Movement for Hips

Movement for Hips

This class collection focuses on hip mobility and flexibility, working to improve your movements of daily life such as walking, sitting, and lifting! Hip pain and tension can be very common due to activities like desk work, driving and commuting, or hobbies like painting, reading, hiking, or kickboxing. Develop strength in large muscle groups surrounding your hips, low back, and lower body will create flexibility and freedom of movement and manage pain and tension. You'll find both low impact, strength building workouts, and restorative, short classes or exercises to practice on a lunch break or before bed.

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Movement for Hips
  • Deep Hip Release with Lydia | Restorative Class (23 Mins)

    Release all the tension in your hips with Lydia with this soothing restorative class. You will move slowly through a tender lunge, runner's stretch, child's pose, knee to chest, and finish with a long supported rest pose. These restful shapes will help you find space in those tight, overworked ar...

  • Lower Body Activation with Dom | Beginner Mobility Class (12 Minutes)

    Hit pause on your tasks and take a quick mobility break with Dom. Mobility work helps prevent injury and is key to continue living independently as we age. Taking time to tend to your joints is a gift to your future self. Dom guides you through feel-good exercises for your hips, hamstrings, and g...

  • 2-Minute Couch Moves with Amanda | Easy Stretch Class (2 Mins)

    This class is perfect for when you're curled up on the couch on episode 8 of your favourite show. Just two minutes of stretches will open up your body, get your blood flowing, and dissolve any sticky feelings from sitting too long. Amanda will guide you through three simple stretches to target yo...

  • Melty Hips with Lydia | Hip Opening Yoga Class (16 Mins)

    Lydia leads you through a playful class designed to melt tension in your hips and leave you feeling better in your body. Move through a series of strengthening poses including Skandasana (a version of Side Squat) and Warrior, find release with a variety of forward folds and twists, and finish wit...

  • Essential Lower Body with Amanda | Beginner-Friendly Pilates Class (15 Mins)

    Amanda leads you through a short and accessible class that will strengthen and stabilize your lower body. These moves are subtle but powerful; modify where you need and challenge yourself when you can.

    You'll start with a series of functional stretches targeting feet, calves, hips, and groin. No...

  • Lower Body Freedom with Trilby | Beginner-Friendly Pilates Class (17 Mins)

    Hone in on your lower body with this Pilates-inspired class from Trilby. Finding connection through the big muscle groups in your lower body will help you feel held and safe in all your favourite activities. You'll work through variations of glute bridges and leg extensions before coming to stand...

  • Unstick with Lydia | Gentle Yoga Class (12 Mins)

    This short and sweet class is perfect for when you need to take a desk job break. Our desk can be a physical desk, our phones, our car, or anywhere we are in a slightly slumped position that can leave us feeling stuck. Lydia guides you through a gentle sequence of stretches for your shoulders, w...

  • Strength Patterns Practice with Adrian | Functional Strength Class (13 Mins)

    Get ready to move with confidence and stability through four dynamic intervals, resting intentionally between each. Challenge yourself to focus on quality and control with each Agility and foundational strength exercise, allowing your body to move how it was meant to.

    This practice combines a ...

  • Swan with Kate | Hip Opening Yoga Class (24 Mins)

    This class is about moving between strength and softness. Kate incorporates variations on Swan Pose, a deep hip opener, that will leave you feeling open and grounded. This class is Episode 208 of our Namaste Yoga series.

  • Strengthen & Surrender with Erica | Hip & Hamstring-focused Yoga Class (22 mins)

    This moving meditation leads you through a series of postures that will strengthen the hips and hamstrings. Find balance between ease and effort while bringing a sense of curiosity to your experience of each posture. This class is Episode 401 of our Namaste Yoga series.

  • Seated Twist with Kate | Hip Opening Restorative Yoga Class (24 Mins)

    Seated Twist is a rejuvenating and restorative floor sequence. You will flow through poses to open your hips and upper chest to prepare you for Seated Twist. Let your breath lead your practice and find release in restoring yourself today. This is episode 206 of Namaste Yoga.

