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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Learn Half Kneeling Hip Stretch with Adrian (3 Mins)
From standing, kneel down onto one knee, with your opposite knee at a 90° angle in front. The top of your rear foot should be rested on the floor with stability. Tuck in your pelvis to feel a lengthening stretch in the front of your hip, extending up through your torso. The majority of your weigh...
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Presence | Hips Don't Lie by Shakira | Choreography Dance Class (32 Mins)
Hannah from Formation Studio leads you through a fun choreographed routine to Hips Don't Lie by Shakira. Choreography is as much a mental challenge as it is a physical challenge. This class has a beginner-friendly approach and is welcoming to those who have never learned choreography before. This...
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FREEDOM | Ep 4 | Dance-based Fitness Class (29 Mins)
Danielle from Formation Studio leads you through an energetic and fun cardio dance party. Inspired primarily by hip hop but pulling from different genres and styles, Freedom classes lay a foundation of follow along movements and use repetition to build you up at an intensity and pace that suits y...
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Learn Banded Deadbug with Adrian (2 Mins)
Sitting on the ground, loop your resistance band around the top of your feet. Lay on your back and lift your knees to line up above your hips, bent at 90 degrees. Keep your feet flexed towards your shins and slightly apart to hold the band in place. Clasp your hands in front of your chest comfort...
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Full Body Charge Up with Dom | Strength & Cardio-Focused Class (5 Mins)
In this short but satisfying class, Dom guides through the Pulse Squat, T-Spine Rotation, Bear Plank, Hip Bridge, Eagle Stretch, and Prone Vertical Jump. This is a 5-minute challenge you can add to your day when your energy is dipping or you are running low on time.
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Free Your Hips | Beginner Belly Dancing Class (24 Mins)
Belly dancing will connect you to your hips and core in new ways! In this class, you will learn the fundamental belly dancing moves, head slides and hip circles, and the traditional belly dance moves, basic Egyptian step and Turkish figure-eight. Finally, you will move through choreographing them...
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Graceful Hips | Intermediate Hip-focused Belly Dancing Class (24 Mins)
This class builds on a fundamental belly dancing skill — hip isolations. You will move through three variations to challenge your technique: the hip-bounce, maya hips, the Egyptian-figure-eight. Then, learn the graceful three-step-turn before moving on to the final performance where you will comb...
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Cool Down with Keighty | Hips & Glutes Release Class (3 Mins)
Incorporating a Cool Down practice transitions your body into a state of rest and reduces the likelihood of injury as you recover and resume your daily activities. This full body Cool Down will focus on flexibility movements to loosen up large muscle groups, gradually relax, and slow your heart r...
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Learn T-Spine Twist to Sunshine Squat with Keighty (2 Mins)
This movement combo will warm up your full body and work your mobility in both the hips and spine. To start your T-Spine Twist, stand at top of your mat and begin to soften your knees into a forward fold, exhaling into it. Focus on hinging at your hips and engaging your back to keep from rounding...
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Get Ready with Adrian | Full Body Functional Movement Class (9 Mins)
Adrian designed this class to prepare you for movement. This is your go-to class to take before a game of tennis, hike, a round of golf, or any activity where you will be challenging yourself. Adrian will guide you through a series of ankle, knee, hip, and shoulder mobility drills, work on your b...
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Hips Don’t Lie | Hip-focused Belly Dancing Class (23 Mins)
One of the core components of belly dancing is incorporating beautiful hip movements. This class breaks down two classic hip isolations, the hip piston and the hip pop. You will also learn the 1, 2, 3, hop and a classic upper body move, snake arms. Take time for your body to integrate these isola...
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Air Practice with Kate | Build Hip & Hamstring Flexibility (13 Mins)
Working with a slow and calming breath, Kate takes you through a series of poses with a focus on staying close to the ground. This grounding yoga class, designed to increase your hip and hamstring flexibility, will leave you feeling centered and refreshed.
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Mornings with Dom | Neck Mobility & Athletic Core Class (12 Mins)
Dom starts this practice by guiding you through a series of neck mobility exercises designed to increase your range of motion, strength, posture, and alleviate tension. Next is a series of athletic core moves, Kneeling Hip Striders, Stationary High Knees, Eccentric Crunch Twists, Single Arm Front...
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Rise with Kate | Weighted Yoga Class (24 Mins)
Rise combines powerful standing poses with calming breath and deep stretches, using a single weight to add strength and depth to each movement. This slow and methodical sequence creates space and flexibility across the entire body, focusing on the hips, hamstrings, and calves, while intentionally...
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Lunge and Transitions with Kate (4 Mins)
Lunge pose is a foundational pose for many different types of movement practices, including yoga. Lunges strengthen the core, the legs, and increase stability in the hips.
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NEW | Daily Yoga with Lydia | Everyday Yoga Class (27 Mins)
Join Lydia in this practice for your hips and spine, and move through a range of exercises that will reduce pain and promote longevity. Try this class when you want to energize your body, release sticky tissue, or wind down from exercising. Lydia will also lead you through breath work that will b...
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NEW | Fully Restore with Lydia | Restorative Yoga Class (15 Mins)
Join Lydia for a short and deeply restorative yoga practice. In just 15 minutes, you will feel the benefits of letting your body fully relax into these healing poses.
Begin with a gentle chest opener, move into a supported twist, and then a satisfying figure-four hip opener. Lydia will lead you ...
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Gentle Morning Stretch with Lydia | Grounding Yoga Class (35 Mins)
Join Lydia on the mat for a grounding floor class that gently opens up your body. This practice builds on the yawns and stretches your body is called to do naturally as you awaken. You will stay low to the ground and move through spinal waves, twists, and a side-lying hip sequence. Focus on contr...
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Feel Better with Lydia | Full Body Yoga Class (26 Mins)
Lydia designed this class with a simple but powerful goal in mind, to support you to feel better. By connecting these intentional movements to your breath, you will find space to bring yourself into the present moment, land in your body, and most importantly, be yourself. You will begin with simp...
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IT Band Release with Lydia | Restorative Stretch Class (24 Mins)
Follow Lydia through a stretch class to release tension through the lateral lines of your legs, with an emphasis on the IT band region, hamstrings, and outer hips. These moves are all done on your back and designed for those "big days" when you've been on the go. Stretches are held for longer per...
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FREEDOM | Ep 1 | Dance-based Fitness Class (29 Mins)
Danielle from Formation Studio leads you through an energetic and fun cardio dance party. Inspired primarily by hip hop but pulling from different genres and styles, Freedom classes lay a foundation of follow along movements and use repetition to build you up at an intensity and pace that suits y...
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Mornings with Keighty | Energizing Mobility & Stability Class (6 Mins)
Gently wake up your body with Keighty, set an intention for how you want to feel today, and move through a series of mobility, rotation, and stability moves incorporating Cat/Cow, Hamstring Arm Swings, Back Lunge Rotation to Knee Raises, Rotational Energy Squats, and Plank Marches.
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Your Turn | Take Your First Athletic Strength Class with Tarry (33 Mins)
Your Turn is a new series featuring community members taking a turn at a new form of movement. These classes are a follow-along format and are designed to be beginner friendly. If you've ever wanted to try HIIT, kickboxing, or dance but are unsure where to start or if this type of movement is for...
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Align Your Axis with Erica | Spinal Alignment Yoga Class (22 Mins)
Awaken your whole body with this powerful sequence. This class will strengthen your core and open your hamstrings in preparation for challenging standing twists. Working with your full range of spinal movement will help you come back to your centre, and find alignment in your practice. This is E...