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Latest Yoga Anatomy Articles

Teaching Stages Of Ashtanga Yoga

Teaching The Stages Of A Life-long Ashtanga Practice

March 24, 2026
Teaching students how to shape the stages of their Ashtanga practice into a life-long relationship, not a static achievement, is essential.
shin parallel pigeon hip

What Happens In Pigeon Pose With The Hips Squared?

March 10, 2026
When you do pigeon with the hips squared, you create leverage for rotational force into the hip joint which stretches the lateral hip rotators.
Sustainable Ashtanga Practice

What Makes A Sustainable Ashtanga Practice?

February 26, 2026
Elements of a sustainable Ashtanga practice include using structure without rigidity, cultivating breath, awareness, and concentration. It requires developing comfort with the ambiguity of not knowing how our practice will unfold each day, and the agency to practice anyway.
Kapotasana On A Wall

Is It Helpful To Work With Kapotasana On A Wall?

February 3, 2026
To work with kapotasana on a wall, move closer to the wall. Send the hips forward and reach for the wall. Then, when your fingertips touch the wall, push away from the wall and send that energy and force into moving the hips forward as best you can.
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About David - Yoga Anatomy Presenter

david keil yoga anatomyThis website is about delivering yoga anatomy to the yoga community in a simple and understandable way. It has always been about you, the reader, understanding the complexity and diversity of our own humanness as well as our anatomy. We often interact with anatomy in two key places. The first is relative to injury, either in a preventative way, or after some type of injury has occurred. The second is when we want to do a particular asana, but can’t, and want to know why. In other words, you’re looking for the technique or anatomical restriction that limits your ability to do a pose. This is where yoga anatomy comes in. From this, we often want “the answer” to the problem or the injury. Unfortunately, there is often no single answer or simple solution. It is not my desire to simplify the anatomy or the yoga itself, that would be an injustice to the complexity and diversity of who we are physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Read More »