"Keep your elbows in!!" Your teacher shouts at you for the fifth time in class. You signed up to learn Crow pose, but you're starting to question whether you accidentally wandered into Army Bootcamp instead.

"Keep your elbows in!!" Geeeez, elbows in! Got it! You set up for the pose, hug the elbows ...

Tadasana is one of those yoga poses that's easy to ignore. Nobody's lying awake at night thinking, "Man, I really need to nail my Tadasana."

You stand there, feet on the floor, arms by your sides or hands together at your chest. Seems simple enough.

But Tadasana is more important than it looks.

T...

"No way I can do arm balances!! I can't even do a proper Chaturanga. I just sort of... collapse halfway down."

I get this one a lot.

Someone wants to learn arm balances, but they've decided they need to master Chaturanga first... as if there's some yoga committee handing out arm-balance licences a...

Every time someone tells me they can't step their foot between their hands because they have short arms, I want to ask...

"Who told you that?"

Because it's one of those yoga myths that just keeps getting repeated.

Somewhere along the way, "You have short arms" became the go-to explanation for any...

You already have Crow Pose. You know how to balance on your hands. You know how to bring your knees onto your arms and find that little moment where your feet stop feeling quite so attached to the floor.

Then you try One-Legged Crow.

You bring one knee onto your arm, start shifting forward, and su...

You've done thousands of poses. Maybe tens of thousands. But here's a question worth sitting with: do you actually know what's happening inside them?

Most of us learn yoga shape by shape. Down dog, warrior, pigeon, repeat.

Eventually, you hit a ceiling where you've been practicing for years but so...

If you're in the tight upper body club, there's a good chance Eagle arms feel like a practical joke.

The teacher cheerfully says, "Wrap your arms," and somehow everyone around you manages to stack their elbows, intertwine their forearms, and press their palms together.

Meanwhile, you're standing t...

If you've ever been in class and your teacher cues you to move from Warrior 1, to Warrior 2, to Crescent Pose in three breaths flat, you’ve probably noticed something…

No one tells you what to do with your feet.

Teachers talk about “opening your hips” or “cartwheeling your arms,” but the foundatio...