I have noticed some teachers will instruct to keep your heels together in cobra pose and others don’t. I’ve been called out before for this in class, but it seems no matter how hard I try I just can’t get my heels to touch. Its not as if my feet are inches apart, my toes are pointed and touching, just not my heels. I am wondering if this is something that speaks to poor alignment on my part or if some peoples bone structure just doesn’t allow it.
If it is important, I have recently been instructed during other poses to keep my heels together (most notably standing breathing, half-moon and Paschimotthanasana). I had no problem adjusting to keeping my heels together in the standing poses, but paschimotthanasana is still hard for me to do with heels together. It seems to access a different stretch, which in turn doesn’t allow me to pull my upper body as low as I’m used to, as well as being somewhat painful (but not alarmingly slow, more just uncomfortable) and sometimes causes one of my hips to kind of pop in and out of where its supposed to be.
