Why do we need to open the hips?

The hip area is very vital in our body since it has the main fundamental chakras: the root and reproductive. These chakras help us to build our foundation, our inner house in order to move in this life. This foundation is also a protector so in order for that protector or “foundation” to be strong you need to maintain it not only on a physical but also on an emotional level. Hips help us to stabilize our body and also help to carry our body. For example, if you have knee pain or ankle pain most of the time it comes from the unbalanced hip. This is why it’s important to open the hips.

Have you noticed how babies have a great range of motion and flexibility? The older we grow, the more we get stiffer due to physical, emotional reasons. We sometimes think that most of the time we are stiff because we are getting older. Another belief – the hip muscles get stiffer and stiffer and one of the reasons is that we have less time to exercise and stretch. But what if I tell you that it’s not only physically applies to your body but also emotionally. During those years we all going through certain experiences that are beautiful and joyful, but sometimes they can be negative and leave bad memories in us. We usually try to forget those experiences as fast as possible and move on to something faster and new. 

Why do we need to open the hips?

While our minds can switch really fast, but our body, our physical bodies sometimes need more time to release those trapped emotions. It is very vital to listen to our body. Also, it is important to study the energetic aspect of our body.

Do you remember the time when you were very angry, and you couldn’t, or it was not a good time to express your emotion? So you suppress it and put it aside thinking next time. But next time also doesn’t really help you to express your emotion, so you sit on it. So after time those emotions stay and collect in your hip area and become tight. You can release this tension with breathing, bathing, also tennis ball rolling, acupressure massage, acupuncture, massage.

Energy is so much more than something clinical and so is our body. When we stretch or do some exercises it is very important to be present and put intention into it. It can be anything from giving gratitude, releasing and letting go intention to the muscle, to the organ, part of the body, or energy. You have to be your own observer. That’s why it is very important to be away from destruction such as electronics, certain sounds, smells, or foods.