Hi Sarah
What I would like to ask you is what you do? If you are able to open your hips more and keep them as parallel as you can to the front then this is a different pose to dropping the hip. As you mention for some they simply can’t do this pose without dropping the hip so they do, and that’s fine – as long as they have the outcome of well aligned hips.
I would like to ask you to go and practice this pose: First set dropping the hip and the second set, keeping the hips as open and as parallel as possible. Then see if you can put those sensations into words. I will share some distinctions with you afterward!
Namaste
Gabrielle 🙂
