This relaxing 20 Minute Deep Stretch Yoga For Hamstrings routine will stretch and lengthen your hamstrings with a series of supine and propped positions. Great for increasing flexibility! Try the 💙 *HIPS SLOW STRETCH:* bit.ly/25minHIPS
I went from not being able to stand long enough to finish a load of dishes because of a birth injury to learning to do things that I couldn't even do in my early twenties! These videos have changed my life forever and they are still changing me. Thank you Sarah Beth! ☺️
Good morning SarahBeth. I found your video series earlier this week and have been following most days and forwarding your link to friends. What I appreciate most is the time for each pose. I've always preferred a slower pace so my muscles can fully engage or relax depending on the particular posture or routine. Your videos are 'clean', no distractions, very well made. Thank you for putting these together and making them available.
I've never been able to sit straight up with my legs straight out without being in severe pain (I am very flexible in every other part of my body though, so it's always surprised my dance and yoga teachers) so I'm hoping doing this everyday will help me make great strides in finally being able to comfortably touch my toes. Edit: If this doesn't work I'll see a doctor about other possible causes, but I'm hoping I was just born with unusually tight hamstrings and can fix it with stretching.
i relate to this alot! some days, i have to do a lot of self-testing to check if i need stretching or strengthening. if it's chronically tight like that, i found out via my physical therapist that in my case (of course everyone is different, so definitely get your own doctor's opinion), i was stretching my chronically tight hamstrings and in the long run, that wasn't the way to go - what i needed to do was to strengthen them because my sciatic nerve seemed to be the problem. in short, my hamstrings were tightening because they were trying to protect my sciatic nerve. so i learned a lot about nerve flossing as well (apparently that's a thing with a weird name?), and also a bunch of hamstring strengthening exercises to go along with the occasional hamstring stretches (aka why i am on this video). bottom line, for sure see a doctor but i never knew that for years and thought i was just born with insane hamstrings until my PT told me, so i am passing on my info. best of luck to you!
This! I remember losing this ability when I was seven. I blame all the hours of forced desk sitting. I regained this ability recently but it's taken so much work!
hi .. i m a new yoga teacher .. just did my course ... but i m finding it difficult to open my hamstring .. and i feel i ve found the best solution .. thanks sarah beth.
Sarah. Love your yoga videos...it's just the right amount of holds for each stretch to fully appreciate the pose. Thank you. Great way to recover and focus on my flexibly and mobility training!
Hey Sarah. I've lived with scoliosis my entire life and recently it has been getting worst. But I came across your videos and have been doing your restorative and stretching yoga and it's been helping a lot!! The videos are really well done and relaxing and I feel it working. Thank you so much!
+Ted Chiasson I'm so glad you found these videos then! I also have scoliosis and I made a Yoga For Scoliosis series that you can find in this Yoga For Back Health playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLP7Ou7uUiYzAo-48PkugdXQ8cD0xL-uPQ.html :)
Thank you! thank you! I needed a greater stretch for my splits because my hamstrings weren't ready but your video helped me get it down the first day, awesome video!
New subscriber and I love your videos! This one is great for me because, like a previous commenter, I get pain when I stretch the hamstring behind the knee. But after years of avoiding it, I'm committed to stretching it out! I'm hoping to be able to touch my toes in the next 5 years... lol Thanks for all your amazing routines!
Good morning! Deep hamstring and deep hip I find great before and after the days I have long drives for client visits in the city. Sitting in the car for hours puts a lot of strain and tension in these areas. Thank you SarahBeth for the videos. I have a bit of scoliosis also so I'm going to check out those videos you linked below. :)
really helpful. I sit at a desk all day and tighten my lower back and hips regularly. i look forward to doing These simple stretches right after every shift, I feel so revitalized afterwards. thanks for sharing these great videos ☺
fabulous video! I loved the slow pace. loved the focus on hamstrings with all the different poses. Love that there is a series that loops together... will have to try that and check out the restorative play list. Thank you Sarah beth
Hi Sarah. You are the one i was searching for. I have done yoga with so many teachers. One on One,Group classes & many more but i just loved the way you do it and give enough time for deep engage and relaxinging of mucles. Thanks Please keep Posting. also something for knees
Hi Sarah. Thank you so much for the 20 minute series. I am loving them and I am really enjoying yoga. I am recovering from a golf injury I suffered 2 years ago. I have never been very flexible but the 2 year break from golf has made even less flexible. When I do the wide legged forward fold, I can't move my chest and heart more than a few inches further than I am sitting up. I feel a lot of tension (no pain) through my lower back and in my hamstrings. I wondered if this because of hamstrings or lower back inflexibility or both?