  • Hip Activation with Dom | Hip-focused Mobility Class (11 Mins)

    Work towards having strong and healthy hips with Dom! This class works on your active flexibility, which is necessary for stable joints and addressing chronic tightness. Dom guides you through four moves: scorpion stretch, windshield wipers, glute thrusts, and seated good mornings. You will work ...

  • Firebird with Kate | Dynamic Hip Opening Yoga Class (24 Mins)

    Firebird puts an emphasis on increasing flexibility in the spine and hips. Kate leads you through a powerful sequence incorporating hero, swan, and firebird pose. If you find any pose challenging on your knees or hips, you can always modify by placing a blanket or block underneath you or replacin...

  • Low Back Relief with Lydia | Restorative Movement Class (30 Mins)

    Choose this mellow class to help you find space, movement, and relief in your low back region. Lydia encourages you to let go of tension with these soothing restorative moves, which are all done low to the ground. Connecting these exercises with slow and gentle breathing will bring awareness to y...

  • Water Light with Kate | Flowing Yoga Class (24 Mins)

    Water Light is a smooth, flowing practice that will open your hips and increase flexibility in the spine, shoulders, and hamstrings. You will move through variations of squat, cross-legged pose, forward fold, and spinal rolls. Allow your breath to lead the transition between poses to feel a sense...

  • Pilates Foundations with Trilby | Beginner Pilates Class (10 Mins)

    Find a new connection to your core and lower body. Trilby leads you and Gio through a class with a little spice, say hello to your inner thighs with fun variations on glute bridges and clamshells! These foundational moves are all about building strength in a way that replenishes and restores. Par...

  • Dancer's Stretch with Livona | Full Body Movement Class (19 Mins)

    Livona guides you through a series of stretches she practices as a dancer to connect to her body. This class combines yoga, Pilates, and functional mobility exercises for a feel-good full body stretch. Feel yourself move like a dancer, finding a sense of fluidity, grace, and play in your movemen...

  • Recharge and Revitalize with Erica | Energizing Yoga Class (22 Mins)

    Allow your breath to be bigger than the movements of your body in this invigorating sequence. You'll move through a dynamic series of yoga poses that will ground you in your strength, open your front body, hips, and back. This is episode 403 of Namaste Yoga.

  • Squat Workshop with Adrian | How to Squat Safely with Weight (3 Mins)

    Begin by standing, feet slightly turned out in comfortable stance. Ground your feet fully into the floor, then lower down into a seated position. Lead with your hips, moving backwards as you pull down. Reach your arms out in front of you, focussing on keeping a neutral spine and activated core. A...

  • Mellow Moves with Lydia | Self-Massage Yoga Class (30 Mins)

    Join Lydia in a gentle yoga class designed to help when you’re feeling sore or tired. This 30-minute practice focuses on your low back, hips, neck, pecs and lats to release tension in your upper body.

    Practice anytime during the day, or add it to your pre-bedtime routine to finish your day rest...

  • Bedtime Tuck with Amanda | Restorative Stretch Class (14 Mins)

    This class will prepare you for a good night's sleep. You can even do it from bed – all you need is a pillow and comfy clothing. Follow Amanda through a series of restorative hip openers, forward folds, and twists, all using your pillow as a restorative prop. Gentle movements, long holds, and cal...

  • Strength Patterns with Adrian | Foundational Strength Class (22 Mins)

    After a mobility sequence to tune into your body, get ready to move with confidence and stability through three dynamic intervals, resting intentionally between each. Challenge yourself to focus on quality and control with each agility and foundational strength exercise, allowing your body to mov...

  • Powered On Practice with Adrian | Functional Strength Class (13 Mins)

    Go all out with this full body strength workout. This practice combines smooth and dynamic Agility drills with Lower Body, Upper Body, and Core focused movements. Powered On will build muscle groups across your entire body, but train your body to move with purpose and ease in your daily movements...

  • NEW | Release Your Hips & Glutes with Lydia | Gentle Stretch Class (26 Mins)

    Join Lydia for a mellow class to release tension from your hips and glutes. You will stay low to the ground and move slowly through a series of restorative stretches. Let yourself unfold into a sense of relaxation. Lydia provides comfort modifications and encourages you to go as deep as you need...