This is such a gentle easy pose to do at anytime during the day- on the mat or not. Yet it offers such a wide variety of benefits to the body and mind. Benefits of this Pose:
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1) Opens those HIP + GROIN Muscles... for all sorts of other playful activity ;)
2) Opens Hip Rotator Muscles; great for people you tend to sit at work all day. 3) Helps ease chronic low back pain (which I can personally attest to) 4) Helps balance your core and open chest in advanced variations (as shown) 5) Calms the mind- thank GOD! Bonus reason: It's a DAMN good release. Physically and Emotionally. Pigeon gets you into that perfect place of hurting so GOOD. So Pigeon up + Feel Good. I LOVE this pose even though it can cause me MUCH discomfort.
Even as a yoga instructor I have my own personal challenges and my hips are quite tight. Relentlessly so that even after a wicked hip opener workshop with Nicki Doane of Maya Yoga (she is phenomenal) that left me so open I was walking different for a week, yet my tight ass hips they still managed to tighten back up! Awesome benefits of this Pose:
Challenge: Try this pose everyday for the month of August! |