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.”
Have experimented with this, and pointing my feet outward more. It doesn’t seem to help. No matter what, if I get my feet flat, my center of gravity is too far back and I fall over.