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How is your yoga squat?

Do you squat often? :)

🧡What “malasana” or squat pose can tell us about our bodies.🧡

Most of us hold tension in the back, shoulders, lower back or hips or all of the above.

We all have different body proportions, joint structures, strengths, weaknesses, areas of tension, and areas of mobility.

But by looking at malasana, you can learn more about your body’s limitations and strengths, and then use this information in your yoga practise.

Let’s face it, when we don’t live in a culture where squatting is part of everyday life, malasana can feel really weird at first. It can take a long time to feel comfortable in it.

However, we perform squatting motions everyday (getting up out of a chair, sitting down in a car, or picking something up off the floor), so this pose is extremely relevant.

Unfortunately, in Western society, our reliance on chairs, together with poor postural habits, has made malasana more and more challenging.

Have you ever noticed how babies have perfect malasana/squat form? When did we lose this ability? And how do we gain it back?

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✅First, let’s try malasana in front of a mirror.
✅ Bring your feet slightly wider than hip-width apart, and turning your toes out slightly.
✅ Now sit your hips as far down as you comfortably can. Your heels might lift a bit, and that’s okay. Try to keep them down, but don’t force them.
✅ Bring your elbows inside your knees, press your palms together, use your elbows to draw your knees apart, and lengthen your spine.
✅ Depending on your torso length, your elbows may fall higher or lower on the inner thighs. You might feel like you’re going to fall over backward.

Have a look at the posture..
How does it feel?
Are your heels lifted?

In order to lower the heels, we sometimes compensate with the ankles by allowing the arches to collapse and the toes to turn out too much. Compensating like this means tightness in the hamstrings, hip rotator and weakness of the glutes.

If your back arches too much, you have have tight hip flexors compensating for a weak core.

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