Chaturanga Dandasana in Yoga

Reviewer That shoulder cue is exactly the kind of detail that prevents injuries.

Moderator Three specific, correct points about chaturanga: elbow angle flexibility, avoiding shoulder dumping (with a practice fix), and the whole-body engagement tie-in to Tadasana. Squarely on topic.

Reviewer Thorough and correct -- near-identical to their other upload on this pose.

Moderator Same content and near-identical script to another chaturanga video in this queue (same creator, 'yogiflightschool') -- same progressions, same cues. Judged on its own merits it's just as squarely on-topic.

Reviewer Thorough, safe, and well-sequenced -- excellent teaching.

Moderator Comprehensive, entirely on-topic progression for building toward chaturanga: pushing up instead of lowering down, hand position relative to the ribs, knee-supported version, partial-range progression, head/spine alignment cue, and a wall-assisted progression.

Reviewer The clearest explanation of shoulder protraction I've seen for this pose — start here if you're new to it.

Moderator Complete chaturanga breakdown — hand gripping, shoulder protraction/depression, building the high plank, the knees-down beginner modification, and a dedicated common-mistakes section. Nothing off-topic.

Reviewer Several real regressions here, not just 'keep trying.'

Moderator Addresses a real teaching problem - people trying to lower into chaturanga before they have the strength - with a clever reversal (push up from the floor instead) plus partial-depth and wall-practice regressions.

Reviewer Actually teaches you how to build toward the pose, not just what it looks like.

Moderator A genuine strength-building progression: forward-leaning plank check, 'baby chaturangas' on the knees, then toes, then eccentric lowering practice. Squarely on topic and pedagogically sound.

Reviewer If your chaturanga always collapses, the block progression here will actually fix it.

Moderator A full progressive system for building chaturanga with blocks — high blocks down to no blocks — addressing the most common fault (collapsed shoulders, chin near the floor) at every stage. All chaturanga, all the way through.

Reviewer The supine pelvis drill before you ever get to plank is a smart way to bulletproof your shoulders.

Moderator Every minute of this is building toward safe chaturanga — pelvic neutrality, transverse abdominis activation, then applying it lying down before adding gravity. Entirely on-topic.

Reviewer No filler - just the three mistakes that actually matter.

Moderator Three concise, correct, and genuinely common errors: missing scapular protraction, shoulders dropping below elbows, and lumbar arching instead of a posterior tilt. Precisely on topic.

Reviewer Correct and safety-conscious, if a bit more lecture than drill.

Moderator Explains what the pose is, how to enter it from high plank, correct alignment, and the injury risk of letting the shoulders dip below the elbows. Clear foundational teaching, squarely on topic.

Reviewer The knees-down-first progression is exactly how a beginner should build up to this.

Moderator Ground-up chaturanga instruction — wrist alignment, finger spread, building from knees-down holds up to the full hover position. All chaturanga, nothing else.

Reviewer The 'don't just repeat a faulty rep, regress instead' advice alone is worth the watch.

Moderator Entirely dedicated to one specific chaturanga execution problem — keeping the head/torso/pelvis relationship level as the elbows bend — using a staged block system. Nothing else on screen.

Reviewer Best all-round beginner chaturanga tutorial here.

Moderator Very clear dedicated tutorial: plank first, then the lower-down with elbow-shoulder alignment, calls out lower-back dipping, shoulders creeping to the ears, and elbows flaring -- plus a belt trick to physically limit how far you drop, and named contraindications (carpal tunnel, pregnancy).

Reviewer One of the strongest tutorials in the batch.

Moderator This is exactly what this sub-skill needs: a dedicated Ashtanga-lineage breakdown of hand/foot placement using plank as a measuring tool, elbow-over-wrist alignment, why the chest needs to drop below the elbows (with a Pattabhi Jois reference photo), and the two most common failure modes -- head dropping (collapsing the shoulder) and elbows drifting behind the wrist.

Reviewer Excellent, safe, detailed breakdown.

Moderator Dedicated chaturanga breakdown start to finish. Transition from plank, shift forward, elbow stacking over wrists, elbows to ribcage, knees-down modification. Exactly the sub-skill.

Reviewer Nice progressive teaching method.

Moderator Builds up through cobra and upward dog as prep poses before chaturanga itself, repeatedly cueing elbows tucked in (not flared), shoulders away from the ears, and chest opening -- a sensible progressive teaching approach.

Reviewer Basic language, but the live step-by-step approach genuinely works.

Moderator A live 1-on-1 teaching demo, genuinely scaffolded in two steps before the student attempts it solo - real-time coaching cues (tailbone tuck, shoulder down, look straight) repeated as the student practices.

Reviewer Solid basics, good modification for beginners, nothing you haven't heard before.

Moderator Standard, complete pose breakdown from plank — alignment cues, common faults, a knees-down modification. Nothing but chaturanga instruction here.

Reviewer Clear and well-organized beginner lesson.

Moderator Clean step-by-step from tabletop to high plank to low plank, with two explicit variations (knees-down and full) and calls out the two classic mistakes: chest-down-hips-up and collapsing flat to the floor.

Reviewer Anatomically detailed, injury-prevention focused - genuinely useful alignment cues.

Moderator Chaturanga is one of four poses broken down here, and it gets real dedicated attention - elbow-over-wrist alignment, external rotation of the biceps, hugging elbows in. Squarely covers the pose even though it's part of a sequence.

Reviewer Really well-taught foundational pose, exactly the kind of progression a beginner needs before attempting chaturanga.

Moderator This is explicitly taught as a preparatory pose for chaturanga - Adriene states directly that it builds the strength/pattern needed for the chaturanga transition, and for beginners it's an actual substitute for it. Not chaturanga itself, but squarely built to serve it.

