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Tibetan weaponry 2 (eka pada supta virasana) shape (from reclined mountain) Bring heels flat on floor just in front of hips. Lift right foot, hold outer ankle with right hand, arm outside leg. Bring heel to hip, point foot. Hold outer edge of left foot with left hand, arm inside leg. Flex foot. Lean onto left hip, knee. Simultaneously straighten left leg to capacity, flip top  of right foot to floor. Lower knee

The back leg in asymmetrical poses is naturally in a shadowy, hidden location. Since it’s out of our line of vision, it is often difficult to align. Because we can usually see the front leg in an asymmetrical pose, we’ll use our vision to help tune up its alignment, and it is indeed often the first thing we notice in a pose. But here’s the rub: alignment of the front leg is largely dependent upon the back leg’s posit

I want to talk about your hip flexors, and why they may seem to be getting tighter over time, even though you stretch them regularly. First, the anatomy: psoas is a name commonly used for the main hip flexors, and actually refers to 2 muscles, the psoas major and the iliacus, sometimes jointly called the iliopsoas. The ilicaus originates on the inner edge of the hip bones, while the psoas major originates at vetebrae