Healthy hips and happy hips! This two and a half hour hip-focused workshop will help you to lengthen, strengthen and explore all the wonderful movements in your hips (focusing on hip abduction, or hip opening). Most of us experience tightness in our hips due to prolonged periods of sitting, or only moving our legs in the sagittal plane (think; walking, cycling, kicking a football) - unlock your hips' range of motion and set them free!

What will we be doing?

We will begin with some theory, to understand how the hips move, and why hip mobility is so important for healthy and functional movement and posture.

We'll then get practical with to some drills to get your hips feeling strong and mobile, a yoga flow to get your body moving fluidly, and explore Samakonasana (Middle Splits)* with some hands-on assists before ending with some relaxing restorative postures to give the hips some love.

You will learn:

• Anatomy of the hips
• Functional benefits of flexibility training for the hips
• Exercises to strengthen and mobilise the hips
• How to safely practice and improve hip opening postures
• Restorative postures to release and relieve tightness in the hips and glutes

Timetabled classes for the month of October will continue to focus on hip opening postures, so that you can continue to deepen your practice.

*We will be working towards Middle Splits (as pictured), but there's no need to be able to get into the "full" expression of this pose. I will guide you to find adaptations that work for your abilities, so all levels are welcome to attend. There will be useful takeaways for everyone, whether you find a little more comfort sitting cross-legged, or master the middle splits! However, please ensure to let me know at the time of booking, if you have any complications or injuries so that I can prepare suitably.