Pigeon Pose Foot Not Flat On The Floor

Bend your knees so that your feet are resting flat on the mat about hip width apart.
Pigeon pose foot not flat on the floor. Next slide your left leg back behind you and let your right thigh rest on the floor. Forward fold over both legs bending the left knee to bring both palms flat on the floor in front of you. Flexing your feet protects your ankles from overextending and thereby protects you from lax ligaments and future ankle strains and sprains. Hook your right foot strongly around your left upper arm.
This reclining pigeon variation opens the outer hips as a great warm up for the deep hip opening required in flying pigeon pose. How to fix it. Sit with your knees bent feet flat on the floor arms behind you for support. Lift your right foot from the floor and bring your right ankle to the top of your left thigh this position might be familiar from eye of the needle above.
The reclining or supine pigeon pose is down on your back providing your body with more support. Not flexing your feet to stabilize your ankles is a very common misalignment in double pigeon pigeon on your belly and also in flying pigeon. Bring your right ankle over your left knee keeping the foot flex. Lie on your back.
Tense neck and shoulders. Start by lying down on your back with your knees bent and your feet flat against the floor about hip distance apart. To do the pigeon pose in yoga start in downward dog and then raise your right leg and bring it forward placing it on the floor behind your left hand. Try the figure four version.
Walk your left foot closer to your hip to increase the stretch.