Yoga for Hips

Get off your seat and get ready to open and release your tight hips and hamstrings! This focused practice will help you create space and freedom for your back side. Whether you are an athlete or a desk jockey, this class is perfect for anyone suffering from tight glutes, hammies, and hips!

Enjoy a lower body burn in this fusion flow class, that weaves together elements of yoga, barre, and pilates for a highly integrated, highly intentional practice. You can expect to feel steady and strong through your legs, as you will work larger muscles groups as well as stabilizers in tune with your breath in this dynamic practice. Explore a variety of parallel and turn out positions, working with weights to stabilize, add spice, and increase intentionality.

This slow flow class is designed to invite movement and openness into your body while giving you time to feel each pose, connect to a slower and more mindful breath and build internal heat in the body.

We start class in child's pose and warm up the spine with a ground sequence that also opens up the hips. Sun A includes standing twists and a breakdown of chaturanga.

Our Sun B flow focuses on the hips and hamstrings finding a contraction and then an opening as we move from pose to pose.

We stoke the fire with some standing and balancing poses before taking everything to the ground to stretch and release the lower half of the body.

This is another class in the Yogic Way repertoire series, in which honoring the roots of yogic traditions is central. In this practice, you will tune into your own root through the use of sound (mantra), movement, and breath so as to enliven a sense of steadiness within the rhythmic nature of your life. This class is perfect for morning, evening, or as a midday boost. You can expect to feel free in your hips, and shoulders following this practice.

In this all-levels class, we discuss the concept of The Gunas, the three strands of energy that make up the universe. Throughout our time together, we explore how both effort and ease come together, both physically and energetically, so that we can move closer to a state of “balance”.

With a blend of longer holds and breath to movement flow, this class will help you move into a meditative state with both your body and your mind.

This class is a part of a zodiacal series to attune the physical and subtle body to the energetics of the Moon in Scorpio. It works to connect to the depths of self, and latent energy harbored in the hips and pelvis. These postures will work to open to the unseen, and help with deep breath work (pranayama) or kundalini practices. These forces open to release both what is unseen and unknown, and equally open up to the unknown potential of the self.

It can be practiced when the moon is in Scorpio, each month, or if your birth moon is in Scorpio and you'd like to accentuate the physical and mental qualities.

Drawing inspiration from some creative aspects of Katonah Yoga, Caitlin Rose offers a unique Flow class that improves strength and flexibility. Warm-up in strengthening variations of Downward Dog and Gate Pose. Go deeper in standing poses and generate stability in your legs and hips. Unwind with twisting and hip releases.

This class offers a balance of yin and yang with both Vinyasa Flow and Yin Yoga. Begin standing to build strength and grace then slow down in longer holds to release your fascia. Feel the power of both yang and yin practice in this class and promote balanced wellbeing.

If you don't use them, you lose them. Many cultures who sit in a simple seat or squat to use the bathroom, utilize hip mobility throughout their days. However, for the rest of us, we need to move this amazing ball-and-socket joint in all ways to increase balance, add strength, and preserve mobility as we age. Join Kristin as she weaves hip mobility & flexibility through a 30-minute slow flow.

This class is a fusion of core strengthening moves and therapeutic back work. You'll work on mobility and flexibility of the muscles surrounding the spine and build strong abs and back muscles. Planks, tough core series, bridges, spinal stabilization, and more! Alternately energizing and relaxing, this class is the perfect blend to have you standing tall and feeling great.

Get ready for a twist mobility session that targets your spine and hips with familiar yoga poses and their variations to improve flexibility, release tension, and engage your core muscles. You'll feel better with an improved range of movement and less stiffness.

Tap into your inner Bliss Body with this slower paced, vinyasa class. Using the mantra Ananda Hum, I am Bliss, we start out with slow, mindful stretches and then transition to breath and body flow to open the heart and gently heat the body. A perfect practice for beginner to advanced yoga students seeking a deeper connection with that feeling of true inner Bliss!

This class is a part of a zodiacal series to attune the physical and subtle body to the energetics of the Moon in Virgo. It taps into the life giving forces within the self and work the hips, low belly, open the low back. These energies align new life forces, help purify, and balance the giving and receiving qualities.

It can be practiced when the moon is in Virgo, each month, or if your birth moon is in Virgo and you'd like to accentuate the physical and mental qualities.

Renew your lower back in a practice designed to release your spine and hips. Gather your props and marinate in Yin Yoga shapes that release and unwind lower body tension. Practice mindfulness and breath awareness in this slow and deep class.

Let go of any tension or baggage in mind or body in this gentle 35-minute fully body Yin class. Move your spine in all directions, open your heart, and have the space to be with yourself wherever you are at. After long-held yin poses and a Sound Bowl Savasana--you will feel lighter, grounded, and more connected to Self.

