this one is challenging and intense for me. i chalk it up to years of exercise without proper stretch. it's hard for me to keep my back straight without my hands behind assisting but i've come a long way since starting your videos in february! thank you for the foundation and helping to break down the resistance :)
Sharing this oldie with you to help with your lower back pain. This pose can seem simple and then turn into a bugger - but practice regularly and feel lower back pain dissipate. Also some great Foundational principles in this one! #ywahomepractice #fwfg #yoga #yogaforhealth
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Michelle, are you serious? Adriene's not a knee doctor. Even if she was one, she hasn't examined your knees. There are dozens of conditions that could cause your knee pain. How could Adriene possibly know what would help … or make it worse? It's not nice to put someone "on the spot" like that.
I fell in love with your yoga youtubes earlier this year and I am hooked now! I really like you and your personal style! I was wondering where you got your yoga teacher certification and if you teach 200 hr yoga teacher trainings, I am considering becoming a yoga instructor after 6 years being dissatisfied at my current job? thanks
Hi there, I recommend starting with the Foundations of Yoga Series where each pose is broken down with a focus on foundation, action and alignment. Also, these videos don't take "Yoga" so seriously! They are fun and for all levels to go a little deeper. Try learning 1 a day! Then begin to integrate by trying some sequence videos. The gentle morning sequence is an nice one to start. Also- I will have more beginners sequences coming up. Send questions or feedback my way any time! Breathe deep.
Oh so good to hear. I had joint pain as a young person too. I was even prescribed an arthritic medicine my first year in college. Now I don't have any trouble and I don't take any medicine!!
Poses like this one help me to remember that its all connected. All one part. So it's not just the hammies - its all connected, lower back, etc. You softened your knees and found that tall spine- AWESOMEEEEE! In time we work with integration of breath to straighten the legs and hold them in the shape while moving the breath. So awesome! I love this comment! (also the benefit of breaking down the poses one by one!)
Starting all your videos from the beginning - these simple videos are so helpful - and I’ve always wanted to know the story or reason behind the name of all these poses - thanks adriene❤
I absolutely love you're Foundations of Yoga serious! They really help me get "in tune" with my body. I often don't even realize how tight I am in an area until I delve deep into a pose w/ one of your videos! Thank you so much!
Adriene, I am a marathon runner who has been through a LOT of physical trauma over the last three years. These traumas have sidelined my running. Each time I try to go out and run, I hurt my lower back. SO, I'm working my way through your Foundations series and "blogging" about it over on Facebook. With a 1 year old and 3 year old, and the achy body, these workouts are PERFECT for me right now. Thank you!
Thank you Adriene! I have struggled with this pose for many, many, many years. Your instructions really helped me to FINALLY EXECUTE THIS POSE. For this, I am forever grateful to you.This morning, I finally did my first staff pose. What a blessed gift!
Loved the video :)...easy postures are the most difficult if you think about it...because they force you think what else yoga can mean to you apart from mastering poses and showing off to your friends...lmao! They also teach us that we need not to always go so hard on ourselves and our lives in order to bring joy in our lives :)
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Hi Adriene ! Just wanted to say thank you ! I'm trying to do yoga on a more regular basis and your videos really help. A foundation video + sun salutations every morning is what gets me going so far ! Thank you :)
I've just done the first six videos of the "foundations" serie, and it was so great. I love to really explore all the poses, in details. You really are an amazing teacher, thank you !
Hi! You should never have to take a breather but rather slow down and make sure you are breathing in the postures. Always. Goal number one. Also- if you are going slow and breathing in the postures then you should not have to stretch before yoga but rather let the yoga be the stretching. Again, take it slow. Its hard to slow down sometimes :) But you are worth it! Start slow, ease in, breathe, stretch it out- and repeat! XOOX
Hey Adriene! Love the video. I've just started my yoga practice (last week! I'm on day 7 of 30 days of yoga with Adriene), and I was really struggling with this pose until you pretty much read my mind about my back sticking out. I folded my mat twice and it was a completely different pose for me, thanks! Keep up the great work!!
