Enjoy a short and effective yoga class for hips and restless legs. You can use this class to release tension in the hips and legs before bed time or prior to long travel. I also use this yoga class for hips to release stiffness after sitting for too long.
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A Breakdown of Each Posture in this Online Yoga Class For Hips
Child’s Pose (Balasana)
Child’s pose is a great first posture to start opening the hips. It creates a nice opening from the inside of the groins to broadening across the low back. It is a also a nice way to slow down and settle into you practice.
How To Child’s Pose
Sit hips back towards heels. Bring head down onto the floor or a block. Long deep breaths for 3-5 min.
Butterfly Pose (Badhakonasana) Variation 1
Moving into a long extended forwarding butterfly pose moves the opening of the hips to the outside of the hips as well as pulls the stretch up the back nicely. If you allow the head to hang you can enjoy some nice release into the neck and shoulders.
Butterfly Pose (Badhakonasana) How To
Bottoms of the feet together. Knees fall wide. Make a long diamond shape with the legs. Gentle fold forward at the hips. Long deep breaths for 3-5 min.
Butterfly Pose (Badhakonasana) Variation 1
This variation of butterfly pose pulls the feet closer into the groins and moves the opening to the inside of the leg. This yoga pose is a deep groin opener.
Butterfly Pose (Badhakonasana) Variation 1 Tutorial
Bottoms of the feet together. Knees fall wide. Pull feet closer to hips, making a smaller butterfly position. Gentle fold forward at the hips. Long deep breaths for 3-5 min.
Watch the full video to learn the full details of each yoga pose.
Low Lunge (Anjanesayana) Yoga Pose
The low lunge is a great posture for relief of tight hip flexors, quads and even the problematic and elusive psoas muscle.
Low Lunge (Anjanesayana) Yoga Pose How To
Start with right foot forwards, stacked over ankle. Extend left leg back. Hands on hips, knee or blocks for support. Long deep breaths for 3-5 min.
Forward Fold (Uttanasana)
One of the simplest and absolute best yoga poses for release for the whole back side of the body.
How To Forward Fold (Uttanasana)
Feet sit bone distance wide. Take a slow hinge from the hips forwards. Hands can rest on the floor, blocks or grab elbows. Long deep breaths for 3-5 min.
I hope you enjoyed this yoga class for hips. It can be a very problematic area for lots of people like myself. If holding each yoga pose for 3 to 5 minutes feels like too long start with a little bit less and work up to it. Try to avoid fidgeting through each posture and use long deep breaths to stay as relaxed as you can. This will avoid causing the body to tense instead of releasing for you.
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