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
>
>
>


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