Find Flexibility and Release Your Tight Hips With 7 Soothing, Hip-Opening YouTube Yoga Classes

In yin yoga, you soothe your muscles and your mind by holding each pose for an extended period of time. In this video from Boho Beautiful, that's two minutes, which gives you time to fully melt into hip-opening stretches like lizard and pigeon. It's one of my favourite videos from this YouTube yogi.

The psoas muscle, which connects your upper thigh bone to your lower back, can get tight and lead to back pain, so it's important to keep it loose and healthy. Starting with this Yoga With Adriene video; it's focussed on uncinching that hip flexor with gentle lunges and cat-cow variations.

This quick 10-minute practice focuses on unlocking the stiffness in your hips and promoting flexibility and mobility with relaxing exercises like hip circles and low lunges.

Any yoga sequence that starts with a wide-legged Child's Pose is a good one in my book, and I love the smooth, natural flow of this practice. You transition through several gentle lunge postures and finish with a quad stretch that feels like heaven.

This hip-opening practice is slow, gentle, and great for beginners. You start in a reclined figure four posture and maintain that form through many other moves, including a supine spinal twist, so you're stretching out your tightest hip muscles the whole time.

This gorgeous yoga practice, filmed at the site of an old temple in Cambodia, takes you through challenging hip postures like low side lunges and ultra-low squats to get the absolute most out of your hip muscles. This practice is more advanced, so feel free to modify to suit your needs.

Sore hips can lead to back pain, so it's no wonder that Adriene Mishler of the popular channel Yoga With Adriene paired the two muscle groups up in this relaxing flow.