This well-rounded Vinyasa flow practice will touch all parts of your body. This is a strong and balanced practice of side stretches, twists, hip openers, backbends, forward bends, and core work that will make you feel open, grounded and centered when finished.
This practice will help to open and provide greater mobility in the hips. Deep holds, long stretches as well as standing poses will be utilized to access the deeper, denser muscles of the hip area.
In this second segment of Rhoda’s ongoing chair yoga series, we focus on movements to increase range of motion in the spine and facilitate hip opening.
Hip openers are among the most popular yoga poses, and for good reason. For most of us the hips are a very tight area. When we talk about “opening the hips,” we’re actually trying to create more spaciousness in the muscles that attach the leg to the hip girdle. So opening the hips means stretching … Continued
Discover the essential principles that will transform your hips and create greater freedom in all of your postures. We’ll use standing, seated and supine poses to increase your range of motion in all directions, and you’ll both release your hips and finish class empowered to continue the opening throughout your practice.