Strong Hamstrings: Benefit Your Knees & Progress Your Handstand

Written By Stephanie Tencer

While releasing tight hamstrings can be a worthy pursuit, strengthening your hamstrings is what will ultimately deliver the most benefit. Today’s practice is designed to help you ENGAGE and STRENGTHEN those hamstrings, with benefits to your knees, hips, and lower back.

This Iyengar Yoga sequence activates the hamstrings by exploring a technique which encourages those muscles to ‘turn on’. And for an added bonus, if you stick with the practice to the end, you’ll also discover why this work is key to successfully kicking up into handstand! 🤸‍♂️👌

This practice is for you if you want to:

  • Engage and strengthen your hamstrings

  • Support healthy knee and hip function

  • Improve your ability to kick up into Handstand (Adho Mukha Vrksasana)

Some of the asanas we cover include:

  • Tadasana

  • Virabhadrasana III

  • Urdhva Prasarita Eka Padasana

  • Adho Mukha Vrksasana

Stephanie Tencer
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