This is Your Hips II

About This Class

Bryan Kest leads this long-form, breath-driven power yoga flow built almost entirely around opening the hips, inner legs, and spine. Starting with child's pose and a thorough Ujjayi breathing orientation, the class builds through repeated sun-salutation-style sequences (cobra, plank, downward dog, low lunges) before diving deep into hip-specific work: wide-legged forward folds with lateral pulls, warrior/hero-stance lunges with chest-opening arm variations, low lunge with forearm-to-floor hip openers, half-bow (grabbing the ankle from hands-and-knees), full bow pose, plow, shoulder stand, happy baby, and supine twists. Dynamic core work (knee-to-opposite-elbow from down dog, boat-pose leg lowers with twists) is woven throughout. Bryan constantly frames the practice around self-compassion, breath freedom, non-competition, and listening to one's body, modifying freely. The class concludes with a seated gratitude meditation and savasana, making it equally a mindfulness practice as a physical one.