Most of the students are curious about to know about the Thigh rotations in yoga postures. It’s very simple to understand, if you know about the Anatomy of Skeletal system movements. Let us look on it.
Our thigh bone (femur) is the one which connecting our pelvis and shin bones. Femur is connected with the hip socket and this ball socket join help the thigh bone to move in six different ways or combination of it. These motions are anatomically named as Flexion (thigh bone getting closer to the pelvic bone, Extension (thigh bone getting away from the pelvis- opposite to the flexion), Abduction (thigh bone going to the side), Adduction (thigh bone getting to the midline of the body), Lateral Rotation (rotating the thigh bone externally) and Medial Rotation (rotating the thigh bone internally).
Most of the times when we talking about the thigh rotation in yoga poses, we are talking about the thigh rotations in the thighs are by looking on the femur’s Greater Trochanter’s movement. Whenever the Flexion, Abduction and Lateral Rotation happen, the Greater Trochanter moves externally. Also, whenever the Extension, Adduction and Medial Rotation happen, the Greater Trochanter moves internally.
Depend on the structural difference in hip sockets, hip ligaments and hip connected muscles every person have restriction and freedom in thigh movements. Most of the yoga poses we try to find out is our maximum potential limit in that posture by working on our skeleton-muscular system.
Let us see these movements in our yoga postures which are consider as the foundation in our daily practices.
