I’ve been doing yoga in one form or another for almost 12 years, and I’m pretty sure I’ve never made it through an entire practice without at least one downward-facing dog pose.
That being said, I don’t think I can adequately express to you just how much I loathed this pose for nearly the entire time I’ve been practicing it.
It was uncomfortable. It hurt my wrists. My shoulders ached. Sometimes my neck felt weird. And it felt ENDLESS.
As I’ve been talking to many of you about yoga over the past several months, I’ve realized that almost everyone experiences these same small miseries in one form or another when doing this pose.