08/31/2022
Here’s a comfort stretch for walking and lying down early in pregnancy. Open the hip joints.
This stretch is called “Hands Through The Hole”:
🫶 Lay on your back. Bend both knees with your feet flat on the floor. Breathe a few times.
🫶 Lift one leg (for example, your right knee), and put that ankle above the bent knee of the other leg. Put one hand through the hole your right leg makes and grab the thigh or shin of the other leg (left). Lift the left leg to grab it.
🫶 Hold the pose for a bit, and stretch your lifted knee, in this case, the right knee, away from your head. You will feel a stretch. Don’t hurt yourself. Take a few breaths.
🫶 Put both feet down again and breathe a breath. Then do the opposite leg in the same way, opening the left knee, this time, away from your head.
Special thanks to Colette Crawford, who Gail first learned this stretch from her yoga video for women’s health.