Hip regimen for fixing meditation ouchies
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Hip regimen for fixing meditation ouchies
I’ve been practicing more lately and it’s screwing up my hips, I am fairly physically active still in the martial arts. The combination of those movements with lots of sitting lately is giving me “dancers hip” worse than I’ve ever had it before.
Anyone have a good regimen or routine for working out the rigors of seated meditation on the hips?
Btw I am 46 so I cannot rely on things to just get better, but I want to keep practicing at the amount I am.
Anyone have a good regimen or routine for working out the rigors of seated meditation on the hips?
Btw I am 46 so I cannot rely on things to just get better, but I want to keep practicing at the amount I am.
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Re: Hip regimen for fixing meditation ouchies
Tried a hip foam rolling regimen?
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Re: Hip regimen for fixing meditation ouchies
I have a roller, not sure it would help but it’s worth trying.
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Re: Hip regimen for fixing meditation ouchies
What position are you sitting in?
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Re: Hip regimen for fixing meditation ouchies
Tell us more about this? I am experiencing a lot of hip stiffness.Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 4:13 amI have a roller, not sure it would help but it’s worth trying.
Re: Hip regimen for fixing meditation ouchies
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Re: Hip regimen for fixing meditation ouchies
It's an old article, but I have found it useful: Growing Up a Lotus. For my body, it's most effective to do after doing a bout of exercise (running, cycling, etc.) However it's done, it's important to be very warmed up before doing these. And, I would be super careful with number 3!
Also, this one is my favorite pose: How to Do Pigeon Pose (Eka Pada Rajakapotasana) in Yoga. This gets done after every workout.
_/|\_
Keith
Also, this one is my favorite pose: How to Do Pigeon Pose (Eka Pada Rajakapotasana) in Yoga. This gets done after every workout.
_/|\_
Keith
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being silent, moving, being still.
At all times, in all places, without interruption - what is this?
One mind is infinite kalpas.
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Re: Hip regimen for fixing meditation ouchies
Gomukhasana - the cow face pose.
You could skip the upper part if you like, but the lower part has a good circuitry.
You could skip the upper part if you like, but the lower part has a good circuitry.
I'm too fat to do it exactly because of a hip thing and a busted knee, but I would love to sit in it.stimulating blood flow and easing stiffness from lower parts of the body.
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Re: Hip regimen for fixing meditation ouchies
Thanks all, yeah I think the cow face pose is what I’ll try, so far the only thing that has worked is the ‘Thai sit’ pose /stretch which is similar.
Lucky me I’m home from work with Pink eye, so I can it out today lol.
Lucky me I’m home from work with Pink eye, so I can it out today lol.
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Re: Hip regimen for fixing meditation ouchies
https://blog.paleohacks.com/foam-roller ... exercises/Giovanni wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 9:33 amTell us more about this? I am experiencing a lot of hip stiffness.Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 4:13 amI have a roller, not sure it would help but it’s worth trying.
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འ༔ ཨ༔ ཧ༔ ཤ༔ ས༔ མ༔
ཨོཾ་ཧ་ནུ་པྷ་ཤ་བྷ་ར་ཧེ་ཡེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།།
ཨཱོཾ་མ་ཏྲི་མུ་ཡེ་སལེ་འདུ།།
འ༔ ཨ༔ ཧ༔ ཤ༔ ས༔ མ༔
ཨོཾ་ཧ་ནུ་པྷ་ཤ་བྷ་ར་ཧེ་ཡེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།།
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Re: Hip regimen for fixing meditation ouchies
I could soothen hip pain by doing such exercises.
There are tons of such videos, this is just an example. Maybe you can find one that is especially helpful for you.
I just performed something like this a few times and the pain disappeared.
There are tons of such videos, this is just an example. Maybe you can find one that is especially helpful for you.
I just performed something like this a few times and the pain disappeared.
Re: Hip regimen for fixing meditation ouchies
Thank you, and thank you also Ayu…Losal Samten wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:18 amhttps://blog.paleohacks.com/foam-roller ... exercises/Giovanni wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 9:33 amTell us more about this? I am experiencing a lot of hip stiffness.Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 4:13 am
I have a roller, not sure it would help but it’s worth trying.