Woman demonstrating common Chaturanga alignment mistakes during Balance Yoga’s KNOWvember body mechanics workshop.

Fix Your Chaturanga: Do You KNOW What Your Chaturanga Needs?

November 04, 2026•1 min read

Do You KNOW What Your Chaturanga Needs?


Does your Chaturanga hurt?
Do your arms give out?
Do you feel like you’re just too weak?

You are not alone.

Chaturanga is one of the most repeated movements in yoga, and also one of the most misunderstood.

Many students have been told to “keep your elbows in” or “just lower halfway,” but that often isn’t enough. If the shoulders are not organized, the core is not supporting, or the arms do not have the strength to control the lowering, Chaturanga can feel frustrating, exhausting, or just plain bad.

That’s why I created this workshop.

In Fix Your Chaturanga, we won’t just keep repeating Chaturanga and hope it improves.

Instead, we’ll break it down.

We’ll explore:

  • where your Chaturanga breaks down

  • what Chaturanga actually requires

  • how to rehearse the movement without full body weight

  • how to build the strength and control to support it

  • how to gradually add load

  • and how to put it back together with more confidence

My belief is simple:

First, rehearse the movement.
Then build the capacity.
Then add the load.
Then master the skill.

This workshop is for students who struggle with Chaturanga, avoid it, or want to understand it better.

It is also for yoga teachers who want better ways to assess, regress, and teach Chaturanga to their students.

If your Chaturanga has ever felt hard, painful, or confusing, this workshop is for you.

90-Minute Workshop Students and Yoga Teachers Welcome

Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Hours Available Upon Request

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Angie Ryan
Angie Ryan, E-RYT 500, YACEP, is the owner and educator at Balance Yoga in Springfield, Illinois. She teaches alignment-focused yoga, body mechanics, breathwork and nervous system regulation, helping students better understand how everyday movement patterns may contribute to pain, tension and compensation. Angie’s teaching is deeply influenced by her own experience with injury, scoliosis and chronic pain, and by the movement practices that helped her change the way she felt in her own body. Her goal is simple: help people move with more awareness, confidence and comfort.
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