Listen and subscribe on your favorite platform, or listen below.

Yoga teacher Jenni Rawlings and Exercise Science professor Travis Pollen discuss a selection of yoga alignment cues that don't make sense! These cues all have one thing in common: they are each used inconsistently across similar (or the same) positions. By examining these carefully-chosen examples, we gain insight into whether or not these cues are actually important. And we improve our ability to think critically about the information we’re taught!

Yoga alignment rules covered in this episode include:

Stack the shoulder over the wrist in plank pose
Stack the shoulder over the wrist in side plank pose
Don’t let the feet turn out in wheel pose
Don’t jump back to straight-arm plank pose; instead, jump into bent-elbow chaturanga
Don’t transition from closed-to-open hip poses or vice versa
Don’t place your foot on your inner knee in tree pose
Ground your inner hands down in down dog
Internally rotate your hips in forward folds
Catch the outer ankle in bow pose

Enjoy this engaging and eye-opening discussion for yoga, movement, and fitness geeks!

Become a supporter of the Yoga Meets Movement Science podcast! Starting at $3/month.