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Dandasana (Staff Pose): The Groundwork Of All Sitting Pose

It would be impossible to give you any satisfactory answer as you have given no indication of your age, gender and health conditions / problems, if any. As a rule, this is a rather easy asana (yoga pose) and unless you have a wrist or lower back injury, you should have no problems doing it. In fact, Dandasana (Staff Pose) is considered the groundwork of all sitting poses, in particular the twists and forward bends.

Easy Way To Do Dandasana (Staff Pose)

However, we can help make Dandasana (Staff Pose) easier for you; just practice the pose intelligently. To start with, stop worrying about having to bend your spine. Frankly, no, it isn’t normal. And yet, not abnormal enough to warranty concern of any sort. Try and give yourself some support with a few folded Yoga blankets beneath your buttocks.   This puts less pressure on the hamstrings and, thus, calls for even less flexibility. In the bargain, it lets you to relax in the posture more easily.

What happens is that, in so doing, the amount of flexion required to keep your trunk at right angles to your mat is decreased. One of the best lessons you learn by doing Dandasana (Staff Pose) is how to feel the contact of the back of your legs against your mat. In doing this pose you will be grounding your femurs into your mat by pressing the back of your knees into it. This is important in almost all sitting poses that you first get to learn in Dandasana (Staff Pose). However, if you take support of any sort beneath your buttocks, you will not be able to touch your mat with the back of your legs.

Since you really need it, you may use this essential support beneath your buttocks. But later, we suggest you try reducing the height of the support and try doing the pose without support. You may be reluctant to start, given the convenience and ease that the support renders. Even so, despite the possibility of a little discomfort in your lower back, we suggest that after a few weeks you try reducing the height of the support such as from four folds to three, from two to one and then zero.

The 3 most important things in Dandasana

• To push the thighs down into your mat

• To raise your spine and trunk up as much as you would in Tadasana (Mountain Pose)

• To stretch your arms to the fullest

All the other movements of the pose are, in essence, just intended to enhance these actions. So keep at it and you are bound to achieve the desired results in a short time. Just stop worrying and do the pose in a relaxed fashion concentrating on normal breathing.

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