I've been going through your videos from the first one you posted and I'm loving them. You explain everything in a really simple yet detailed way I find your videos very easy to follow. Yoga is quite new for me, I used to be a dancer so I'm using yoga to keep my flexibility and strength up to scratch. Thank you so much for your videos I'm looking forward to making my way through the rest of them.
I love this! Thank you for guiding me/us through this challenging pose/posture. While it looks "easy," doing it properly IS challenging. You always make me smile! Namaste!!
Adriene, your videos are fantastic! I would like to thank you for making them. I can't afford Yoga classes right now and this is the only channel I've found that I can truly work with. Big props on the fundamentals videos that permit to understand each pose in depths in your body which I didn't get when I started Yoga a couple of months ago. I feel like when I go back to a class I'll know my body better, the poses better and will be able to find the right teacher! Xo
Thank you so much for this series! It is a great lesson in mindful movement or maybe posture is a better word:) To be zen-ed out is not to be mindless about your body and it's place in the universe, so to speak. I guess it is focus on your body and what you need from it and what it needs from you. Thanks again, Adriene:)
Wow I have always found this pose so difficult, despite making progress in other areas of my yoga. It's interesting to read others feel the same. I think it's a symptom of sitting at a desk for too long. This reminds me to carry yoga throughout my day - always connecting the crown of the head to tip of the tail bone and remembering not to slouch!
Wow! This is a hard pose. My lower back really wants to round out. I guess I need to try to sit on a cushion. At the age of 57, I'm trying yoga for the first time. I've been at it for about 2 weeks. I'm very inflexible and stiff with terrible posture but these videos are changing my life...I can feel my spine lengthening already. Thanks, Adrienne!
Yoga is a really interesting way to learn what muscles you use regularly. I work in a stock room, so forward fold is no problem. But this is harder than downward dog for me! I think I've found my next challenge of a pose to focus on here...
I really struggle with this pose. Getting a lot of tension in the hips, spine and shoulders. Bending the legs did help however. Just wondering how do I start to journey my legs downward?
Thanks to you I'm discovering yoga! And this pose is indeed far more difficult than it looks! As a beginner I have a question: where are you supposed to feel tension if you do the exercise well? I feel it in my legs, but also very heavily in my back... thanks!
This pose is challenging for myself, I never seem to welcome it in class and it’s never comfortable,. Thank you for breaking it down, now it’s easier to navigate through the motions, and much more fun 😊 Extremely beneficial and helpful! 🙏
Hello Hi Adriene!! Your videos have been my guide to learning Yoga and I love them. You are a fantastic instructor and I really enjoy all your little quirky moments. Gracefully and grandly movie quote from A League of Their Own original movie was awesome. Made me immediately think, "Eyebrows, there should be two. Thin and separate." LOL Love your videos. Thank you for doing what you do.
That is a GREAT question! They are on the way! Foundation poses will continue and you will start seeing more sequences with advanced poses. Thanks for the feedback. I will bump and arm support up to the top for you! Lets start with "crow" so beginners can have some fun too! Sound good? xo
Hi Adriene. I'm happy to learn the basic pose like Dandasana from you. Also I understand that the basic is too important.And Shiva Rae, She is wonderful. Thank you.
I was like 6 min, it's gonna be easy. I couldn't even made until 3. Min. Definitely needs practice, like Adrienne said, so much more than meets the eye.
Fantastic ..the way you explain ..!!! Yoga is a practice evolved in India & i am an Indian. It was very soothing to hear it all from you Love from India xoxo
This is one of the most challenging poses for me. I came here from the yoga tips for a healthy posture! I'm leaving half moon for tomorrow and finishing my practice with a cobblers pose. I just find that having my legs and my back straight at the same time is sooooo difficult. I even started sweating!!!
Thank you so much for this! I always come back to this pose. It's the hardest for me. One day I'll have my legs straight.. Until then, thank you for helping me to sit tall!
Day 184 (part 2) of the current run. Super difficult for me to sit up straight while doing this. Using a blanket helped, I might try with my back against the wall as well?
