Wrist pain in Downward Facing Dog usually means your weight is too far forward. Press your hips up, drive your heels back, spread your fingers wide, and look through your legs to shift the load away from your wrists.
Do your wrists hurt every time you go to yoga class? Well, I bet that you didn't know this is probably why. Chances are really good that your downward dog looks like this, so all of your weight is shifting forward. The first thing we're going to do is press our hips towards the sky, then we're going to press our heels towards the ground. Your feet do not have to touch the ground, the energy just needs to be moving backwards. You can see how that immediately shifted me back. Then I want to look through my legs instead of looking all over at everyone else's butt because that Shift the energy forward again. Look through my legs. Spread the fingertips wide and press into the ground. Voilà! Wrist pain no more. Light up that follow button for more yoga tips.
