“Adduction” refers to bringing parts of your body (in this case, your legs) toward your body’s midline. Think of adduction as “adding” a body part to your center. Your adductors consist of 5 muscles: ...

Yoga Journal’s archives series is a curated collection of articles originally published in past issues beginning in 1975. This article about how to stretch first appeared in the May-June 1996 issue of ...