Picture this: you’re coming towards the end of a yoga class and your teacher instructs you to come into pigeon pose. As a flexible yogi, you can come into it easily and stay for a while, feeling relaxed while allowing the hips to stretch. Yet when you come out of the pose that sense of release disappears and your hips feel a bit achy and unstable. Maybe even feeling like they need to click or clonk back into place.
Dedicating time during our physical yoga practice to releasing excessive hip tension can be both nourishing and therapeutic for the body. That sense of release in pigeon pose can be pretty addictive for many of us, especially if you’re already quite mobile and can come into it easily. But do you find that despite any amount of stretching, the niggling tension at the front, side or back of the hips still remains? Or even feels a bit worse?
