Warrior II is usually taught wrong. Align your front heel with your back foot's arch, keep your back foot parallel to open hips, and stack your torso, hips, and shoulders side to side. Most teachers miss the foot rotation and hip positioning.
More than any other yoga pose, this yoga pose is taught far and wide incorrectly by many yoga teachers. And that pose is Virabhadrasana 2. What is Virabhadrasana 2? It means Warrior 2. Grab your sword, I mean your yoga mat, and let's get started. We're going to start with our front heel in line with the arch of the back foot. Press into the outside of the back foot. Back foot is parallel to the back of the mat. Why is our back foot parallel? So that we can get our hips open. If you have that back foot rotated in, the hip has to come forward. And in Virabhadrasana 2, our hips are actually open. Bend your front knee, bring it over the front ankle. Our torso is going to face to the side of the mat, our hips are going to face to the side of the mat, and our shoulders are going to face to the side of the mat. We're going to take those shoulders, we're going to stack them on top of our hips so that everything is in line here. We're not forward, we're not back, we're right in the middle. Arms to the sides, your fingertips in line with each other. Make sure that front knee's bent directly over the front ankle. Distribute the weight on both feet. We'll turn our head and look at our
