Why does the knee always deviate?

When practicing Warrior II, do you often hear the teacher's orders: turn your front foot 90 degrees outward, bend your knees with your front legs, and find the direction of your second toe or middle toe? But how many people can do it?

Toes can be turned 90 degrees outward, which is no problem, because even if our hip joints can't be opened, sometimes our knees and ankles can help. But the knee is in trouble. If you keep your pelvis in the middle, it will be difficult for your knees to find your toes.

For people with inflexible hip joints, their knees will deviate. But our members listened to the teacher and put their knees in the direction of toes. At this time, either the knees are twisted or the hips are offset.

This is what Bian Xiao always said: Yoga posture is not what you want, and the tension of body muscles limits your imagination! In Warrior II, the flexibility of adductor thigh directly affects whether the thigh can turn 90 degrees outward.

You can test yourself. How far can we go? Under the action of gravity, we actually walk more than usual. Only by touching the ground completely can you freely control the direction of your thighs in Warrior II.

Another test method: practice yoga tree to see if the raised legs can open 90 degrees outward on the premise of stable hips.

In fact, in Warrior II, not only the hip abduction ability limits us, but also the external rotation ability limits the advanced pose. The measurement method can be sitting posture or sitting posture angle.

Badha konasana

Corner seat

Did you find that many considerations in Warrior II also apply to other postures? Yes, many asanas are interlinked, but in different forms.