Tight hamstrings are a key problem area for so many of us. Especially I find at this time of year as the weather gets colder, and everything just feels a little less flexible! As much as it’s great to be able to touch your toes, tight hamstrings can also cause issues and are a leading cause of lower back pain and tension in the body!
So here are my favourite 5 poses to get you feeling nice and loose and help those toes get a little closer;
At least once a week I will hear someone say – “I would love to do yoga but I am so in flexible, I can’t even touch my toes”….
Yoga seems to have (yet another) pre-conception, that it is only for flexible people to strut their stuff and show off on the mat. There’s an illusion that to do yoga you need to be a zenned out ballerina on a mountain with her leg behind her head omming away in bliss…. This is not yoga, well at least not for 99.99% of the yogi’s I know! So this blog is for all you stiff people out there, to strip away the excuse of not being flexible enough to give Yoga a go and give you a reason to try it!
