How-To Use Blocks with a Hip Stretch

Learn how to use blocks for a hip stretch with Yoga Instructor Shahada Karim. Start by leaning back into the skinny low side of the block before lifting your hips onto the block and laying back until your hips are the highest point of your body. Watch Shahada's How-to for tips on making this stretch go even deeper.

Shahada Karim is a Yoga Teacher and Movement Therapy Guide. Shahada’s self-imposed mission is to help every human she meets, fall in love with themselves. Over the past decade, she’s earned multiple certifications in Yoga, Ayurveda, Nutrition, and Fitness to help facilitate that mission. Previously she dedicated more than two decades to a career in Journalism and Communications. Today she brings that expertise to teaching and participating in health and wellness on both physical and digital fronts. She designed the NOURISH plans around the Ayurvedic principle, with the help of a Nutritionist and Nurse Practitioner, to make it accessible to anyone interested in taking the journey no matter what their current physical and energetic state.