Trimming your hips

This workout is designed to stretch and tone the upper thighs and hips. The bound angle pose or baddha konasana stretches the groin and inner thighs.

• Sit with your legs straight out in front of you, raising your pelvis on a blanket if your hips or groins are tight
• Exhale as you bend your knees. Pull your heels toward your pelvis, then drop your knees out to the sides and press the soles of your feet
• Bring your heels as close as you can to your pelvis. Grasp the big toe of each foot with your first and second finger and thumb
• Sit so that the pubis in front and the tailbone in the back are equidistant from the floor. The perineum will then be approximately parallel to the floor and the pelvis in a neutral position. Firm the sacrum and shoulder blades against the back and lengthen the front torso through the top of the sternum