Hi Adriene! I love your detailed explanations! That helps a lot :) When will you start doing some of the more advanced posed, like arm support poses? Thanks
I am a yogi/runner. Anything in staff pose is a challenge (seated forward fold, etc...). Hoping one day this is an easy pose. ...and I have been practicing yoga (on & off) for 20+ years.
Love Hatha yoga!! Great strong pose ^_^ staff pose really helps me with my lower body and building strength in the center sacral point of gravity AAHHAHA.
Wow this is ageless, is more ways than one. But I found this to really allow my awareness to open chest, lift heart and it made me get a good stretch and release of tight pecs, which tend to draw my clavicles too tight and restrict my breathing (my tightness does), but this practice for dundasana allowed the lift and stretch and lengthen, so it released and allowed me to breathe as I sat up straighter in alignment.
i felt a lot of discomfort in my middle and upper back while doing this pose.... i wonder if that proves how much i am used to slouching during the day :/
Hi Adrienne, it normal for this pose to tingle and almost stretch/hurt upper glutes and lower back. I honestly can't tell if I'm doing it wrong or if that's my body experiencing something new? don't get this with bent knees but straight knees I do. what do you think?
thanks for this vid this pose was challenging evenntho it looks easy how long should I hold this pose I need to increase flexibility in my lower back and hamstrings and this pose I had to bend my knees a lil to bend forward thanks so much
Allo Adriene, and thank you SO very much for sharing these videos with us!! I am a total newbie and really enjoy learning and practicing with your calm, gentle, informative guidance (I'm working my way through the Foundations series.). I cannot straighten my legs and keep my back straight, so I appreciate you mentioning the bent-knee modification. Do you have any recommendations for increasing leg flexibility?? ( I realize I'm posting a question on a much older video, but I'm hopeful you can help!)
Hi! A regular yoga practice in general will increase your flexibility, but you can also try this Yoga For Flexibility - ua-cam.com/video/Yzm3fA2HhkQ/v-deo.html
I find that although I'm pretty flexible, sitting straight up with my legs straight is really challenging. I feel a lot of tightness in the front of my hips and like I need a lot of support to pull the spine up straight. I'm going to try this pose more frequently. Any other tips?
Lol, so random (and maybe fun fact): When I learned the name from you of this asana from for the first time, I was like...why is there an asana called "punishment pose?" And then when I did it, it really felt punishing all up in the back (also, I was trying to crank my poses like Soulja Boy back then too). I was like..this doesn't make any sense..why would yoga have a pose named like this?!! But later when you explained this was "stick pose" I was like (to myself) ohhh, "danda" not "dand", the latter meaning punishment or chastise. But yeah, this pose is mad challenging but also the most rewarding as I can feel a lot of hip release in my lower back. This was probably one of the stretches that helped me finally be able to do nice, long side body stretches without back spasms anymore. While I'm on the mat, I guess I can start today's practice then. Lol 🙏
whenever I do yoga poses, particularly sitting down poses, I have an odd pain (kinda) in my upper back. I guess that's from slumping at the computer everyday. But I just don't feel aligned, I feel like I'm resting on my lower back rather than my glutes, and when I try to straighten that pain kicks in.
Thanks a lot for your videos! Have a question about this pose: it’s hard to press down with heels and lift up from the low back upwards at the same time. My legs start to shake a lot, strong vibration. And the breath is not so smooth because of it. Do you have a recommendation?
Since breaking my back and having surgery coming back to yoga has been a struggle. Any sitting posture that engages the spine really hurts the muscles in my back. Specifically right below my shoulder blades. Any suggestions? Because these "easy" poses are pricing to be very painful.
Hi Adriene, when I hold this pose my upper back and shoulder blades hurt and I feel the need to roll my neck and curve my back. I sometimes have upper back pain (in my regular routines, not yoga) and I know I don't have the best posture. But is that normal for my upper back/shoulder blades to hurt during this pose? Should I continue doing it to work on improving my posture? Thank you!
Trying to do this then forward fold, especially wide-legged, I just can't seem to keep my back straight. One day I really worked to do that and ended up waking up the next day with a bad back. With a block it's a little easier but I just continue to feel my lower back bending forward. Not sure how to improve this. I'm guessing it's a core strength thing.
