The focus for Yoga for Optimum Wellness this month is legs and knees. Muscles surrounding the knee joint must be both strong and yet flexible to properly align and stabilize this sensitive joint. Mindfully practicing yoga can accomplish both over time.
A quote from Healing Keys says
Our legs move our body forward and backwards. Our legs symbolize foundation and moving forward in our life.
Problems with our legs signify feelings of not ‘having a leg to stand on,’ with no support, strength or foundation, and having nothing to build on or to go forward toward.
The knees are the shock absorbing joints in the leg. They allow the legs to bend for walking and they articulate with the tibia and the femur.
The knees represent making decisions, charisma and commitment.
Problems with our knees indicate that we are having difficulty with decision-making, that we are ‘weak kneed’ and that we are finding it difficult to move forward in a new way.
We believe that our needs will not be taken care of if we move onto the next step, or that we won’t succeed.
Problems with the knees symbolize trying to get our needs met, rather than fully giving ourselves in commitment, which is truly fulfilling.
Knees represent pride and ego. Problems with knees can be inability to bend, fear, & inflexibility.
The metaphors we use in our language help us to clearly see the energetic message and meaning in our legs and knees:
The problem bought him to his knees,
She is knee deep in tasks,
He went weak in the knees just thinking about the future.
That idea has no legs.
Let’s hit the ground running.
Achieving a balance between strength, but not pride; between flexibility and commitment is the message in the legs and knees.
