Angelica GovaertOwner/Founder, Yogalebrity · Online Yoga Empire Builder

Yoga Teachers need to know more than just the yoga poses www.yogateachertraining.yoga

11 May 2023 · 1 min

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In this short instructional segment, Speaker A suggests adjustments for the butterfly pose when the knees cannot reach the floor. Speaker B clarifies that for many people the limitation is not muscle tension but bony compression—bones may contact each other, preventing further depth regardless of pressure. He differentiates sensations: pain behind the inner thigh indicates bone‑on‑bone contact, while pain in the inner thigh signals muscle tension, noting that about 30% of muscle tension is actually tight fascia. To address both, he recommends working fascia in a cool environment and muscles in a warm environment. The segment concludes with a promotion for private online yoga teacher instruction that goes beyond learning individual poses.

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If your butterfly looks like this and you can't get your knees down, then try these.
This is inaccurate for many people because the problem is not muscle tension, the problem is bony compression. Many yoga poses cannot be done by many people because of the way their bones are made. If you feel this pose back here behind your inner thigh where your leg meets your hip, then your bone is hitting your bone, which means no amount of pressure is ever going to bring that leg further down. If you're feeling it in your inner thigh, that is tension. It's muscle tension. 30% of muscle tension is actually tight fascia. We want to work both the fascia and the muscles. How do we do that? Fascia, we work in a cool room and a cool environment. Muscle, we work in a warm room with warm muscles. If you would like to learn more than just the yoga poses, check out my private instruction, Online Yoga Teacher