Hip Trinkle Chick, August 7th, 2007.

Bonjour, this is Kimberly Wilson and welcome to the 94th edition of the Hip Trinklechick

podcast, a girl's guide to life on and off the yoga mat.

Today's menu features, of course, a must-have pose and on-the-mat.

More discussions of dear hip-trinkle-chick questions and off-the-mat.

And we've got homework and savvy sources for you, too.

View our show notes at hittrinklechick.com slash blog.

For on-the-mat, I'm doing one of my favorite hip

opening poses, which I think every hip opening pose is one of my favorites. And it's called

Starfish Pose. And it's very similar to Badakanasana. So go ahead and come onto your yoga

mat, get nice and comfortable. You're going to be sitting and take the flesh from the sitting bones.

Kind of pull it back and get those sitting bones grounded.

And then bring your feet about 16 inches from the body.

So rather than having the heels drawn up toward the body in Badakanasana, we keep the soles

of the feet together, but we just move the feet about 16 to 18 inches from the body.

So you've got a perfect diamond shape down between the heels and the knees and the groin.

And from here, inhale, lift through the heart center, and then exhale, hinge from

your hips as you fold forward. And you can stay there anywhere from 30 seconds to five minutes.

So this is divine, delightful for the outer hips, for the back, for the neck. And those of you

who are a bit more flexible, you can rest the forehead into the crook of the

feet, into the little arch of the feet.

So enjoy Starfish Pose.

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