Sentences that start with the phrase “A guru once told me…” are, more often than not, eye-roll-inducing. But recently, while resting in malasana, or a deep squat, in an East London yoga class, I was struck by the second half of the instructor’s sentence: “A guru once told me that the problem with the West is they don’t squat.”
I am 50-something, and one day as I popped up from a squat to retrieve something from a low shelf, realized that not everyone could, and became grateful.
Use it or lose it. I don’t like to sit like that but ok to sit in kneeling, that seems to force good posture too.