Shakira may not have been the first to say that Your Hips Don't Lie. Yogis have always looked at the legs and hips as the foundation of the body. It is understood that if your legs and hips, your first and second chakra, are in alignment, it is easier to bring the rest into alignment and also the opposite is true - if your hips are out of wack, it is all a bit trickier. Perhaps you have noticed this in a simpler way - when your low back hurts, perhaps you also notice your shoulders or neck start to feel wonky as well. In this low to the ground, gentle sequence, we will work the full dimension of the hips (inner, outer, front and back). Using side stretching to create a connection from the hips to the heart, we will explore what it means to slow down and listen to our hips. And maybe just take them out dancing after class. You never know....

In our busy world we can often feel pulled in many directions. Yoga is here to help us return to our center, again and again. Take time to come to your mat and mindfully move your body, breathe deeply, and recenter with this vinyasa flow class.

You will flow through Sun Salutation (Surya Namaskar) variations, then hold balancing postures such as Half Moon (Ardha Chandrasana) and Extended Hand to Big Toe Pose (Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana) with options, and finish with grounding postures to help you feel balanced and renewed. Enjoy!

A quick yin unwind for those short on time. Calm down, open your neck + shoulders and find some big hip openers all on your back. Slow moving, relaxing yin class to help you reset back to the calm, free, divine Self you are. Enjoy a gentle Sound Bowl Savasana to help you shed any final worries + tensions.

Paying attention to our hips also helps to heal the low back. This class focuses on mobility, strength and flexibility for the entire hip area. It's short and effective.

Spotify playlist for Yoga and Mobility for Hips

This class is apart of a zodiacal series to attune the physical and subtle body to the energetics of the Moon in Gemini. It works to open the side-body, chest, and diaphragm. It strengthens the inner to outer communication, focusing from inner self and intuitive expression.

It can be practiced when the moon is in Gemini, each month, or if your birth moon is in Gemini and you'd like to accentuate the physical and mental qualities.

This class will focus entirely on forwards bends from both standing and sitting. Be prepared for some big stretches through the entire back of your leg.

Explore mantra, pranayama, and gentle vinyasa in another installation of the Yogic Way series. This class aims to offer up opportunity to soften into the subtleties of full spectrum yogic practices. Observe cosmic sensations through your physical experience on the mat, and drop into your own expansive and eternal nature through this slow moving, feel good practice.

This practice focuses on the interconnected relationship of the body and the mind and how our awareness of one, directly affects the other. In a yin practice, we disengage the muscles of the body to access the drier tissues within and at the same time we can also observe the mind expand. Enjoy long holds in five different shapes to explore this concept and end the class with a short pranayama practice.

Quell fear and calm down in this 40-minute Yin class, specifically sequenced to stimulate the Kidney + Urinary Bladder Meridians Lines (stimulates trust, wisdom, more energy, hope). Expect long holds to help the body + mind unravel and relax, followed by a sound bowl Savasana to leave you feeling super relaxed and reconnected to Self.

This sequence will prepare your hips for half and full lotus. We will strengthen the core, work the hips, and stretch the quads, inner thighs, hamstrings, and low back.

This class is apart of a zodiacal series to attune the physical and subtle body to the energetics of the Moon in Cancer. It works to awaken the creative center, and the powerful forces within the low belly. It draws more energy to nurturance and sustenance of the self, and personal life forces.

It can be practiced when the moon is in Cancer, each month, or if your birth moon is in Cancer and you'd like to accentuate the physical and mental qualities.

In this all-levels vinyasa class you will spend time warming up the hips and hamstrings for hanumanasa, or the splits. The class includes standing splits, 1/2 splits, triangle pose, and some balancing before coming down for our peak pose.

The goal is NOT to actually do hanumanasa, but rather follow the process that it takes to potentially get there some day.

Sometimes you want the benefit of the long, slow, deep Yin holds but don't have a full hour to practice. Elise will guide you through just a few juicy poses to get into your hips and spine in just a few minutes. Enjoy this short taste of Yin Yoga!

Spotify playlist for Bite-Sized Yin

Specific modified yoga poses target kinetic (movement) lines and deep muscles to promote mobility, healthy flexibility and prevent injuries. This class focuses on opening up the myofascial tissue connections from the inner pelvis to outer hip to promote strength and mobility in knees, ankles, and lower back.

Great class to support healthy mobility in joints and restore muscular imbalance.

Indulge in a gentle Yin sequence crafted to stimulate the Stomach + Spleen Meridians (sheds worry, anxiety, lack of confidence, and feelings of overwhelm). End your class with an extra-long Savasana accompanied by a mini-Sound Bath—encouraging relaxation, deep meditation, and a mending of connection to our inner divine.