We’ll begin with an in-depth anatomical lecture to help you better understand the structure and function of your hips and hamstrings. Rather than offering a one-size-fits-all approach, this workshop invites you to appreciate your own unique skeletal shape, joint orientation, and muscular patterns. With this foundational knowledge, you’ll be empowered to adapt your practice in ways that truly serve your body.
Tightness in the hips and hamstrings often develops from everyday habits—running, sitting, walking, stress, or repetitive movement patterns. Over time, unconscious compensation and postural habits can create restriction, discomfort, or pain. By deepening your understanding of anatomy and common yoga alignment cues, you’ll begin to unravel tension and create sustainable, functional mobility.
A special highlight of this workshop is our partnered mobility exploration. You’ll team up to explore hip joint and hamstring mobility together, using guided techniques to better understand your own anatomical structure. Through observation, feedback, and supported movement, you’ll gain insight into how your bones move within the joint, where your natural boundaries lie, and how to work with—not against—your body.
Following the lecture and partner work, we’ll move into an integrated practice that weaves together Yang and Yin styles:
- Yang flow to build heat, strength, and length, particularly along the back line of the body and around the full circumference of the hips.
- Yin postures to gently target the joints and connective tissues, inviting deep release and restoration.
Props will be thoughtfully incorporated to ensure that every participant feels both supported and appropriately challenged.
Throughout the workshop, you’ll learn how to strengthen and stabilize these regions while cultivating greater mobility and ease. As we work toward a variety of peak postures, you’ll experience how balancing effort and surrender creates spaciousness, resilience, and freedom in the body.
Each participant will receive a detailed PDF handout filled with key insights and practical tools to continue exploring long after the workshop ends.
Are you ready to stretch, strengthen, and discover new possibilities within your body? We can’t wait to move, learn, and explore together.
Please note: this workshop is 3 hours long.
Cost: $45
Financial Aid Available
For more information on Jot Anant, please visit her website at www.JotAnant.org, or see her teacher profile here. Jot Anant teaches weekly donation-based Vinyasa Flow Thursdays 9-10:30am, Warm Yin Fridays 6-7:15pm and Gentle Flow Saturdays 9-10am.
PLEASE NOTE:Â We encourage pre-registration for all programming. Registering in advance guarantees your spot and helps the studio have adequate staffing. If fewer than 5 participants register the event may be canceled.
Refund Policy:Â We understand that life happens and unforeseen circumstances come up. If life offers up an unexpected event and you need to withdraw from the workshop:
- A full refund will be issued if you need to withdraw 4+ days before the workshop.
- If you need to withdraw within 3 days or fewer, no refund is provided.
Please create a Mindbody account for each participant if registering more than 1 person. If you have any questions regarding registration, or financial aid, please email Kelsey at  kelsey@ashevillecommunityyoga.orgÂ
