Your hips are not a can that needs to be opened!

You don’t have to go far to find a yoga class or workshop that is either telling you the need to open your hips or citing a laundry list of benefits if you can do so.

The fact is, the hips are a very stable joint. They are not meant to open. They are meant to transfer the force of your legs through the pelvis and into your spine. The real question the prophets of hip opening need to be asking is what effect is the position of your hip joint having on how your spine is moving or not.