Knee Safety in Hip Openers

My Yoga Online has posted a new Yoga Anatomy article by Dr. Robin Armstrong, Knee Safety in Hip Openers. This yoga anatomy article reviews the alignment considerations required to protect the knee when moving into hip opening yoga postures. With awareness to these essential biomechanical applications, one can readily avoid injury to the knee structures. This article is a great learning tool for yoga participants and for yoga teachers.

Remember the children’s song: With the leg bone connected to the knee bone and the knee bone connected to the thigh bone. This could be a yoga anthem worth chanting before class. Our bodies function as a whole, and no one action goes without a counter action, reaction, or complementary action in another part of our anatomy. This is especially important to remember when it comes to hip openers, which can unfortunately lead to the non-existent ‘knee opener’ which is yoga code for a painful and long recovery from an injury to our knee.

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