Transform Your Yoga: Finding ease through the hips
What happens through your spine when your hips cannot move freely?
The hips are remarkable joints — designed to provide both stability and freedom of movement. They influence how we sit, stand and move, and how movement and load are transferred between the legs, pelvis and spine.
Many people experience restriction around the hips, often described as “tight hips” or “tight hamstrings.” Yet what we feel in one area does not always tell the whole story. When movement through the hips is limited, the body intelligently finds another way to complete the action, often with the pelvis and spine adapting in response.
In this practical workshop, we’ll explore how the hips, pelvis and spine share movement within familiar yoga poses. Through accessible anatomy, movement and guided awareness, you’ll be invited to notice where movement is taking place, where effort arises and how thoughtful positioning and support from the Buttafly can create new possibilities for comfort, movement and natural alignment.
Rather than forcing a greater range of movement or treating tightness as something to overcome, we’ll explore how the right conditions can reduce unnecessary effort and allow greater comfort, freedom and ease to emerge.
Suitable for all levels of yoga practitioners, from beginners to experienced teachers.
Join live or watch the recording
The workshop will be held live online via Zoom, giving you the opportunity to learn, ask questions and explore the practice together.
If you can’t make it live, or would simply like to revisit what you’ve learned, everyone who books will receive access to the workshop recording for 7 days.
There will be opportunities to ask questions during the live workshop. If you’d like personalised guidance specific to your own body or practice, one-to-one consultations are also available.
This workshop forms part of Transform Your Yoga, a series exploring the relationship between the spine and the rest of the body — and how support, awareness and curiosity can change the way we experience yoga. Each session brings together accessible anatomy, imagery, movement and guided awareness, inviting you to notice your own patterns and understand your body more deeply through your own experience. Each workshop can be enjoyed on its own or as part of the complete series.
About Loulou James MCSP
Loulou is a Spine Health Specialist, retired physiotherapist, yoga teacher, educator and founder of the Buttafly. Drawing on more than 40 years’ experience, her work explores how the body’s innate intelligence expresses itself through the spine, and how the right conditions can support greater ease, adaptability and balance.
Don’t have a Buttafly yet? You’re still very welcome to join. You’ll gain a deeper understanding of how thoughtful prop use can support your practice and help you decide whether the Buttafly is right for you.