Are Hip Openers Bad for Your Hips?
Hip Openers: Benefits, Kinesiology and Precautions
Many yoga classes speak about the benefits of hip "opening", and yet surprisingly, the most common injuries in yoga are related to the hips - back pain, QL issues, piriformis syndrome, labrum tears, SI Joint and knee issues. This begs the question - what are we actually doing in hip openers?
It is a little mind boggling, the number of yoga teachers who have tension, tightness, aches or pain, and shrug their shoulders and say "that is just the way it is". Many have become so used to the pain that it is as normal for them as breathing. They are right, to a point. While pain is a normal physiological process, it doesn't have to be a normal way of living their life, or practicing yoga.
Susi Hately: Are Hip Openers Bad for Your Hips?
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Susi Hately is the owner and principal instructor of Functional Synergy Inc. She started yoga in 1995 after becoming frustrated with her recurring injuries as a teenage athlete. She credits yoga with getting her back running. Having experienced the benefits of yoga, she began showing her kinesiology patients the yoga exercises and breathing techniques that had helped her. She became certified as a yoga instructor and has been teaching since January 1999. In May, 2000 she traveled to India to study with Dr. Karandikar at Kabir Baug, an institute dedicated to teaching Yoga therapy.
Susi believes that many of the problems that we face in our busy lives can be overcome by developing a sense of awareness, and by cultivating a source of relaxation. Yoga enables you to be balanced, connected, and inspired - to feel the flow of body, mind and soul. She uses her training and experience in kinesiology, yoga, iRest (yoga nidra), rehabilitation, ergonomics, and modern mind-body science to develop yoga books, DVDs, CDs, streaming video and audio clips for people who are stressed, injured or sick.