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I’ve practiced Bikram for many years and am recently having knee pain when trying to do the first few standing postures. “Sitting Japanese style” doesn’t hurt. How can I modify “hands to feet,” for example? I can’t grab my feet because slight bend in knees hurts. Similar problem with awkward and eagle poses. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Hello Patt56
I am sorry you’re feeling uncomfortable in your practice.
Can you please tell me if there is any other time that you feel the problem in your knees? In AND out of the yoga room?
Do you practise to a script recital class?
What EXACTLY are you doing the moment you first feel the problem?
What part of your knee is hurting? Be as specific as you can, please!!!
I am sure I can come up with suggestions. They can range from pose help to suggesting diagnostic assistance with a medical appointment. Let’s start with pose help.
For all pose help I will definitely need to ask a lot of questions. While you have practised for many years it would be very unwise for me to assume you do all the poses correctly or have great alignment. I can’t see you and so that’s why we’ll have to start with some basic questions.
It’s also possible that the problem may be in a different pose to the ones you imagine or spring from a dysfunctional movement issue.
You have issues with 3 poses so far! Do you think you’d be able to go back to each pose and describe exactly what happens. I need to make sense of it all in my head in order to help you.
Namaste
Gabrielle 🙂