Want to touch your toes in forward fold? Try this!

unless you are hypermobile or incredibly flexible, BEND YOUR KNEES. Bending your knees will help you get into your hips and keep your spine long. Even bend your knees in the pyramid pose. It’s ok to bend your kness. Also, even if you can do it with straight legs, a micro bend in your knees will keep you from locking out the pose. You don’t want rigidity. So many of my students think that they must have straight legs in every pose and they sacrifice the tall spine for the legs, and don’t get into their hips.

[evdokiabach]

Thank you! I also teach them to bend knees in a Forward fold instead of rounding the back. We have long muscles on the back, so beginners need to stretch them first, which is achieved in a forward fold with long back ❤

[naina]

The quality of my classes have improved so much thanx to you dear Charlie. Also your video on how to sequence has been so useful. My mental blocks have almost gone. Gratitude from India.

[layladarby]

Thank you Charlie your teaching is brilliant.

[ElishiaPremium]

You are an amazing person and instructor!
I can see through your eyes, smile and voice how nice personé you are !
Being an instructor for 9 years, always enjoy and appreciate your demonstrations.
Namaste

[meetidnani]

That was sooo needed for me... I've always tried to wonder how to get there... Gonna try it❤

[alokrm]

I feel so positive after watching your videos 🙂

[UnmaskingTheMachine]

The most kind lady on YouTube. I have to wear sunglasses because of all her light 💡☀️👀😎 ❤️

[bjb]

Wow. I never heard of these ways to get better at this. Makes so much sense. Thank you.

[vigankrasnici]

What a beautiful feminine elegant soft spoken woman

[RajniNAgarwal]

U seem so selfless and helpful i find yr videos very useful

[josebonilla]

Very useful tips; thank you very much !

[CreatingwithG]

I really appreciate these instructions as a beginner yogi! I couldn’t do this and felt bad about it! Now, I’ll just follow the instructions and I know it will work as it worked with me previously 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[robertmarianomolina]

Whenever I do this stretch I always tell myself to keep my knees straight. I see now that that part can be worked on later, what's important is the back stretch. Thank you.

[BlondeQtie]

the biggest problem i see as a fitness trainer is: people want to be able to do something so bad that they throw technique and posture over board andbtry to reach the „end position“ just to have a feeling of achievement and not being „bad“. they are unhappy if they can only reach their shins in a forward fold, they WANT to grab the toes, no matter how bad the technique gets 😅 people need to learn to make smaller steps and know their body!
i have a class for back and core excercises. i have a 67 yo that cannot even stand straight. and i have a 28 yo fit guy in the same class. i give them variations (e.g. planks on knees vs. on toes plus maybe extra movements). i regularly see the elderly or less able people try harder variations although they already struggled with the lighter variation. then they collapse and get nothing done. i try very hard to tell and teach them to find their own variation and listen to their body. tell them to pay attention to their posture. look into the mirror to check your posture. but sometimes they just don’t listen. i think that’s a big problem.

[trizapatel]

Hi Charlie you are too good and the way you explain is so simple and easy to get going luv you❤Charlie I luv alll your vedios 😘

[ebonymitchell]

I was literally wondering about this, this morning! Thank you for the explanation 😊

[danielcarlier]

Great, I'm gonna try this out! Thank you!!

[tabbyh]

Amazing thank you, never had it broken down! Xxxx

[Kalaivarun]

Charlie your videos are helpful to me. Thank you. Can you please post a video to increase the shoulder reachability from back ie iam not able to do namaste from back or lift my hands up by interlocking fingers from the back