A tutorial + a simple practice for exploring emotions.

Our hips are ball-and-socket joints, meaning they naturally have more range-of-motion than other types of joints. However, if we don’t allow our hips to access this wide range-of-motion, they can start to feel blocked or even stuck physically. Our hips also correlate to our emotions. If we don’t tend to the wide variety of human emotions, we can feel blocked or stuck emotionally. ⁣
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Try spending a few minutes in these two simple yet effective yoga poses - Easy Pose and Child’s Pose. ⁣

Watch the video tutorial on the Easy Pose and Childs Pose. Use props to alleviate any pain or extreme discomfort anywhere in your body.
Breathe big as you hold each yoga pose for up to 3-4 minutes. Your body will tell you through sensation when you’ve had enough. Feel your way through.
Allow any physical hip sensations or emotional sensations that arise to be felt. Use your breath to ride the waves of sensation that flow in such as physical hip sensations like stretch, tension, discomfort. If emotional sensations flow in, do the same and use your breath to allow the emotions to be felt. You are safe to feel your emotions, as they are simply a form of communication from your body.
If there is a lingering emotional sensation see if you can name it. Is it anxiety, shame, fear, gratitude, happiness, love? Once you’ve identified it, let it be seen, heard, acknowledged. Simply having a conversation with the emotion/sensation is enough. I know this may seem odd but it has been very helpful for me to get to know my emotions through simple yoga, breath and chit chat with my body. The more I understand each emotion, the more I can honor them, and the more easily they flow in and out.
Journal or voice memo what came in when you allowed your hips to open.