I absolutely suck at this pose, I can't seem to sit in this position without shaking. My hamstrings are super tight, my calfs are super tight, I get the mentioned caving in my abdomen and my lower back is tight. What do I need to do to progress with this?
I think actually just did this pose correctly for the first time. with upper body nice n tall i couldn't hold my legs straight! my hamstring too tight..?
it's comforting knowing that others find this as challenging as I did!
Your foundations of yoga are treasure trov of pin-point practice and wisdom ! With lasting gratitude ❤
this one is challenging and intense for me. i chalk it up to years of exercise without proper stretch. it's hard for me to keep my back straight without my hands behind assisting but i've come a long way since starting your videos in february! thank you for the foundation and helping to break down the resistance :)
Oh my goodness this engages muscles I didn't even know I had
Thank you! 💗
Sharing this oldie with you to help with your lower back pain. This pose can seem simple and then turn into a bugger - but practice regularly and feel lower back pain dissipate. Also some great Foundational principles in this one! #ywahomepractice #fwfg
#yoga #yogaforhealth
Michelle, are you serious? Adriene's not a knee doctor. Even if she was one, she hasn't examined your knees. There are dozens of conditions that could cause your knee pain. How could Adriene possibly know what would help … or make it worse? It's not nice to put someone "on the spot" like that.
I fell in love with your yoga youtubes earlier this year and I am hooked now! I really like you and your personal style! I was wondering where you got your yoga teacher certification and if you teach 200 hr yoga teacher trainings, I am considering becoming a yoga instructor after 6 years being dissatisfied at my current job? thanks
This is amazing. I’ve never ever engaged my muscles for this asana the way I did today.
Hi there, I recommend starting with the Foundations of Yoga Series where each pose is broken down with a focus on foundation, action and alignment. Also, these videos don't take "Yoga" so seriously! They are fun and for all levels to go a little deeper. Try learning 1 a day! Then begin to integrate by trying some sequence videos. The gentle morning sequence is an nice one to start. Also- I will have more beginners sequences coming up. Send questions or feedback my way any time! Breathe deep.
Oh so good to hear. I had joint pain as a young person too. I was even prescribed an arthritic medicine my first year in college. Now I don't have any trouble and I don't take any medicine!!
Poses like this one help me to remember that its all connected. All one part. So it's not just the hammies - its all connected, lower back, etc. You softened your knees and found that tall spine- AWESOMEEEEE! In time we work with integration of breath to straighten the legs and hold them in the shape while moving the breath. So awesome! I love this comment! (also the benefit of breaking down the poses one by one!)
I am loving these "old" videos - same old you, Adriene!
Starting all your videos from the beginning - these simple videos are so helpful - and I’ve always wanted to know the story or reason behind the name of all these poses - thanks adriene❤
I absolutely love you're Foundations of Yoga serious! They really help me get "in tune" with my body. I often don't even realize how tight I am in an area until I delve deep into a pose w/ one of your videos! Thank you so much!
Adriene, I am a marathon runner who has been through a LOT of physical trauma over the last three years. These traumas have sidelined my running. Each time I try to go out and run, I hurt my lower back. SO, I'm working my way through your Foundations series and "blogging" about it over on Facebook. With a 1 year old and 3 year old, and the achy body, these workouts are PERFECT for me right now. Thank you!
Most definately a challenging pose. But seeing progress, so i feel amazing! 😊
Thank you Adriene! I have struggled with this pose for many, many, many years. Your instructions really helped me to FINALLY EXECUTE THIS POSE. For this, I am forever grateful to you.This morning, I finally did my first staff pose. What a blessed gift!
Loved the video :)...easy postures are the most difficult if you think about it...because they force you think what else yoga can mean to you apart from mastering poses and showing off to your friends...lmao!
They also teach us that we need not to always go so hard on ourselves and our lives in order to bring joy in our lives :)
Hi Adriene ! Just wanted to say thank you ! I'm trying to do yoga on a more regular basis and your videos really help. A foundation video + sun salutations every morning is what gets me going so far ! Thank you :)
I've just done the first six videos of the "foundations" serie, and it was so great. I love to really explore all the poses, in details. You really are an amazing teacher, thank you !