Reviewer Good specific cues wrapped around a smart use of a prop.

Moderator A bolster-assisted regression - a real, specific teaching method for making chaturanga safer and more accessible while building the pattern.

Reviewer The scapular push-up drill is the standout — builds the exact strength chaturanga demands.

Moderator A good chunk of this is generic warm-up (neck rolls, wrist circles, cat-cow) before it gets to chaturanga-specific work, but the back half — scapular press-ups, elbow and hand-placement drills — is explicitly built to strengthen and align this exact pose.

Reviewer Solid prop-assisted beginner teaching.

Moderator Part of a 30-day beginner pose series, uses blocks to scaffold the transition, gives a knee-down modification, and flags shoulder/wrist injury caution.

Reviewer The two-block setup is a great way to actually feel what a held chaturanga should look like.

Moderator This is squarely chaturanga, but it's really addressing a specific misconception — that chaturanga is only the plank-to-updog transition rather than a pose you can hold and train in isolation. Assumes you already move through it in flow.

Reviewer Correct basics, not much depth.

Moderator A concise, correctly structured how-to: sanskrit breakdown, step-by-step from dandasana into the pose, a knee-down variation, benefits and contraindications listed out.

Reviewer The block progression is a genuinely good way to learn this safely.

Moderator Chaturanga as a plank variation, with a block used to build the correct straight-arm position — this is squarely about the pose and how to actually get it right.

Reviewer Best beginner breakdown of the movement in this batch, even unlabeled.

Moderator This is basically a chaturanga tutorial in disguise -- she never says the Sanskrit name but walks through the exact mechanic: modified high plank, bend elbows straight back to halfway (elbows touch ribs), hold, then all the way down. Explicitly calls out that this sequence shows up in every power class and needs to be learned properly.

Reviewer Great beginner strength prep.

Moderator Prep sequence for chaturanga: hovering cat, half-plank vinyasa, knees-chest-chin. Builds the pose without fully drilling the final shape, but clearly on the chaturanga path.

Reviewer Real Chaturanga reps with good cues, just brief.

Moderator Explicitly names and repeats 'Chaturanga pushups' with reps -- lower halfway, lift, pull elbows back, press up. This is the pose by name, actually being drilled.

Reviewer Exceptional, detailed instruction -- just stops one step short of Chaturanga itself.

Moderator This teaches Plank Pose in real depth -- the direct precursor to Chaturanga and sharing all the same alignment principles (hand placement, shoulder stacking, not collapsing). It doesn't take you into the actual lowered Chaturanga position, so it's adjacent rather than dead-on, but the carryover is high.

Reviewer Right cue, just a small slice of a longer class.

Moderator Within a longer flow, this includes the actual Chaturanga transition -- 'step back to plank or half plank... hug the elbows into the side body and slowly lower down' -- with the correct key cue (elbows hugging in). Brief but accurate and it's really doing the movement, not just naming it.

Reviewer Good, accurate chaturanga coaching.

Moderator Chaturanga gets real attention here - modified knees-down high-to-low plank, elbows graze the ribs, head-shoulders-hips-knees in one line, and a traditional vs modified side-by-side. Covered well, alongside the rest of the sequence.

Reviewer Interesting concept, hard to actually use as written.

Moderator Squarely about chaturanga and addresses a real pain point (shoulder/elbow/wrist strain), but the actual technique -- using exhale/bandha engagement instead of arm strength -- is explained almost entirely through metaphor ('a bubble of air in your back,' 'you become weightless') rather than concrete body mechanics.

Moderator This is about Chaturanga directly, but the focus is on why it's good for you rather than how to actually get into or hold it correctly.

Reviewer Good motivation, but you won't learn the technique from this alone.

Reviewer Real anatomy buried under a lot of chakra talk.

Moderator A dedicated 'analysis' of the pose from an osteopath/yoga teacher -- real content on muscle activation (deltoids, triceps, rectus abdominis) and wrist-tendinitis risk, but a large chunk drifts into chakra/prana/hormone-secretion claims that aren't grounded in anything verifiable.

Reviewer Clear, well-cued; the chaturanga push-up form work is genuinely useful.

Moderator 30-min strengthen/tone flow. Has a dedicated chaturanga push-up block with good form coaching (rotate arms, elbows graze ribs, modify on knees) and chaturanga dandasana in the vinyasa. Present with some focus, but within a long full-body workout.

Reviewer Clear, well-cued flow with a solid chaturanga push-up block.

Moderator 20-min morning full-body flow. Includes explicit chaturanga push-ups with form coaching (rotate to elbow pits, lower halfway, elbows graze ribs, knees down to modify) plus chaturanga in the vinyasa. Covered with some depth but among many other poses.

Reviewer Well-paced flow, good early low-plank cueing.

Moderator 30-min EVOLVE flow. Modified low-plank to up-dog cued early, chaturanga in the repeated vinyasa, but the meat is the standing sequence (crescent, warrior, side angle, goddess). Chaturanga is the linking transition.

Reviewer Quality flow, responsible modifications - light on chaturanga detail.

Moderator 30-min full-body flow. Chaturanga dandasana appears repeatedly in the vinyasa with a -elbows graze ribs, neck in line- cue and a -skip straight to down dog- option, but the bulk is bear walks, star crunches, warrior flow. Chaturanga is a transition, not the lesson.

Reviewer Good follow-along cueing on the low-plank foundation.

Moderator 10-min arms/abs power flow. It does drill the modified low plank (chaturanga foundation) with real form cues - rotate elbows forward, lower halfway, elbows graze ribs - but inside a broader workout with side planks, cobra etc. Chaturanga is present, not the focus.