![]() ![]() At the end of the day you are the only one who can feel what is going on in your body, and whether something feels right or wrong. Think of your yoga teacher’s cues as mere guidelines, and remember to listen to your own body. Start tuning into your body and explore the pose and notice how it feels. This means we work more with each individual body and explore the pose and how it feels rather than thinking we should all have our hands and feet in the exact same place in a pose. It is more about working with ‘functional alignment’ instead of ‘universal alignment’. Now, this is not to say we should just dismiss alignment altogether. To assume we should all look the same in a pose is unintelligent, and instead of working with the body we are working against it. Both are doing the pose equally correct, and they are working with the body they have. Others, however, may have less open hips, an injury or something else that prevents them from easily folding forward. Some people have very open hips, and folding forward in the pose will be like the most natural thing in the world for these people. Take the yoga butterfly pose for instance. We each come with our own story, and to think we can (and should) all look the same in a pose is simply delusional, and it will not lead to anything good. We all have unique bodies with different ranges of mobility, flexibility, and strength. There is no such thing as ‘universal alignment’. ![]() No, we do not believe that is ‘good alignment’, and we don’t believe that you should ever strive to make a pose (any pose) look a certain way. If you have been practicing yoga for some time chances are you have heard at least one teacher talking about ‘good alignment’ but what is ‘good alignment’? Is it copying a picture you have seen in a book or on Instagram? Is it having every student in the room looking the exact same in any given pose? Should we all strive for the same aesthetic ideal? Butterfly position full#A great prep pose for bound/supported headstand is dolphin pose, so having a strong foundation in dolphin helps with feeling confidence in the full inversion.Before we dive deeper into the yoga butterfly pose we would like to take a moment to talk a bit about alignment in general, yoga teachers facilitating a space where students can tune in and listen to their bodies, and students taking responsibility for their own body and yoga practice. Butterfly position free#If headstands make you nervous, feel free to use a wall for support until you’re ready to invert on your own. If you’re more comfortable in a tripod headstand, come into that variation and then arrange your legs into butterfly.
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