Keeping your hips limber and pain-free is easier than you might think, and so is regaining flexibility that’s long lost—even if your hips feel like they've already set in cement.
One of the most crucial things you can do is move your hips often and in a variety of different ways.
For example, when you sit on the floor, your hips move differently from sitting in a chair.
And sitting on your sitting bones as opposed to sitting with your pelvis tucked under offers an entirely different hip-movement experience.
There are all types of hip stretches and exercises you can practice, and today I’m going to show you one of my favorites to soothe and move your hips in new ways.
After watching the video and giving the exercise a try, I’d love to know how it goes. Make sure and let me know in the comments below.
Wishing you hips that move with ease,
Sydney
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Thx for sharing these exercises…….I enjoy hip circles on an exercise ball to loosen up the pelvis and releasing any built-up tension in my hip joints. This exercise also helps on working the upper body and training my core muscles….
Love it! Thanks for sharing, Maddie!
This is the best description on how to hip circle I have ever read! The cue to keep knees sraight is a game changer for me. Also your instructions on the hip hinge are so helpful. Keeping a straight back and knees makes so much sense. After many years of trying to understand both of these moves I have finally got it:)
Cheers, Sue.
Yay, I’m so glad this was helpful, Sue, and really appreciate you letting me know. Thank you!
Love this
Yay, thanks for letting me know, Linda!
I am so glad I found this session after sitting for an hour working on my computer. Wow, I really needed that “lubrication” in my hip joints. Now I feel like I can take a walk outside.
Sydney, you are a Master at Restorative body movements.
Thanks so very much and hope to see you in the studio very soon.
My Best, Bev
Awww, thank you, Bev! And I’m so happy this was a helpful one. Can’t wait to see you!
Thank you for this simple and Very beneficial exercise! What would a more advanced hip circle look like?
For this one, isolating the movement of the pelvis on the leg bones is the goal. Often people unconsciously bend the knees and flex at the spine, and as a result, miss the hip benefits of the exercise. In that way, it’s also an awareness-creating exercise. Adding the hip hinge is the more advanced version, but you could definitely take that awareness and the movement into bigger moves. Thanks for your feedback and question, Natasja!
This is something I will do every day now! Thank you for explaining about keeping the knees and back straight.
Yay, awesome! Thanks so much for sharing, Ann!
Thanks; I really like this. I’ve been doing another hip exercise from you to open up my hip area: sitting with feet together and dropping your knees to the side. So now I’ll add this exercise. I have a lot of hip soreness and I already can tell a difference just doing this exercise as you explained it. Thanks.
So glad this was helpful, Carol. Thank you for letting me know!