How to Get into Malasana (Deep Yoga Squat) with Grace

A video series to help you to figure out what is stopping you from Malasana (or the deep yogic squat known as "Garland pose" and hips to heels).

This post highlights a YouTube playlist – a collection of three videos – collectively titled "How to Get Into Malasana."

The first vide gives you the tools to analyze what is stopping you, the second video gives you drills for improving your ankle mobility in the deep squat, and the third offers you tips for handling hip pinchiness, or anterior hip impingement.

What’s Stopping You from Malasana (is it your ankles, knees, hips, back?)
Ankle Mobility for Deep Squats / Malasana
What to Do when Your Hips Pinch in a Deep Squat

Yogis can be pretty perplexed about what limits them when it comes to Malasana, Garland pose. This may be due to discomfort in the ankles, knees or hips, but with a little practice, the pose can be available to nearly everyone. As a highly functional position, perhaps it should be!

I have already written about this playlist fairly extensively over at YogaAnatomyAcademy.com, so definitely check out that blog post:

But these three videos deserve to be highlighted again, because this pose is so highly important as a gauge of joint health and functional strength:

Although these three videos are not a yoga asana practice, as many of the videos on my YouTube channel are, the knowledge within could help you to:

be more fluid within an asana practice that includes Malsasana,the deep squat yoga pose
Improve your functional joint range of motion, and
Incorporate more functional movement into your lifestyle

What’s Stopping You From Malasana / The Deep Yoga Squat (3 min)

Ankle Mobility Drills for Deep Squatting / Malasana

How to Handle Hip Pinching in Malasana / Deep Squat

As always, this video is for educational purposes, and is NOT a replacement for medical advice. If you have pain anywhere in your body, please see a physical therapist (physiotherapist), such as myself. I have a physical therapy center in Woodley Park neighborhood in Washington, DC directly across from the national zoo, and no prescription is needed. To go directly to the booking site, click https://wellilo.janeapp.com.

For those who have seen a physical therapist before without much to show for it: try a different one and try for more than 3 sessions. Nothing will replace skillful, hands-on, individualized care for your long term health. I offer up this video series for education only. There is no intention that it will supplement or replace actual physical therapy / physiotherapy or other medical advice.

Please let me know if you try the techniques and

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PROPS YOU’LL WANT:

2 Blocks, a blanket, a folding chair or countertop / barre

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A COMPLIMENTARY YOGA PRACTICE, WE RECOMMEND:

How to Get Your Heels to the Floor in Down Dog. This will really help to underscore the ankle mobility benefits.

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To learn more about yoga anatomy and what informs this kind of therapeutic teaching, please check out my 12 week, information-packed yoga anatomy mentorship by visiting https://www.yogaanatomyacademy.com.

Originally published- 11/10/2019

Categories: : Anatomy and Alignment, Yoga