Yoga for Knee Injuries

Knees are delicate joints that need love and attention! If you have a knee injury, yoga can help strengthen the stabilizing muscles around the knee and can create space in the tendons and the muscles surrounding the area.

Yoga is one of the best physical practices you can do with any injury because it allows you to choose, to be with your body in each pose and say yes or no according to what you’re feeling in that moment. And, for every pose, there are multiple alternate poses you can do instead that still do the same things as all the other poses!

It’s like if you were to get a menu at the beginning of class and throughout your yoga meal, you can pick anything you like. This yoga menu has an infinite number of pages and can be added to at any moment by YOU, the yoga practitioner. You can even make poses up and add them to the menu.

For my menu for knee injuries, I like the do the following. As always, if anything feels painful instead of sensational, don’t do it! Pick another pose. Make something up. Lie in child’s pose or savasana and breathe. All yoga is good yoga.

• To strengthen the muscles around the knee in a soft and easy way, try chair pose. You choose how deeply you bend, you choose if adding a twist will feel good, and you will (without much effort) strengthen all the muscles and tendons around your knee joint by just…