I’m having some ongoing wrist pain in salabhasana that is making it difficult to do the pose.
I get into the pose by bringing my knees forward to lift my hips (which seems to help me position my arms given that I have a pretty large chest) and then walking them back. I manage to get my pinkies probably a couple inches apart, but if I spread my fingers they touch. I’d guess my hands are a couple inches above my knees. I am still working on being able to have even pressure on the surface of my palms–tend to feel a bit more weight around the wrists and thumb-side edges of the palms.
The right side of the posture is fine. It’s the left side and the bringing the legs up that’s a problem. The pain I have is in the left forearm, the part that is in contact with my hip–as soon as I extend and lift the left leg and the hip pushes down into my arm, it hurts, so much so that I am reluctant to go further into the posture OR I start using the right leg more for support. It doesn’t seem to be going away with time–I am about 70 classes into a 101-day challenge. After class that spot feels a little tender, but it doesn’t actually hurt.
Is there some way to adjust this and deal with this problem?
