How to Stack a Mountain

New yoga students can find the basics of alignment confusing, but most of the time it just comes down to stacking. The simplest pose that illustrates this is mountain pose - tadasana. Standing in mountain pose, all the major joint and skeletal building blocks are stacked one of top of the other. This means, from the bottom up, that the ankles, knees, pelvis, and shoulder girdle are all in a line. Keeping this set-up in mind helps you to figure out the alignment in other standing poses. Take warrior II, for instance. Though the front knee is bent, interrupting the continuous line from toe to head, you can still stack that knee over its corresponding ankle and the shoulder girdle over the pelvis. Make sense?

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