Hip-Healthy Asana: The Yoga Practitioner’s Guide to Protecting the Hips and Avoiding SI Joint Pain

The yoga practitioner’s essential guide to understanding, preventing, and relieving hip pain in asana practice.

The mind and body benefits of daily yoga practice are unquestionably positive, but as yoga has become more popular, an increasing number of yoga practitioners are suffering from hip and lower back pain and intense sacroiliac joint discomfort. The urge to push yourself too far, too fast, along with forceful adjustments by well-meaning yoga instructors, can result in hip pain caused by hypermobility–too much flexibility or excessive range of motion. Because of the nature of the hip joint, these enthusiastic practitioners often do not feel the effects of their practice until they wake up one day with immobility and debilitating pain.

Hip-Healthy Asana is a concise, practical guide that will teach you how to protect your hips as you practice–and will help you adapt your practice as necessary if hip problems do develop. Yoga and meditation teacher Charlotte Bell gives a complete, accessible explanation of the hip structure, and offers practice tips, modifications, and sequences that enhance hip strength and stability for a sustainable practice that can last through every age and stage of life.