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Happy Hips

On April 24, 2017 in New Classes & Programs by YogaDownload.com

If your hips aren’t happy, odds are you won’t be happy either. In order to stay pain and injury free, you need to keep your hips open and stable. Yoga Sutra 2.46, Sthira Sukham asanam states that the posture should be stable and comfortable. Often, this principle is described as seeking the balance between strength and softness or effort and ease.

Tagged With: Hip Health, Hips, Yoga for Hips

Yoga and Your Hips, Part III

On January 27, 2016 in General by JasonCrandell

These are, hands down, my favorite 15 poses for opening the hips. Creating a balanced, effective hip-opening sequence is simple if you know how the hip muscles are laid out. When you don’t have for a map for their hips, you’re at a higher risk for overstretching your hamstrings and external rotators compared to your hip flexors and adductors. Teachers make this mistake in their sequencing regularly and, as a result, hamstring insertion injuries are one of the most prevalent injuries in modern yoga

Tagged With: Adductors, Anjaneyasana, Hamstrings, Hips, Malasana

Yoga and Your Hips, Part II

On January 19, 2016 in General by JasonCrandell

For more than a decade, I’ve quivered at the thought of attending a hip-opening workshop. Having played ice hockey and been a skateboarder for more 15 years, my hips were molten lead that no amount of Pigeon Pose could crack open. Now, 20 years in, I’ve chipped away and breathed steadily enough to be halfway comfortable and mobile in these joints.

Tagged With: Glutes, Hamstrings, Hip Flexors, Hips, yoga

Yoga Anatomy of the Hips

On December 15, 2015 in General by JasonCrandell

Yoga has made me curious about my body for more than 20 years. When I feel restriction in my outer hips during Pigeon Pose, I wonder what exactly is holding me back—is it my gluteus maximus, my piriformis and external rotators, my posterior capsule… or my questionable karma? Hey, I’m a Virgo, I don’t like surprises, and teaching yoga is my passion, so I like to understand these things. That’s fair, right?

Tagged With: acetabulum, Anatomy, Hips, Labrum, Stability, yoga

Fast and Flexible: Yoga for Runners, Part 3 - Hips, Glutes & Low Back

On February 23, 2015 in General by Tara Kestner

Fast and Flexible: Yoga for Runners, Part 3 - Hips, Glutes & Low Back

In this last installment of the Fast & the Flexible series, we have reached the part of the body that brings the majority of people to yoga class, the hips and low back. We will address the glutes as well, but I rarely get a new client who openly complains that their butt hurts, at least not right away.

Tagged With: Dead Bug, Glutes, Hips, Low Back Pain, Pigeon three ways, Reclined Pigeon Pose

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