. the knees need to

spiral in outward rotation and reach strongly away

from the midline. the outer heels and the outside of

foot need to draw emphatically in towards eachother.

This you could say, is Iyengar style alignment. also

care needs to be taken that the sacrum is not jammed

or may will be pain and nerve compression. this is to

hard to describe in an email. Also there is a

technique where you place gradually increasing height

under t he feet to allow the hips to rotate open from

a different perspective, Finally, is it really

necessary for the knees to touch the ground? The

rotation in this asana is different from that needed

for eka pada sirsana, which is much more important in

the ashtanga sequences of second series,, third and

beyond s.

--- lestats7 <6ohda wrote:

> hello group,

>

> can someone give me some technical advise on baddha

> konasana?

> it is the one pose in the primary series that is

> giving me trouble.

> for two years my knees have been 6 inches off the

> ground with little

> improvement. in self practise i am stood on and they

> go down to the

> floor but this is very painful and i can't do much

> in the pose on my

> own. at home i try and sit in it to watch tv ect

> thinking this will

> gently open the pose up but it doesn't seem to do

> so.

> are there any good poses to open the hips in this

> pose, it is strange

> as it is the only thing in the primary series that

> is painful and

> that isn't opening up.

> many thanks

>

> christos

>

>

>