Hip Opening Workshop with Luci Yamamoto

Is your lifestyle mostly active or mostly sedentary? Interestingly, both can cause tight hip flexors. In walking and running, you might be overdoing it with your hip flexors, especially if your abs and glutes are slack and lazy. In sitting at your computer, you hold those hip flexors in prolonged, passive tension. To reset them back to normal function, yoga poses can help.

In this workshop, we’ll release tight hip flexors not only by stretching, but also by activating abdominal and gluteus muscles. By harnessing these muscles, you can maintain healthy hip flexors more naturally and habitually. From lunges and Warrior I, we’ll explore Bhekasana, Setu Bandha Sarvangasana, and other relevant poses. Since tight muscles can simultaneously be weak, we’ll alternate stretching with targeted flexion to strengthen the iliopsoas.

2-4pm, September 28, 2024, $36

This workshop is part of my “Monthly Iyengar Yoga Tune-Up” series at Kitsilano Community Centre. Participants should have approximately one year of yoga experience and no major injuries. Props are available but, if possible, please bring your own mat, strap, blanket(s), and any particular items that you might need.

Register here with Kitsilano Community Centre.