How to Practice and Teach Skandasana: Teaching Tips with Rachel

[@celestecosgrove7565]

So grateful to find this and you - definitely my nemesis pose because my heels lift, I tend to hyperextend my knees and now my left knee cannot handle deep flexion. I appreciate your "accessible" language and options! Back to the mat I go

[@RachelScottYoga]

Great to have you here, Celeste!!

[@tessclark-vi1vk]

Love your energy. I often include skandasana in my flows. Next time I will include layering these stages in warm up to get those still up high more comfortable and thinking how to get lower down. Thanks for sharing.

[@RachelScottYoga]

Awesome Tess! Nice to meet you here :)

[@martinecollins9001]

Just found your channel as I embark on a 200 hour YTT course at the ripe old age of 62! I absolutely love your energy and enthusiasm and your general awesomeness!😃

[@RachelScottYoga]

Martine! That is so awesome!! I am so excited for your YTT journey and commend you for diving in :) Enjoy the ride!!!! And glad to connect with you here!😀

[@KarinYogaLife]

Awesome Rachel! Didn't realize there were so many options to this pose. I teach it to my chair yoga ladies and they do it by holding onto the seat of the chair, basically doing option 1. Thanks for sharing!

[@RachelScottYoga]

😄👍🏻

[@erkameksen7481]

Very descriptive... It was nice of you to demonstrate everything by doing it yourself... Your energy transfers to me... Namaste

[@RachelScottYoga]

Erkam, I'm so glad!

[@MegaSmilexoxo]

Your tips are so valuable. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@RachelScottYoga]

My pleasure Eva ~ nice to have you here!!

[@isabelc.m9593]

love these videos you've been posting! super helpful for me as a Yoga teacher! thanks!!

[@RachelScottYoga]

Awesome to connect with you here Isabel 🥰🥰

[@chrisbeck5957]

Excellent!

[@flohoward7114]

Thanks for this! Great tips on how to progress gently to doing this pose. Could you add a side view to help us see the alignment of knee over ankle?

[@anansari9693]

Very detail good explanation❤

[@RachelScottYoga]

🙏🏻🤍

[@laraclementucci6507]

Always clear✨✨✨✨✨. Your videos are so nice and helpful to practice in a safe way….. thank you Rachel🙏🙏🙏❤️

[@RachelScottYoga]

😘😘😘

[@caro1591]

I’m always very wary about this pose but you have inspired me to go and explore it safely. 🙏🏻❤️

[@RachelScottYoga]

Awesome! I think it’s gotten a bad rap because it can get “tossed in”~ much more fun to play with the accessible versions ;)

[@caro1591]

@@RachelScottYoga Your tip to put the weight in the heels made a massive difference. 🙏🏻❤️

[@RachelScottYoga]

@@caro1591 👍🏻🙌🏻

[@WendyTubeYou]

Fabulous breakdown… great tips! I love this pose as a part of Chandra Namaskar! Thanks Rachel 🫶

[@RachelScottYoga]

Woo hooo! That would be a fun flow : )

[@proshatf7193]

Thank you sooo much! 🙌🏼💜💜💜 Great as always!

[@RachelScottYoga]

💛💛💛

[@laurengroch407]

So useful thank you. I attempted to teach this for the first time recently but we stayed pretty high which was where everyone was at. Will keep on it thank you so much 🤸🏽‍♀️

[@RachelScottYoga]

🙌🏻

[@Nadiau100]

Hi Rachel, I Love your videos and teaching...they are so informative and you break down the material so that is practical and usuable. Thank you for all your hard work and sharing this with us. I was just wondering with this pose about the possibility of twisting our knee...in an earlier video you mentioned about the importance of keeping the knee in a hinge motion/position...does tracking it over the ankle as you mention in this video take care of that? Is that why this cue is used here? Thank you

[@RachelScottYoga]

Hi Nadia! Great to hear from you - and EXCELLENT question! As a best practice for general cuing, I do prefer to track the knee in yoga. And YES! That is why I would cue that here. Also, sometimes we avoid stretch the calf or working ankle mobility by caving the knee (or b/c of outer hip weakness), so I think it's useful to try. That said and truth be told, our knees move in a variety of non-linear ways. The key is that there is no pain! :)

[@Nadiau100]

Thank you @@RachelScottYoga ! Great information. I was worried about the overuse/repetitive injury (the no pain now, but slow progression over time and then poof). So, as long as we track the knee ...we should be safe. I guess we could also cue, feel the stretch in your calf... I think this has sunk in now. Thank you very very much for your help.

[@adrianakemenyova1717]

❤

[@yogeshtyagi6307]

Very beautiful.

[@RachelScottYoga]

Thank you for watching! 😊

[@yogawithrai]

What if you bring rolled blanket under lifted heel ?

[@RachelScottYoga]

Yes! That can work, good solution~ I like that because you can still anchor heel into something ~