A yoga teacher demonstrates how to cue Warrior 3 from Warrior 1, keeping the hips in internal rotation throughout. The key is transitioning between poses that use the same rotation pattern, which is biomechanically easier than switching between internal and external rotation.
This is your 1-minute yoga teacher training. Yoga teachers and aspiring yoga teachers, I'm going to teach you how I like to teach Warrior 3. It's very different from the way most people teach it, but it's challenging and it's fun. Warrior 3 is known as Virabhadrasana 3 in Sanskrit. Let's do it. Transitions are the hardest things for most yoga teachers to get. I'm going to teach this pose from Virabhadrasana 1. The reason why is because my hips are pointing forward. Always teach internal rotation poses within internal rotation poses versus external rotation poses. So externally rotated, it's going to be really hard to come into Warrior 3 from here. Internally rotated poses done with internally rotated poses are a lot easier to do. Um, ask your students to bring their hands to the heart center in Anjali Mudra. Turn the back foot into a runner's lunge. Bring the back foot slightly more forward and start to lean over the front
