NEW! WITH INSTRUCTION. YOGA CHALLENGE for Hips 2 - Collection. Yoga with Lin and Leo.

NEW! WITH INSTRUCTION. YOGA CHALLENGE for Hips 2 - Collection. Yoga with Lin and Leo.
Top 5 poses for the Hips. Yoga Challenge. The Yoga for Hips Collection is a led practice. We show a yoga sequence, combining poses from the Hips 2 series for hip opening and for stretching hips, glutes and legs. Lin shows the classic yoga poses and Leo shows modified versions which make the poses more accessible for yoga students who need to improve extension, alignment or balance in the poses. Following requests, we have added a voiceover with instruction on this yoga video but we recommend that you do the five individual 'Hips 2' yoga tutorials which you will find in our Yoga Pose Directory or in the Yoga for Hips Playlist.

You may need some yoga props: two folded blankets, four foam pads and two yoga belts for the modified yoga poses in this yoga practice.

These yoga poses are all seated hip opening actions, some of which require great flexibility in the hip flexors, groins and psoas muscle, and are good for Intermediate yoga students. However, if you are a beginner to yoga but are quite supple, you may be able to achieve the modified actions shown by Leo. As with all yoga, do not force the action - be patient and consistent in your practice and the openings in the hips and groins will come.
The yoga poses practiced here are:
Gomukhasana (Cow face pose)
Baddha Konasana (Bound angle pose)
Upavistha Konasana (Wide-Angle Seated Forward Bend)
Siddhasana (Accomplished Pose)
Padmasama (Lotus Pose)

Our Yoga Pose Directory offers both Beginners Yoga and poses for more Intermediate yoga students.
Yoga with Lin and Leo for free yoga classes. See the Yoga for Beginners series for online yoga workouts specifically for Complete Beginners. Check out our 30 days of yoga series for a 30 day yoga challenge. Yoga practice can improve strength and flexibility and yoga for back pain relief and yoga for weight loss has been supported by many studies.

We combine some of the yoga poses in the Pose directory, into yoga sequences.

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Yoga is not a sport but regular practice of yoga sequences can improve fitness levels. Practiced correctly, yoga will stretch muscles and strengthen joints, as well as helping with mental and physical wellbeing; indeed many studies have shown that yoga can have remarkable effects on problems with back pain, shoulder pain and neck pain as well as demonstrating positive effects on mental health problems such as depression, stress and general anxiety. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10...

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