Hip Flexors

You gotta stretch out those hip flexors!

Start with a warmup: childs, sphinx, straddle.

Into dragons. Start with Flying High. Lean forward off the head of your back knee, on to the tip of your thigh, above your knee. Sink your hips forward and down, feeling for sensation in the quad and especially in the hip flexor of the back leg. Then lift the arm opposite the forward knee and then slight sidebend reaching overhead. Feel for a straight line of energy and a stretch from fingertips into the hip crease and hip flexor. Wrap up this side with Flying Low / runners lunge. Repeat on both sides.

Saddle, deer, deer. You can maybe get a little bit of quad or hip flexor by sending the knee of your top leg straight away from you lengthening away from the top of your head, and also back behind you in space.

Cat, cat. Supported bridge on the bolster. Hug one knee into your chest, extend the other leg straight out in front of you, stiff as a board. Find a fulcrum point where when you pull your knee into your chest, your straightened leg lifts up off the floor a small amount. You might need to rock your pelvis forward and backward to find it. Hold, allow the weight of your leg to grow heavy, feeling it in your hip flexor. Do the other side.

Finish up this shape in supported bridge, drawbridge, or waterfall.

Finish up in savasana.

That was a lot of hip flexor!

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