+Graham Arnott It could definitely be both. Tight hamstrings tend to pull the pelvis under causing more low back strain. Take a standing wide leg fold variation instead and you'll get a lot more out of it. With your feet 4-5 feet wide, and parallel or pigeon toed. Hinge from your hips into the fold. Use your hands to support you and even walk your hands forward to shift weight out of your heels and into the ball mounts of your feet to target the hamstrings (though heels will stay grounded). Basically you're just shifting gravity but making the posture much easier on your body. :)
+SarahBethYoga Thank you so much for the reply. I will carry on doing the wide legged fold to review my progress but when I follow your sessions, I will do as you suggest and do a standing wide legged fold. I know I am not get at this but I know you're right in that I will get much more benefit from it. Thank you SO much.
That was great, I have pulled or did something to my hamstrings yesterday. I have OA and my opposite knee has been the problem . Been doing light yoga and leg and knee strengthening. Is doing your yoga stretches 2x daily ok for my hamstrings? Again I enjoyed your yoga today. I'll be back.
Yes please do me and My Buddy fr.o.m. Work are about startsignalen but he has difficulties opinions on yoga and me of rundning. So yes think you! Sat nam. Namaste
Thanks Sarah, I have to try this routine. I want to add yoga in to my week to supplement my weight training, but my hamstrings are my tightest part. I actually get a horrible pain in the back of my knees when stretching my hams. I really hope this will help
talosdarkpaladin that sounds awful! Use a blanket or 2 for propping your hips and even your knees for a slight bend in these postures if they're uncomfortable. You'll get through it with regular practice & stretching, keep it up!
SarahBethYoga Yeah I suspect that the pain is tight tendons in the connection between my lower hams and my knees. However the only solution I can find is more stretching haha. I'm hoping using your functional Yoga routines will gently stretch the tendons as well as the muscle :) I'll let you know how it goes. I'll be using this one once a week and your level 1 flexibility once a week. Tomorrow is my first day - excited!
perfect practice today. my baker's cyst (which isn't a cyst not sure why they call it that) behind my knee is acting up ...this slow moving helped ...can you do a practice for knees that are sore and weak and sometimes swollen kind of thing chronic? love your work thank you
I practiced yoga for about 3 years and still have very tight hamstrings. Even after years of practice every day, I cannot do "legs up the wall" without being far away from the wall on an angle. My question is this: If I start to do the hip flexor and hamstring routine, do I just keep my knees bent when I do leg stretches with a strap? Or do I keep my legs straight even though I cannot lift them very far off the floor? In the seated forward bend with legs spread and using a bolster, can I bend my knees? Or should I sit on blankets to allow my legs to straighten a little? I would like to get a little bit of stretch in my hamstrings and hip flexors so that my posture improves. After reading about tight psoas muscles, I am sure that this is what contributes to the strange posture I have. Thank you! I love the slower pace!
Hi Sara! I've been doing this yin style video for almost 5 months now at least every week. I also became a member since last week! However, for the forward fold with stretched legs (poses at the end) my spine hurts so bad. I am able to relieve some tension but I still can't rest my face on my bolster. Do you have any recommendations for another video that might help me relieve some tension in my back? -xx-
Try adding more props or even a chair to rest your head on so you can meet your body where it is in the pose. Once you're propped you'll find it much easier to relax over time. Ask this one in our member fb group and you'll get a lot of responses from our other members too that could be helpful 😃
I know I should and accept my body and be kind but it gets pretty frustrating yknw? I have been practicing for about a year now and they are still pretty tight.
@SaraBethYoga Hi Sara.. thank you for these videos. I'm brand new to yoga and they've been great. 2 questions for ya: 1) For all these hamstring poses, am I supposed to flex both feet to activate the hamstrings? I noticed your feet are upright in a 90 degree angle, like there pressing against an imaginary wall. In my resting state, my feet protrude forward. Wouldn't flexing be considered "tension"? 2) Should I wrap my strap over the balls or middle of my feet? Thank you!
Yep! Flex your feet back in the hamstring stretches so your quads engage and in turn your hamstrings will relax and stretch deeper. If it helps you can bend your knees a little. As for your strap, try the balls of your feet, it may help you focus on flexing your feet back, otherwise whatever feels best/right for you!
