“Shoulders away from your ears”, “melt your shoulders down”, “shoulder blades towards your hips”
Ahhhh, this is one of our favorite yoga cues!

And not because we agree with it, but because there are so many things to understand about it. However, once you see the illogic behind this cue, you will see how wrong we have been practicing arms-above-the-head poses.

Inga and I can spend hours talking about the mechanics of asanas, but today -in 15min- we’ll try our best to decode the non-sense behind this very common yoga instruction.