In the first few months of taking up yoga, you may find that you'll have some soreness due to getting used to distributing your weight and utilizing your fingers and toes for stabilization instead of your wrists and ankles.
this happens, usually, because we aren't used to using our fingers and toes for weight bearing... for instance, the correct yoga hand position for weight bearing can be shown like so:
stick your hands in front of you like you're doing jazz hands. all of your muscles in your hand should be tensed. now keep them like that and place them on your desk/nearest surface. now lean on them... is the weight in your wrist alone? shouldn't be.
Now, relax and try the same thing. Now you're only leaning into your wrists... this is generally what most people do in the first stages of yoga practice- basically when you use your fingers and whole hand for balance support, you're letting a lot of muscles do a big job. when you are relaxing your hand and just using your wrists, you've got one small set of muscles doing a big job... so, more pain!
the same can be applied to your toes/ankle. If you're not spreading out your foot muscles *almost like jazz hands with the feet. I think of this as Monkey Feet*, then the same thing is occuring.
This is just my suggestion to try. I know I dealt with a LOT of pain in my wrists and ankles at first, until I asked my teacher and he corrected me. Hope this helps!
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this happens, usually, because we aren't used to using our fingers and toes for weight bearing... for instance, the correct yoga hand position for weight bearing can be shown like so:
stick your hands in front of you like you're doing jazz hands. all of your muscles in your hand should be tensed. now keep them like that and place them on your desk/nearest surface. now lean on them... is the weight in your wrist alone? shouldn't be.
Now, relax and try the same thing. Now you're only leaning into your wrists... this is generally what most people do in the first stages of yoga practice- basically when you use your fingers and whole hand for balance support, you're letting a lot of muscles do a big job. when you are relaxing your hand and just using your wrists, you've got one small set of muscles doing a big job... so, more pain!
the same can be applied to your toes/ankle. If you're not spreading out your foot muscles *almost like jazz hands with the feet. I think of this as Monkey Feet*, then the same thing is occuring.
This is just my suggestion to try. I know I dealt with a LOT of pain in my wrists and ankles at first, until I asked my teacher and he corrected me. Hope this helps!