Sunday, 28th December, 4:00PM-5:30PM
An Intelligent & Alignment-Based Approach to Deep Hip Mobility
The hips are one of the most complex and deeply held areas of the body—often storing tension, restriction, and unconscious holding patterns. This workshop offers a safe, progressive, and mindful exploration of hip-opening asanas, guided by anatomical understanding, alignment awareness, and breath.
Rather than chasing flexibility, this session focuses on building intelligent range of motion—learning how to enter, stay in, and exit postures with clarity, stability, and respect for the body’s signals.
This is an intensive yet supportive, practice-based workshop designed to help you approach deeper hip-opening postures with confidence, awareness, and sustainability.
What You Can Expect to Gain
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
• Understand how intermediate to advanced hip-opening asanas increase range of motion safely and sustainably
• Learn how to enter, hold, and exit poses with correct alignment—without forcing flexibility
• Gain clarity on common misalignments in hip-opening postures and how to correct them
• Learn intelligent modifications and variations to make challenging poses more accessible
• Understand how to adapt a posture when the body experiences discomfort, stiffness, or resistance
• Develop sensitivity to the difference between sensation and pain, and how to respond wisely
• Cultivate awareness of when to deepen a pose and when to soften, guided by the body’s signals
• Build confidence in exploring deeper asanas with intelligence, not pressure or strain
What the Session Includes
This workshop is a thoughtfully sequenced blend of movement, education, and integration, including:
• A progressive asana practice beginning with beginner-friendly preparatory movements, moving through intermediate transitions, and exploring selected advanced hip-opening postures
• Detailed guidance on the muscles involved in hip opening, including hip flexors, extensors, rotators, and adductors
• A clear understanding of how the hip joint functions and how to safely increase mobility
• Step-by-step breakdowns of how to approach deeper poses—even if the full expression of the posture is not accessible
• Exploration of variations, props, and transitions to support different bodies, abilities, and limitations
• Practical tools to recognize sensations versus pain and respond with awareness and self-regulation
• A calming closing sequence designed to settle the nervous system and help integrate the effects of deep hip opening, leaving you relaxed, grounded, and balanced
Who This Workshop Is For
Highly recommended for:
• Regular yoga practitioners (intermediate level and above)
• Practitioners curious about deep hip opening but unsure how to approach it safely
• Those experiencing stiffness, tightness, or discomfort in the hips
• Yoga students who want to understand alignment and anatomy—not just flexibility
Not recommended for:
• Individuals with acute hip injuries or recent surgeries, unless cleared by a medical professional
Price - 999/- exld GST
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Samrudhi Kaushik is a yoga instructor, artist, and sustainable living enthusiast. Her journey has been shaped by a deep curiosity about how movement, art, and nature can help individuals feel more at home within themselves. Over the years, this curiosity evolved into a way of life - one rooted in daily yoga and meditation, artistic exploration for expression and healing, and a commitment to living gently on the Earth.
With a background in architecture, Samrudhi also holds a strong interest in designing eco-conscious, natural living spaces. Her passion for sustainability is reflected in her everyday choices - embracing a vegan and minimal lifestyle, composting, creating bio-enzymes, using natural cleaners, and relying on local transport. Volunteering in various communities has further deepened her awareness, encouraging her to question societal norms and align her actions with what truly resonates with her values.
At Nihshreyasa, she offers Hatha and advanced yoga classes, art therapy sessions, and creative workshops ranging from crochet to mandala making—inviting those who wish to slow down, connect, and create. As a yoga instructor, Samrudhi designs her classes to help students release stress and anxiety through breath-focused, slow, and mindful movement. Each session is intended to be grounding and calming, offering a gentle return to the self and space to tune into the physical and emotional landscape within.
Always in a process of learning and unlearning, Samrudhi looks forward to growing alongside the community she becomes part of.
