One of the (many) things I love about yoga is the many many different approaches to asana practice. Some of them work with my body, some of them don’t, but there really is something for everyone.
Take Virabhadrasana 1 for example (this pose came up in my twenty minute sequence the other day). This is a relatively modern posture, it certainly doesn’t pop up in any of the classical texts and as such there are many different approaches to it. This Yoga Journal article runs through five of the main ones. I tend to teach this posture in the Viniyoga tradition, like Gary Kraftsow in this article, but give them all a try and see which one works for you. I’d be interested to know!
There is also a potted history of the story behind the name of this posture.
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