Yoga Teacher's Companion #30: Everything You Need to Know About Practicing & Teaching Pigeon Pose

Learn the best way to practice, teach and troubleshoot one of Yoga's most important hip openers: Pigeon Pose. In this episode, Jason breaks down the Yoga Anatomy of this essential hip-opener and shows you reliable ways to troubleshoot the knee discomfort that some students experience in this pose.
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Video Highlights
:01 Overview of Episode
:42 Essential Yoga Anatomy Course Overview
1:27 The Anatomy of Pigeon Pose
6:46 Aligning the Front Hip and Knee
8:20 Aligning the Front Shin
10:44 How to Manage Knee Discomfort in Pigeon
16:25 How to Set Up 90 / 90 Sit
16:32 How to Practice 90 / 90 Sit
ABOUT JASON:
Jason Crandell is a natural teacher and author with more than 20 years of experience. Named “one of the teachers shaping the future of yoga,” by Yoga Journal, Jason has been an in-demand teacher at conferences around the world for more than two decades.
For the past 10 years, Jason has honed his approach by looking to peers outside of the yoga community, in the fields of physical therapy, orthopedics, and sports medicine. These collaborative partnerships have enabled Jason to offer the most up-to-date to asana technique, cueing, injury management, and hands-on adjustments. Jason’s goal is to blend the timeless wisdom of yoga philosophy with evidence-based information to create yoga curriculum that helps modern practitioners grow and evolve.

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Your use of the skeleton really helps me understand your point about the same plane. Very helpful. Thank you, Jason!

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[@elisabethmcglone]

Thank you so for this video. I started to have pain in my knee so it was difficult to do the pigeon pose but with your help I can do something sensible 😃. This is so helpful

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Thank you so much! Just a week ago I've instinctively adjusted one of my students for 90/90 instead of pigeon when he said it was impossible for him to straighten his back leg. Having this information is life changing ❤

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[@shawnbrow2844]

Thank you Jason! Great info, and reflective of my personal journey of 'aging with pigeon'. I would love to hear your input regarding propping of the hip/lateral shin (front active leg) in terms of maintaining femoral-tibial congruency. In the past I used a blanket for this purpose, however have discovered that riding a bolster, (think: Hanumanasana over a bolster) offers a comfortable off-loading for my aging, knee weathered students.

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