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Yoga Pose of the Week: Child's Pose

Posted on May 24th 2010 12:00PM by That's Fit Editors

Filed Under: Fitness, Yoga

Child's Pose is a great yoga pose to incorporate into your walking program. It opens up the knees and feet, as well as helping to release the lumbar spine.

For more yoga poses, visit our Yoga Center, or YogaWorks.com

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Kathy 5-30-2010 @ 5:21PM

OUCH!!! This KILLS my knees!!! How can they say it can help them?

carol 5-30-2010 @ 5:56PM

If this hurts your knees, it just means you need to proceed slowly until it gets comfortable. Over time your knees and your back will say Ahhhhhhh! Don't strain any joint but practice this every day and you will be amazed at how limber you become.
Namaste!

gloria 5-30-2010 @ 8:18PM

After bi-lateral knee replacement 7 years ago, I've lost a lot of flexibility.Therapy went well, but there's just so much it can do. Are there any yoga stretches that I can do that does not reqire me to get on my knees or squat?

chris 5-30-2010 @ 9:33PM

Yoga. Stretching with a big helping of BS thrwon in to make you think you're doing something other than just stretching. Sort of like chiropractors claiming all sorts of benefits from merely cracking your back and Reiki "masters" claiming to somehow redirect some unseen energy field when it's just a massage.

Koin 5-31-2010 @ 1:21AM

Chris,

You sound like a Medical Doctor, are you? You, obviously, have never tried Chiropractic Adjustments (or you tried it when you didn't need it) that is why you don't see the value of what they do. Maybe you should ask the patients who rely on them, such as myself, and see what they have to say! Tell the truth, Chiropractors are into "Preventative Medicine", and isn't that why medical doctors have a problem with them! Medical Doctor's can't treat a person unless they are sick! So if everybody is healthy that would put most of the doctors out of business, wouldn't it? There is the reason for the bigotry and prejudice against Chiropractor's by the Medical Profession?

Anne 8-20-2010 @ 7:02PM

This is ridiculous.....to imply that this excercise is good for the knees without qualifying that it is NOT a good idea for anyone with knee joint issues, is bizarre. Another so called "expert" on AOL.....really getting to be a joke. For people with osteoarthritis, this will be excruciating.