Simple yoga poses to strengthen your knees

Chair pose engages the quadriceps and glutes, which helps stabilize the knees. Keep your knees in line with your ankles and press your weight into your heels.

Chair Pose

This pose strengthens the hamstrings, glutes, and lower back, which can help support the knees. Be sure to engage your core and press your feet into the mat to lift your hips.

Bridge Pose

Warrior II works the muscles around the knee joint, particularly the quadriceps. Ensure that your front knee is aligned over your ankle and pointed in the same direction as your toes.

Warrior II

This is a foundational pose that helps with overall body awareness and alignment. It promotes proper posture and can indirectly support knee strength by improving alignment throughout the body.

Mountain Pose

Triangle pose helps stretch and strengthen the muscles around the knee. Focus on proper alignment and engage your thigh muscles for stability.

Triangle Pose

Pigeon pose is a hip opener that can alleviate tension in the hips and knees. It may not directly strengthen the knees but can improve their flexibility and function.

Pigeon Pose

This balancing pose engages the muscles of the standing leg, which includes the knee-supporting quadriceps and hamstrings.

Half Moon Pose

Tree pose improves balance and strengthens the muscles of the legs, including those around the knee joint. Start with your foot on your calf and gradually work up to your thigh.

Tree Pose

This backbend can help improve flexibility in the spine and stretch the quadriceps, which can indirectly benefit the knees.

Camel Pose