Common Yoga Poses Female Celebrities Do Wrong, How to Do Them Correctly?
When it comes to the Tree Pose, people who have taken yoga classes are all familiar with it. It doesn't belong to the difficult yoga postures, and even it's not considered a 'difficult' posture. However, for yoga beginners, it's not easy to do it well. Many female celebrities love to do Tree Pose, and we can see their beautiful photos practicing it. But if you observe them carefully, you will find that their Tree Poses are not the same. Some of them are even doing it wrong.
Liu Yan and Lin Zhi Ling have demonstrated their Tree Poses, they put their raised legs on the knees of the supporting leg. This is actually a common mistake in the Tree Pose. Our knee joints mainly function to bend, and for forces coming from the side, there are no related muscles to counteract them. Long-term practice will damage the knee joints.
Let's take a look at Icebing Li's Tree Pose, she also seems to put her raised leg on the knee joint, but if you observe carefully, you will find that she doesn't put her foot on the knee joint, but relies on the muscles of the raised leg to stabilize directly, this is not a problem.
Sun Li's Tree Pose is to put the raised leg on the root of the supporting leg, this position is the recommended position in the standard yoga Tree Pose. Therefore, we can see that just the placement of the raised leg has certain requirements. Let's take a detailed look at how to do the Tree Pose correctly, and what common mistakes should be avoided?
The following are the steps to practice the Tree Pose:
- Mountain Pose, bend the right knee, the right knee opens to the right side
- Use the right hand to place the right foot on the inner top of the left thigh, try to get closer to the perineum, the toes of the right foot point downwards
- Use the force of the left foot to step down, straighten the left thigh, tighten the thigh muscles, the right foot and the left thigh counteract each other, maintain the stability of the body's center of gravity
- Raise both arms above the head, hands clasped together, shoulders relaxed, eyes look straight ahead
- Exhale, the right foot lands, lower the arms, switch to the other side to practice
As people follow the practice steps, they still make mistakes because there are many details involved, the practice steps are not explained, let's explain them in detail.
1, Instability
Instability is one is a lack of balance sense, two is a lack of thigh strength or not learned to exert force.
A lack of balance sense can be achieved by practicing mountain pose alternately crossing the legs, that is, the center of gravity comes to the left leg, the right leg is slightly away from the ground, then drop down, the center of gravity comes to the right leg, the left leg is slightly away from the ground, repeating the practice can cultivate the balance sense.
Thigh strength can be enhanced through a period of practice, if you haven't learned to exert force, you need to correct it. To stabilize the supporting leg, we need to activate the outer and inner muscles of the thigh, stabilize the pelvis, and the supporting leg can be stable.
2, The raised leg cannot be placed on the thigh bone
This is usually due to the hip muscles around the hip being too tight, limiting the external and internal rotation of the hip joint. This may require some opening hip exercises. This is not the focus of the Tree Pose, if you can't do it, just lower the raised leg to reduce the difficulty.
3, The hip is not aligned
After the raised leg, many people's hips are not aligned, which needs to be paid attention to. You can use a wall or lean against a chair to consciously adjust. When we practice yoga postures, we can temporarily not do it, and lower the difficulty to practice, but don't repeat the wrong practice all the time.
4, The spine is not extended
The Tree Pose requires our body to stretch like a tree towards the sky, this requires our spine to be fully stretched, don't bend or twist your waist.
Shoulder blades squeeze towards the midline, chest opens, spine extends towards the sky.
