Hip Openers!

About This Class

This energizing yet grounding 60-minute flow is built around hip opening, moving systematically from gentle warm-up in child's pose and cat-cow through a progressive standing sequence — Warrior One, Warrior Two, Reverse Warrior, Extended Side Angle, Triangle, Half Moon, and Vertical Splits — before arriving at deep floor work including low lunge with quad stretch, thread the needle, happy baby, shoulder stand with plow, and supine twists. Spinal balancing, malasana (yogi squat) with lateral bind, standing frog with eagle arms, chair pose, twisting chair, forearm plank, and bridge round out the full-body journey. The instructor consistently invites students to calibrate their own effort, skip what doesn't serve them, and drop to child's pose whenever needed. A strong mindfulness thread runs through the class — breath awareness, present-moment focus, and gratitude are revisited in almost every transition — making this equally suitable for practitioners seeking physical hip and hamstring release and those looking to cultivate mental calm. The class closes with shoulder stand, plow, supine twists, and a generous Savasana.