hi all,
i’m the nubie want to ask about hips opening,
already search on internet we can use like pigeon and cobbler pose, how much exercise in one day to process the hips opening it is enought 1 hour practicing a day?? and how many sets we must do. I’m confused to make the asanas sequence to fokus on hips opening…since i’m very beginner doing yoga…
I want to doing this open hips because it has great benefit, spiritual and healt for body as well.
awaiting your answer…thanks in advance 
Liz,
There is no one-size-fits-all formula. No thing works the same way for all people, in all cases.
Pigeon (Exa Pada Rajakapotasana) is not a pose for delivering hip opening. It is a pose that requires hip opening. Of course once there is some opening in that movement of the student’s hip, yes there is also some opening provided. But this illustrates the difference between poses that offer hip opening and poses that require it.
The hips have eight movements. One of them is the nature of the hips for a being that stands erect and so that one is not worked at all. So there are basically six things worked in the seventh way (traction). It is best to find a teacher who knows these things and can impart them to you in a supine position to maintain the safety and integrity of your sacrum and lower back.
With the sequence we teach in Purna Yoga you can do it as much as you like, though I often do not expect students to do it more than twice per day. Right stuff, right thoughts, right living, effort, sound teacher, and patience!
I think how much you practice yoga- hip openers or whatever depends on the other activities that you engage in.
One the goal of yoga or any pose is to practice the pose. Sure there are benefits to pose, pigeon or other poses but, try to think of yoga as a practice of the “now” sort.
That said, if you do something all day that makes your hips tighter and tighter, you will have practice poses that counter that more than someone who does not do activities that cause tight hips. I hope that makes sense.
An example is, I have a wonderful student who is also a dentist. She has been a dentist for a long time. Her spine is beginning to round and her upper back is extremely tight. She asked me what should could to help her. I told her that she needed to do certain poses and that she needed to do them every day and maybe two or three times a day to counter an entire day of being hunched over her patients.
thanks all for the quick reply, sorry to find this late, since my uncle got stroke because high blood pressure and i have take care of him.i just realized that i too much want when doing yoga but now i just do the best and enjoy every progress without always asking what the result :). Wew it just more close to the new year, happy holiday all and have a great new year of 2011.
Liz,
so sorry to hear about your Uncle. I hope he is doing well now?
I want to suggest to you to visit http://www.yogatoday.com
you can sign up for free, then take a look at the classes they offer. I am sure you can search for hip opener classes, then watch and do the class if you like. I don’t doubt there are quite a few classes on there! I swear by yogatoday because their classes don’t have that awful commercialized feel. They feel like normal people in the outdoors giving a real yoga class, and it feels very natural.
Good luck!
hai joanne, thx 4 asking my uncle, he still can’t talk becoz of it.will check your link then.thanks 
Already check the yogatoday, it’s in us unfortunately i’m in indonesia.thanks anyway
[QUOTE=indiandairy;46167]Yoga is good for the health.[/QUOTE]
yes that’s true.but not everybody realized this including me, i do yoga because knee injured.i got something bad first before know about yoga.
It’s on the internet - you should be able to access it - I know there are users from Japan who do the classes using yogatoday as well. I suppose I’ll have to go look to make sure I don’t refer others who may be in countries that can’t recieve it - is it because of the video format or something?
Edit: I just looked, there are users in Guam, France, Australia, Costa Rica… are you sure you can’t use it?