Wrist injuries are quite common in yoga, and during the pandemic, Emily and many other teachers she knows picked up wrist tenderness and injury from overdoing their asana practice while demonstrating full classes multiple times a day.

“I’d like to make it very clear to everyone, you absolutely can have too much of a good thing. Yoga asana is incredible but you can overdo it – so please don’t buy into the IG movement of #YogaEveryDamnDay as saying, oh yes, you must do a super strong and advanced practice every single day.” There are other aspects of yoga you can do everyday that aren’t really powerful and that won’t put you at risk of repetitive injuries. In fact, doing too much of the same weight-loading can put us at risk of further imbalances, so Emily recommends mixing up yoga practice with weight training and pulling motions that aren’t found at all in yoga.

If your wrists are aching, don’t be scared to skip certain parts of your workout that are making them worse or to modify exercises so you can do them on your knees (for example).

3 stretches to strengthen weak wrists at the start of your workouts