Yogaland Podcast A Special Episode for Your Shoulders
Nov 10, 2025
Delve into shoulder health with insights on often-overlooked movements and essential mobility drills. Discover the importance of strengthening the latissimus dorsi and lower trapezius to stabilize your shoulders and alleviate neck tension. Learn techniques to incorporate lat pulls into familiar poses like Warrior II and Crescent, enhancing your practice. Get clarity on mobility versus flexibility and explore engaging scapular push-ups and locust variations. This episode ties together strength, mobility, and yoga for a holistic approach!
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Common Shoulder Imbalance In Yoga
- Yoga over-emphasizes front-of-shoulder pushes and neglects pull-down actions like lat and lower-trapezius work.
- Strengthening these pull muscles improves shoulder stability, scapular control, and overall shoulder function.
Use Imagined Resistance To Train Lats
- In standing poses reach arms up, make fists, and imagine pulling elbows down to shoulder height while drawing shoulder blades down and together.
- Then squeeze elbows in toward side ribs and flare the back of the hands to recruit lats and lower trapezius.
Train Pulling In Locust Pose
- From locust or hands-over-ears, reach arms forward, palms down, make fists, and pull elbows to side ribs as far as you can.
- Squeeze shoulder blades down and together and lift the forearms to feel posterior shoulder engagement.