| You need to do some work to reawaken and strengthen to stabilize and support. So, now it's time to become a warrior. Not a 'week-end warrior' if you've been sitting around in that chair for a while, you need to build slowly. This pose, with wall support moves awareness into the working of the joint while using the muscles which articulate, rotate and stabilize. Standing in front of a wall, move your legs about 4 feet apart. Put your buttocks and heels against the wall then turn your right leg out, moving the heel forward as you rotate so that the foot is parallel to the wall, not up against it as your bottom sticking out in back, anyone's bottom for that matter, would throw the balance forward. Look at your knee, in all probability it is slightly rotated inward. Knees like to hinge but they don't like to rotate. Ask them to and they'll give you no end of trouble! So, lift the kneecap by pulling put through the quadriceps and pressing down through the big toe ball joint. Now you can bend the knee towards a right angle. Open your arms, put your hands against the wall and gently push, resist by standing firm and moving the right thigh back. Then release the pressure and spread your arms, gaze firm across the right index finger. This is a time for establishing your dominion. Stay about 5 breaths then release, then straighten the leg, turn your foot forward so that the feet are parallel and feel the effect. Repeat the pose one the other side but do it as if for the first time noticing the difference. This time when you finish turn your feet parallel and come to tadasana, legs hip distance apart, arms hang at your sides. HOME go on |
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| Virabhadrasana 2 |