From the Kay Erdwinn’s Post Teaching Yoga for Round Bodies This is another asana that my neck protests, so I myself don’t practice it. The main problem(s) for the fat person would probably be once again getting the elbows in enough to provide the necessary leverage, plus the sheer amount of weight that must be supported by the arms/wrists, which is … Read More

From the Kay Erdwinn’s Post Teaching Yoga for Round Bodies The only real problem here for some fat people is the need to keep the legs together. I don’t think the student risks injury if s/he has a slightly wider stance, but it does tend to decrease the feeling of the body being in a smooth, compact crescent-moon arc — … Read More

From the Kay Erdwinn’s Post Teaching Yoga for Round Bodies Ugh! Just where is the fat in my tummy, chest and thighs supposed to go in this asana?! Let alone the air from an inhalation? Child’s Pose is often taught as a “reprieve” from a difficult asana — a real “milk and cookies pose.” For the fat person, it is … Read More

From the Kay Erdwinn’s Post Teaching Yoga for Round Bodies In this asana, the fat student may have difficulty snagging the heels behind him/her without twisting and leaning back, which is clearly potentially hazardous for the lower back. The modification wherein the student places his/her hands on the upper back rim of the pelvis, then performs the backward bend, is usually … Read More

From the Kay Erdwinn’s Post Teaching Yoga for Round Bodies The difficult part of this asana for the fat student is the position of the arms and putting the hands together under the back. I simply have the student hold a strap taut between the hands, and otherwise perform the asana as usual. Breathing may be difficult, especially for large-breasted women. … Read More

From the Kay Erdwinn Post Teaching Yoga for Round Bodies Entering this asana may require some extra “arranging” for the fat person. The arms and legs may need to be wider than with a thinner person. Mostly, though, fat is somewhat mobile (the jiggle effect that we so love in Jello, but for some reason hate in people… go figger), … Read More

From the Kay Erdwinn’s Post Teaching Yoga for Round Bodies Here’s another asana in which the abdomen gets in the way. A partial solution is to practice the variation with legs wide apart. One still has to turn the torso before bending over the knee, so some compression is inevitable. It’s easier than the standard, legforward version, however. A word … Read More

From the Kay Erdwinn’s Post Teaching Yoga for Round Bodies I don’t think this asana should be done any differently by fat people. Fat students need to pay special attention to not collapsing the underside of the rib cage because just the bending alone will restrict breathing somewhat. Also, since the torso of the fat person weighs more, s/he may be … Read More

From the Kay Erdwinn’s Post Teaching Yoga for Round Bodies As with Balasana, the thigh fat just doesn’t know where to go in this asana! Therefore, the fat student may not be able to sit on the heels at all. For some, however, especially midsized people, the trick I described for Balasana — rolling the muscle and fat on the calves and … Read More

From the Kay Erdwinn’s Post Teaching Yoga for Round Bodies I don’t teach this asana for the same reason as I don’t teach Halasana. However, the primary difficulty for a fat person in this asana comes in placing the hands on the back and the elbows close enough to the body to provide proper leverage. The strap-around- the-elbows strategy mentioned for Halasana … Read More