Hi! You should never have to take a breather but rather slow down and make sure you are breathing in the postures. Always. Goal number one. Also- if you are going slow and breathing in the postures then you should not have to stretch before yoga but rather let the yoga be the stretching. Again, take it slow. Its hard to slow down sometimes :) But you are worth it! Start slow, ease in, breathe, stretch it out- and repeat! XOOX
Hey Adriene! Love the video. I've just started my yoga practice (last week! I'm on day 7 of 30 days of yoga with Adriene), and I was really struggling with this pose until you pretty much read my mind about my back sticking out. I folded my mat twice and it was a completely different pose for me, thanks! Keep up the great work!!
I've been going through your videos from the first one you posted and I'm loving them. You explain everything in a really simple yet detailed way I find your videos very easy to follow. Yoga is quite new for me, I used to be a dancer so I'm using yoga to keep my flexibility and strength up to scratch. Thank you so much for your videos I'm looking forward to making my way through the rest of them.
I love this! Thank you for guiding me/us through this challenging pose/posture. While it looks "easy," doing it properly IS challenging. You always make me smile! Namaste!!
Adriene, your videos are fantastic! I would like to thank you for making them. I can't afford Yoga classes right now and this is the only channel I've found that I can truly work with. Big props on the fundamentals videos that permit to understand each pose in depths in your body which I didn't get when I started Yoga a couple of months ago. I feel like when I go back to a class I'll know my body better, the poses better and will be able to find the right teacher! Xo
Thank you so much for this series! It is a great lesson in mindful movement or maybe posture is a better word:) To be zen-ed out is not to be mindless about your body and it's place in the universe, so to speak. I guess it is focus on your body and what you need from it and what it needs from you. Thanks again, Adriene:)
Adriene is looking extra glowy and beautiful in this video! Much love :)
Hi Adriene. My surname is Staff, so thank you for teaching me my pose!
Wow! After watching this video I am really feeling it. What a great pose. Thank you Adriene! :)
Wow I have always found this pose so difficult, despite making progress in other areas of my yoga. It's interesting to read others feel the same. I think it's a symptom of sitting at a desk for too long. This reminds me to carry yoga throughout my day - always connecting the crown of the head to tip of the tail bone and remembering not to slouch!
Brillz. Brilliant!
Wow! This is a hard pose. My lower back really wants to round out. I guess I need to try to sit on a cushion. At the age of 57, I'm trying yoga for the first time. I've been at it for about 2 weeks. I'm very inflexible and stiff with terrible posture but these videos are changing my life...I can feel my spine lengthening already. Thanks, Adrienne!
Love the foundations of yoga videos because I learn so much about the poses that make up practices
so good for the back, the abdomen, the legs, the whole body in fact !! Thanx
Yoga is a really interesting way to learn what muscles you use regularly. I work in a stock room, so forward fold is no problem. But this is harder than downward dog for me! I think I've found my next challenge of a pose to focus on here...
The way you explain things is just great! :)
I really struggle with this pose. Getting a lot of tension in the hips, spine and shoulders. Bending the legs did help however. Just wondering how do I start to journey my legs downward?
I'm having the exact same problem!
Thanks to you I'm discovering yoga! And this pose is indeed far more difficult than it looks! As a beginner I have a question: where are you supposed to feel tension if you do the exercise well? I feel it in my legs, but also very heavily in my back... thanks!
Fantastic!!! That is a perfect visualization with the stick holding up the spine. 🙏🏽
love u mam
u are great
i learnt lots of yoga stuff from your youtube videos
namastaye
u are my yoga guru
This pose is challenging for myself, I never seem to welcome it in class and it’s never comfortable,.
Thank you for breaking it down, now it’s easier to navigate through the motions, and much more fun 😊
Extremely beneficial and helpful!
🙏
Love u Adrienne you are a good teacher , loving your videos
Hello Hi Adriene!!
Your videos have been my guide to learning Yoga and I love them. You are a fantastic instructor and I really enjoy all your little quirky moments. Gracefully and grandly movie quote from A League of Their Own original movie was awesome. Made me immediately think, "Eyebrows, there should be two. Thin and separate." LOL
Love your videos. Thank you for doing what you do.