Don't push the right and nurture the left, instead treat the right like the left only going as deep as you could on the left side. They'll balance out overtime
+Kate Widdows you can use the pillows off your couch or bed 👍🏼 Without props this would be more like Yin, so you might like the Yin videos in the restorative yoga playlist better.
Does everyone have to have everything done for them? What happened to common sense? I grabbed a belt and used the throw blanket off my couch. I didn't use the other pillowy thing.
This relaxing 20 Minute Deep Stretch Yoga For Hamstrings routine will stretch and lengthen your hamstrings with a series of supine and propped positions. Great for increasing flexibility! Try the 💙 *HIPS SLOW STRETCH:* bit.ly/25minHIPS
I went from not being able to stand long enough to finish a load of dishes because of a birth injury to learning to do things that I couldn't even do in my early twenties! These videos have changed my life forever and they are still changing me. Thank you Sarah Beth! ☺️
Thank you for allowing me to be part of your journey! 🙏
Good morning SarahBeth. I found your video series earlier this week and have been following most days and forwarding your link to friends. What I appreciate most is the time for each pose. I've always preferred a slower pace so my muscles can fully engage or relax depending on the particular posture or routine. Your videos are 'clean', no distractions, very well made. Thank you for putting these together and making them available.
I've never been able to sit straight up with my legs straight out without being in severe pain (I am very flexible in every other part of my body though, so it's always surprised my dance and yoga teachers) so I'm hoping doing this everyday will help me make great strides in finally being able to comfortably touch my toes. Edit: If this doesn't work I'll see a doctor about other possible causes, but I'm hoping I was just born with unusually tight hamstrings and can fix it with stretching.
i relate to this alot! some days, i have to do a lot of self-testing to check if i need stretching or strengthening. if it's chronically tight like that, i found out via my physical therapist that in my case (of course everyone is different, so definitely get your own doctor's opinion), i was stretching my chronically tight hamstrings and in the long run, that wasn't the way to go - what i needed to do was to strengthen them because my sciatic nerve seemed to be the problem. in short, my hamstrings were tightening because they were trying to protect my sciatic nerve. so i learned a lot about nerve flossing as well (apparently that's a thing with a weird name?), and also a bunch of hamstring strengthening exercises to go along with the occasional hamstring stretches (aka why i am on this video).
bottom line, for sure see a doctor but i never knew that for years and thought i was just born with insane hamstrings until my PT told me, so i am passing on my info. best of luck to you!
This! I remember losing this ability when I was seven. I blame all the hours of forced desk sitting. I regained this ability recently but it's taken so much work!
Thank you!! Just finished. I need this like every day.
hi .. i m a new yoga teacher .. just did my course ... but i m finding it difficult to open my hamstring .. and i feel i ve found the best solution .. thanks sarah beth.
One of your videos I return to again and again, to stretch these difficult muscles!
This music is beautiful. I think you should incorporate it with your newer practices, especially the restorative ones
Sarah. Love your yoga videos...it's just the right amount of holds for each stretch to fully appreciate the pose. Thank you. Great way to recover and focus on my flexibly and mobility training!
Hey Sarah. I've lived with scoliosis my entire life and recently it has been getting worst. But I came across your videos and have been doing your restorative and stretching yoga and it's been helping a lot!! The videos are really well done and relaxing and I feel it working. Thank you so much!
+Ted Chiasson I'm so glad you found these videos then! I also have scoliosis and I made a Yoga For Scoliosis series that you can find in this Yoga For Back Health playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLP7Ou7uUiYzAo-48PkugdXQ8cD0xL-uPQ.html :)
SarahBethYoga Yes I have also subscribed and started practicing your scoliosis videos. Hopefully I'll see improvement over time. Thanks!
Thank you! thank you! I needed a greater stretch for my splits because my hamstrings weren't ready but your video helped me get it down the first day, awesome video!
Hey SaraBeth,
thanks, really helps my very inflexible self
I love these restorative poses. Thank you so much, Sarah
New subscriber and I love your videos! This one is great for me because, like a previous commenter, I get pain when I stretch the hamstring behind the knee. But after years of avoiding it, I'm committed to stretching it out! I'm hoping to be able to touch my toes in the next 5 years... lol Thanks for all your amazing routines!
My left hamstring has been bothering me for a couple of days since a zumba workout, and this is the only stretch that has helped. So, thank you!
