Are you tired of scrolling through Youtube for the best hip-opening yoga video, just to start one, and hate the style or poses? I am with you and here for you. This is why I tried over 15 hip-opening youtube yoga videos, and evaluated them based on length, poses, talking, and yoga style.

 Keep reading for the best hip-opening youtube yoga videos + my not-so-hot take on them. 

I know the pains of starting a yoga class on youtube, hating it, then just giving up. It brings me from zen-mode to bitch-mode before my first chaturanga.  However, I have come up with a solution to this problem.

To help you and myself avoid this type of breakdown, I have sampled numerous hip-opening yoga videos on Youtube.

Hip-Opening Yoga- Personal Preferences

My personal preferences that I used to rank the following hip-opening yoga videos.

• Style: Yin
• Lazy, on the floor stretches
  • Seriously, if I am going to do hip-opening yoga, I want to stretch. A big hell no to wasting my time and energy holding warrior-2 (unless vinyasa is what I am going for.)
• Minimal-moderate amount of talking
  • If a teacher is talking about the pose for the entire length of the pose, I am out. 

I also include information about each video that will also be listed, so you can choose for yourself which Hip-opening yoga practice to do!

Information About Each Yoga Video

Listed below are the video links, key poses, time, amount of talking, and some key phrases. I included each video I tried; good, bad, and ugly. I will start with my favorite hip-opening youtube yoga videos, and end with the ones I felt were a waste of time. Enjoy!

Best Youtube Yoga For Tight Hips

#1 – 30 Minute Deep Hip Opening Yoga Practice (Level 2)

Poses: 3-legged dog, down dog, chair, forward folds, low lunge, high lunge, half split, pyramid, malasana, half pigeon, double pigeon

Talking: Minimal, only for instructions

Time: 30 m

Style: guided stretching

Rate: 10/10

+: great flow: low lunge, half split, high lunge, pyramid.

Poses: Reclined pigeon, reclined hero, low lunge, half split, pigeon, square, lizard, ½ shoelace

Talking: minimal-moderate

Time: 30 minutes

Style: Yin/stretch

Rate: 10/10

+: Nice and relaxing, not a lot of effort required. Gives you space to focus on your breath.

#3 Yin Yoga For Flexibility A Sore Hip & Hamstring Love Song

Poses: Seated forward fold, lizard, lunge variations, happy baby, butterfly

Talk: Constant

Time: 25 m

Style: Yin (3 minutes/pose)

Rate: 10/10

+: “Walk it out on the spot,” “Everyone’s favorite, savasana.”

#4- 20 min Yoga Stretch for Hips & Hamstrings

Pose: lying knee to chest and hamstring stretch, happy baby, folded butterfly, lizard, reclined shoelace,  pyramid, pigeon   

Talking: minimal-moderate

Time: 20m

Style: guided stretch

Rate:9/10

+: Great to come back to as a staple of flexibility routine, quick. 

#5 Yin Yoga for Hips & Psoas | Soft Flow To Release Stuck Emotions

Poses: butterfly, forward fold, lizard, frog, single-leg seated forward fold, twists

Talking: minimal

Time: 30 m

Style: Yin

Rate: 8/10

+: “Aesthetic is always second to sensation.” A very relaxing, not too intense practice. 

20 min Morning Yin Yoga – HIPS & HAMSTRINGS

Poses: laying hamstring stretch/legs up, thread the needle child’s pose, double pigeon/square pose 

Talking: minimal, gentle music

Time: 20 minutes

Style: Yin

Score: 10/10

+: relaxing, great stretch, stay on the floor great for sore legs. 

Yoga For Hips, Hamstrings, and Lower Back with David Procyshyn

Poses: single leg side stretch, butterfly fold, seated forward fold, seated pigeon, knee to chest, lying hamstring stretch, reclined pigeon, baby cradle leg.

Talking: Minimal

Time: 47 min

Style: yin, slow stretch

Rate: 8/10

+: pretty intense stretch, doesn’t always agree with my low back

Yin Yoga Deep Stretch Class | Release All That No Longer Serves You

Poses: Child’s pose, seated forward fold, pigeon, frog, dragonfly

Talking: LOTS, constant

Time: 30 min

Style: Yin

+: “Let it go”

Yoga For Sore Legs, Hips, & Lower Back | RECOVERY & FLEXIBILITY

Poses: lizard, low lunge, pyramid, seated forward fold, savasana

Talking: moderate amount-constant

Time: ~25 minutes

Style: yin

+: “A little movement can take your pose and amplify it, to the exponent of 10, or more,” “This is your lizard, it’s incredible”

10 Minute Yoga for Hip and Lower Back Tension Relief

Poses: butterfly fold, pigeon, seated twists

Talking: minimal

Time: 10m

Style: guided stretch, yin-like

Rate: 6/10

+: Great, quick stretch to break up your workday or in between sitting. I didn’t like the guidance she gave, it was a bit confusing and I found myself setting up for the wrong posture before she would finish explaining. 

Worst of Youtube Yoga For Tight Hips

These hip-opening yoga videos were my least favorite.

Yoga For Hip Flexibility | Hip Opening Stretches For Tight Hips

Pose: child’s pose, bridge, happy baby, lying supine twists, savasana 

Talking: moderate

Time: 14m 

Style: yin, holding stretches

Rate:2/10

+: “You can never give yourself too many hugs”

Hot take: This video felt like a waste of time, it didn’t feel like the poses were stretching my hips, and I thought it was boring.

Yoga Flow For Tight Hips with Caley Alyssa

Video Link

Poses: Hold goddess squat, lizards, pigeon, reclined pigeon, frog posture

Talking: a lot, nonstop, no talk of breathwork

Time:  15 mins

Style: Guided stretch

+: I stopped 5 minutes in. Seemed like guided stretching, not yoga. She would explain the postures in a way that annoyed me.

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I hope you love these yoga classes as much as I did! Breathe into the discomfort, and make those hips and hamstrings happy!

Were there any great videos that I missed?

Any bad ones I missed? (It seems like most of the practices I tried were great!)

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I love yoga and I love you

Namaste, and keep living your hippie fantasies!

Shley <3