It's hard to keep my back straight with my legs straight like that for some reason
Thank you Adriene. I love you and I love the foundations of yoga. Namaste! :)
Thanks for all your work and effort making these lessons. I really enjoy them.
That is a GREAT question! They are on the way! Foundation poses will continue and you will start seeing more sequences with advanced poses. Thanks for the feedback. I will bump and arm support up to the top for you! Lets start with "crow" so beginners can have some fun too! Sound good? xo
Hi Adriene. I'm happy to learn the basic pose like Dandasana from you. Also I understand that the basic is too important.And Shiva Rae, She is wonderful. Thank you.
I was like 6 min, it's gonna be easy. I couldn't even made until 3. Min.
Definitely needs practice, like Adrienne said, so much more than meets the eye.
Adriene, thanks for your explanation on Staff Pose very clear.
Fantastic ..the way you explain ..!!!
Yoga is a practice evolved in India & i am an Indian. It was very soothing to hear it all from you
Love from India
xoxo
This is one of the most challenging poses for me. I came here from the yoga tips for a healthy posture! I'm leaving half moon for tomorrow and finishing my practice with a cobblers pose. I just find that having my legs and my back straight at the same time is sooooo difficult. I even started sweating!!!
I find this pose so satisfying for some reason!
It's always good to relearn foundations.🙏
Thank you so much for this! I always come back to this pose. It's the hardest for me. One day I'll have my legs straight.. Until then, thank you for helping me to sit tall!
Felt it wonderfully on my back. Thank you.
Day 184 (part 2) of the current run. Super difficult for me to sit up straight while doing this. Using a blanket helped, I might try with my back against the wall as well?
I really wish that you make a new foundations of yoga with more inputs. It'll be really helpful, thank you so much🙏
Love this explanation for staff pose!
Hi Adriene! I love your detailed explanations! That helps a lot :) When will you start doing some of the more advanced posed, like arm support poses? Thanks
I'm 14 and I have arthritis and your videos are helping me with my joints
I am a yogi/runner. Anything in staff pose is a challenge (seated forward fold, etc...). Hoping one day this is an easy pose. ...and I have been practicing yoga (on & off) for 20+ years.
Love Hatha yoga!! Great strong pose ^_^ staff pose really helps me with my lower body and building strength in the center sacral point of gravity AAHHAHA.
I exercise my legs regularly with weightlifting and hikes and this pose just made me shake like a leaf in the wind
Wow this is ageless, is more ways than one. But I found this to really allow my awareness to open chest, lift heart and it made me get a good stretch and release of tight pecs, which tend to draw my clavicles too tight and restrict my breathing (my tightness does), but this practice for dundasana allowed the lift and stretch and lengthen, so it released and allowed me to breathe as I sat up straighter in alignment.
i felt a lot of discomfort in my middle and upper back while doing this pose.... i wonder if that proves how much i am used to slouching during the day :/
Thank You you have changed my life
This one really got me in the front of the hips!!
I felt it in my quads the whole time. Am I doing something wrong. Completely new to yoga thanks you for your concise instructions
Nope, not just you; it just takes much more muscle engagement than you'd think from looking at it. 🙂
Love this asana !!❤️
Very useful & nicely explained
Its so much trickier than it looks!
This is hard! Beginner here
That is really challenging for me !!
I need so much practice with this one ow
Love
Thanks so much! i ride a bike for transportation and my hamstrings are always too tight, so poses like this need a little special attention.
Thank you for this great video. Namaste 🙏
Hi Adrienne, it normal for this pose to tingle and almost stretch/hurt upper glutes and lower back. I honestly can't tell if I'm doing it wrong or if that's my body experiencing something new?
don't get this with bent knees but straight knees I do. what do you think?
