Do Your Knees Hurt in Hero Pose?

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hello Yogi's are you doing your hero pose wrong but may not even know it complacency can be a killer in this posture or maybe you never really learn hero right the first time regardless of the reason we are going to examine the three biggest mistakes in our hero pose and how to fix them hello magnificent human beings my name is Landon slaughter helping you discover a fun and consistent at-home yoga practice let's take a short journey through our hero pose examines some of the biggest mistakes and how we can fix these issues let's get started right meow mmm listen honey you're not JLo your butt is not that big oh you know I've been hitting those squats gotta put my feet way out so I can clear some of this badonkadonk Oh hurts my knees well of course your knees hurt because your butt just isn't that big you may be surprised to find that even after you come back in this pose you may be able to bring your feet a little closer together to lessen some of the tension in your knees lots of people see a yoga instructor doing hero pose and say wait my but between my heels yeah my knees don't bend a side-to-side like that technically you're right your knees do not Bend side to side like that but here is the big secret think about the inward rotation of your thighs as you rotate this leg inward even more than bending that knee back appears to be out to the side when in reality it's still just behind you yes yoga can help to bring certain parts of your body back into alignment but not at the cost of pain and suffering oh my god my knees hurt so bad right now what if it's supposed to be like this and I'm just gonna suffer I mean the Buddha said life is suffering okay well if you're talking about the Buddha then that's Buddhism and this is yoga which is never mind let's just fix this if you've heard your yoga teacher say know the difference between pain and discomfort hero poses arguably one of the best poses to test this in know the difference between whether it's pain in your knees or slight discomfort blocks can help this a lot to slowly come back a little bit more and d-level the block as you deepen if you are not already a subscriber please