Good morning! Deep hamstring and deep hip I find great before and after the days I have long drives for client visits in the city. Sitting in the car for hours puts a lot of strain and tension in these areas. Thank you SarahBeth for the videos. I have a bit of scoliosis also so I'm going to check out those videos you linked below. :)
Yay! I just finished. ZBeen doing yoga everyday thanks to your videos and other inspirational yogis!!! Thanks sarah-beth !!!
Love this deep stretch series!! I agree with comments below, love taking time for my muscles to soften and relax into the stretch.
really helpful. I sit at a desk all day and tighten my lower back and hips regularly. i look forward to doing These simple stretches right after every shift, I feel so revitalized afterwards. thanks for sharing these great videos ☺
Thanks so much for these videos, I've learned so much and have already made great strides. Keep up the great work.
This is fantastic, love the pacing. I'm having terrible knee pain and am hoping that stretching my hamstrings will help.
fabulous video! I loved the slow pace. loved the focus on hamstrings with all the different poses. Love that there is a series that loops together... will have to try that and check out the restorative play list. Thank you Sarah beth
This is probably my favorite yoga video I've tried! Can't wait to try the hip flexor deep stretch.
Hi Sarah. You are the one i was searching for. I have done yoga with so many teachers. One on One,Group classes & many more but i just loved the way you do it and give enough time for deep engage and relaxinging of mucles. Thanks Please keep Posting. also something for knees
Ahhhhhh..😌☮ That felt amazing, thank you Sarah!💙
04jan2022 sunset workout done! My sincere gratitude Sarah!💝
this is a perfect routine to relieve stress in your lower back.
LOVE this series!! Thank you.
Thank you so much for thus delicious practice
My hamstrings were super tight. This stretch loosened them up. Thank you for an awesome stretch.
Thanks, this was nice! Hamstrings are a tough one for me, but your flow was great!
Soothing and very informative !!!!
10 YEARS OF UTUBE, WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT
That was wonderful!
Love love love your videos. They help so much when I actuallly stay consistent. Thank you very much. You are awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Sarah. Thank you so much for the 20 minute series. I am loving them and I am really enjoying yoga.
I am recovering from a golf injury I suffered 2 years ago. I have never been very flexible but the 2 year break from golf has made even less flexible. When I do the wide legged forward fold, I can't move my chest and heart more than a few inches further than I am sitting up. I feel a lot of tension (no pain) through my lower back and in my hamstrings. I wondered if this because of hamstrings or lower back inflexibility or both?
+Graham Arnott It could definitely be both. Tight hamstrings tend to pull the pelvis under causing more low back strain. Take a standing wide leg fold variation instead and you'll get a lot more out of it. With your feet 4-5 feet wide, and parallel or pigeon toed. Hinge from your hips into the fold. Use your hands to support you and even walk your hands forward to shift weight out of your heels and into the ball mounts of your feet to target the hamstrings (though heels will stay grounded). Basically you're just shifting gravity but making the posture much easier on your body. :)
+SarahBethYoga Thank you so much for the reply. I will carry on doing the wide legged fold to review my progress but when I follow your sessions, I will do as you suggest and do a standing wide legged fold. I know I am not get at this but I know you're right in that I will get much more benefit from it. Thank you SO much.
Found this video yesterday and enjoy it!
Thank you so much for your video's! They are healing me!
03jan2022 sunset workout done! Goddess bless you Sarah!
Thank you!
That was great, I have pulled or did something to my hamstrings yesterday. I have OA and my opposite knee has been the problem . Been doing light yoga and leg and knee strengthening. Is doing your yoga stretches 2x daily ok for my hamstrings? Again I enjoyed your yoga today.
I'll be back.
that was really great after my run in the rain this evening. Merci beaucoup SarahBeth.
Kate H Oooh! I bet it was! I have been meaning to put together a Yoga for Runners video too... I'll get on that!
SarahBethYoga Sweeet!
Kate H Yep, great after run practice.
Yes please do me and My Buddy fr.o.m. Work are about startsignalen but he has difficulties opinions on yoga and me of rundning. So yes think you! Sat nam. Namaste
Love that pose
Superb! Thanks so much, love this video!
As usual so god.
MY FAVORITE STRETCHES !!
love this
Many Thanks...
God Bless You.
This is awesome...
Please let me know how I can have the music playing on your videos if possible...
Excellent session 🙏
Thanks Sarah, I have to try this routine. I want to add yoga in to my week to supplement my weight training, but my hamstrings are my tightest part. I actually get a horrible pain in the back of my knees when stretching my hams. I really hope this will help
talosdarkpaladin that sounds awful! Use a blanket or 2 for propping your hips and even your knees for a slight bend in these postures if they're uncomfortable. You'll get through it with regular practice & stretching, keep it up!