Keep connecting ☺️ Namaste 🙏🏻
thanks for this vid this pose was challenging evenntho it looks easy how long should I hold this pose I need to increase flexibility in my lower back and hamstrings and this pose I had to bend my knees a lil to bend forward thanks so much
Allo Adriene, and thank you SO very much for sharing these videos with us!! I am a total newbie and really enjoy learning and practicing with your calm, gentle, informative guidance (I'm working my way through the Foundations series.). I cannot straighten my legs and keep my back straight, so I appreciate you mentioning the bent-knee modification. Do you have any recommendations for increasing leg flexibility?? ( I realize I'm posting a question on a much older video, but I'm hopeful you can help!)
Hi! A regular yoga practice in general will increase your flexibility, but you can also try this Yoga For Flexibility - ua-cam.com/video/Yzm3fA2HhkQ/v-deo.html
You are the best🌹
I find that although I'm pretty flexible, sitting straight up with my legs straight is really challenging. I feel a lot of tightness in the front of my hips and like I need a lot of support to pull the spine up straight. I'm going to try this pose more frequently. Any other tips?
Lol, so random (and maybe fun fact): When I learned the name from you of this asana from for the first time, I was like...why is there an asana called "punishment pose?" And then when I did it, it really felt punishing all up in the back (also, I was trying to crank my poses like Soulja Boy back then too). I was like..this doesn't make any sense..why would yoga have a pose named like this?!! But later when you explained this was "stick pose" I was like (to myself) ohhh, "danda" not "dand", the latter meaning punishment or chastise. But yeah, this pose is mad challenging but also the most rewarding as I can feel a lot of hip release in my lower back. This was probably one of the stretches that helped me finally be able to do nice, long side body stretches without back spasms anymore.
While I'm on the mat, I guess I can start today's practice then. Lol 🙏
keep my feet pointing upright whilst turning my thighs inward? did I get that bit right? because it ain't as easy as it looks lol, great videos btw 😊
omg young Adriene !
Ahh this kills my hips and low back! I'm SO tight in those areas! Ouch! How often and for how long should we practice each pose?
This is actually one the most difficult asanas for me, but it gets easier
Usualy on the harder postures like pigeon pose i have to stop and take a breather, is that ok? And do you have to stretch before doin yoga?
whenever I do yoga poses, particularly sitting down poses, I have an odd pain (kinda) in my upper back. I guess that's from slumping at the computer everyday. But I just don't feel aligned, I feel like I'm resting on my lower back rather than my glutes, and when I try to straighten that pain kicks in.
Thanks a lot for your videos! Have a question about this pose: it’s hard to press down with heels and lift up from the low back upwards at the same time. My legs start to shake a lot, strong vibration. And the breath is not so smooth because of it. Do you have a recommendation?
I find staff pose really difficult to maintain a straight back. Will have to keep at it! Hopefully as my back strengthens this unease will go away.
Since breaking my back and having surgery coming back to yoga has been a struggle. Any sitting posture that engages the spine really hurts the muscles in my back. Specifically right below my shoulder blades. Any suggestions? Because these "easy" poses are pricing to be very painful.
Will u teach our children.. .. i am waiting..
Namaste.
Hiya, I find my lower back aches when I’m doing this. Any suggestions on what to do to help? Thanks
It just looked like sitting at first! But I totally felt my thighs engaged when pressing them "into the earth."
Cool :)
Hi Adriene, when I hold this pose my upper back and shoulder blades hurt and I feel the need to roll my neck and curve my back. I sometimes have upper back pain (in my regular routines, not yoga) and I know I don't have the best posture. But is that normal for my upper back/shoulder blades to hurt during this pose? Should I continue doing it to work on improving my posture? Thank you!
Trying to do this then forward fold, especially wide-legged, I just can't seem to keep my back straight. One day I really worked to do that and ended up waking up the next day with a bad back. With a block it's a little easier but I just continue to feel my lower back bending forward. Not sure how to improve this. I'm guessing it's a core strength thing.
I absolutely suck at this pose, I can't seem to sit in this position without shaking. My hamstrings are super tight, my calfs are super tight, I get the mentioned caving in my abdomen and my lower back is tight. What do I need to do to progress with this?
soooo helpful
I think actually just did this pose correctly for the first time. with upper body nice n tall i couldn't hold my legs straight! my hamstring too tight..?