SarahBethYoga Yeah I suspect that the pain is tight tendons in the connection between my lower hams and my knees. However the only solution I can find is more stretching haha. I'm hoping using your functional Yoga routines will gently stretch the tendons as well as the muscle :)
I'll let you know how it goes. I'll be using this one once a week and your level 1 flexibility once a week. Tomorrow is my first day - excited!
perfect practice today. my baker's cyst (which isn't a cyst not sure why they call it that) behind my knee is acting up ...this slow moving helped ...can you do a practice for knees that are sore and weak and sometimes swollen kind of thing chronic? love your work thank you
This was painful because I haven't done it in a while, but I love this video!!
Thanks for the video. I can't even sit upright with my legs extended and spread but I doubt the rest useful.
Thank you ♥️♥️♥️
Thank You SaraBeth! This is such a great home practice. You have helped me feel much better and gain more flexibility. Namaste
Thanks
Oh! Okay! I saw this! :)
I practiced yoga for about 3 years and still have very tight hamstrings. Even after years of practice every day, I cannot do "legs up the wall" without being far away from the wall on an angle. My question is this: If I start to do the hip flexor and hamstring routine, do I just keep my knees bent when I do leg stretches with a strap? Or do I keep my legs straight even though I cannot lift them very far off the floor? In the seated forward bend with legs spread and using a bolster, can I bend my knees? Or should I sit on blankets to allow my legs to straighten a little? I would like to get a little bit of stretch in my hamstrings and hip flexors so that my posture improves. After reading about tight psoas muscles, I am sure that this is what contributes to the strange posture I have. Thank you! I love the slower pace!
Perfect.
Hi Sara! I've been doing this yin style video for almost 5 months now at least every week. I also became a member since last week! However, for the forward fold with stretched legs (poses at the end) my spine hurts so bad. I am able to relieve some tension but I still can't rest my face on my bolster. Do you have any recommendations for another video that might help me relieve some tension in my back? -xx-
Try adding more props or even a chair to rest your head on so you can meet your body where it is in the pose. Once you're propped you'll find it much easier to relax over time. Ask this one in our member fb group and you'll get a lot of responses from our other members too that could be helpful 😃
What is the diff between your deep stretch yoga for hamstrings and yoga for flexibility (hamstrings and hips)? Both increase flexibility right?
Yes both increase flexibility, they're different styles of yoga though and you can use both
Okay thanks heaps !!!! :-)
Thanks i really really need tgis ny hamstrings are so tight
I know I should and accept my body and be kind but it gets pretty frustrating yknw? I have been practicing for about a year now and they are still pretty tight.
@SaraBethYoga Hi Sara.. thank you for these videos. I'm brand new to yoga and they've been great. 2 questions for ya: 1) For all these hamstring poses, am I supposed to flex both feet to activate the hamstrings? I noticed your feet are upright in a 90 degree angle, like there pressing against an imaginary wall. In my resting state, my feet protrude forward. Wouldn't flexing be considered "tension"? 2) Should I wrap my strap over the balls or middle of my feet? Thank you!
Yep! Flex your feet back in the hamstring stretches so your quads engage and in turn your hamstrings will relax and stretch deeper. If it helps you can bend your knees a little. As for your strap, try the balls of your feet, it may help you focus on flexing your feet back, otherwise whatever feels best/right for you!
SarahBethYoga thank you!
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If I do this everyday will my hamstrings ever become less tight? They are sooooo tight!
Kim Myette yes, they will slowly gain more flexibily. But it will take time
My right hamstring is much more flexible than my left, I am concerned, how do I balance this out? :/
Don't push the right and nurture the left, instead treat the right like the left only going as deep as you could on the left side. They'll balance out overtime
Alright, thank you! Your advice is always so important to me. Keep doing what you're doing cause you're awesome at it!
Is this not supposed to be a home practice? What if I don't have these props?
A modification for people who do not have props would have been good
+Kate Widdows you can use the pillows off your couch or bed 👍🏼 Without props this would be more like Yin, so you might like the Yin videos in the restorative yoga playlist better.
Does everyone have to have everything done for them? What happened to common sense? I grabbed a belt and used the throw blanket off my couch. I didn't use the other pillowy thing.
Kate Widdows 5h6h
Thank you Sarah, great video x