Thank you, I used to be so flexible but thrown my disk few years ago and after that I’m struggling so bad with hamstring stretches

The way my jaw DROPPED. just an hour ago I wanted to be able to stretch like that and now im finding this video

Omg, I always wondered why I can't do this when I can standing. No one ever told me to rock forward onto my sit bones. Thanks!!!

For the first time in my life I feel seen with my struggles in forward folding! I have always had very tight hamstrings despite working out my core a lot- especially how I trained a lot several years ago. Recently I have been strength training more powerfully again and naturally started tilting my pelvis forward and experienced this shift on my own- but hearing it and seeing it demonstrated like this felt so good to know I was heading in the right direction without creating an injury or something. Thank you so much for this!

I was never told about this pelvic rock to assist in this stretch. It absolutely helps! Huge difference, thank you!

They need a folder blanket under the sit bones help as well. That lift makes a big difference

OMG after 29 years of not knowing today I could! Thanks you so much!!

I watched a video, not yours, that was critiquing exercises and some of them looked like ones that I were doing. He said they were ineffective and didn't work anything. I got really sad and felt like I did and tried for nothing and that I failed. I'm very glad to have found your video. It really brightened my day. I'm not really flexible and am working on that so this gives me some hope that I'll make it to my final fitness goal. Thanks so much!

More like this please! As a not flexible person is so difficult to know how to do yoga without forcing the body in the wrong direction

Thank you, I only follow yoga videos that have alternative poses for people with less mobility, and you got yourself a subscriber with this short.

I wasn’t able to touch my toes for decades and after daily yoga for 6 months I’m folding like a PBJ sandwich 😅

I love a good forward fold 😊 When I started yoga, I couldn't even touch my feet, but now, after months and months of practice I can rest my whole chest on my thighs. It's crazy to me that my body can actually do this. I was almost 40 when I started, I never thought my flexibily could improve as much as it has. Of course I'm still struggling with a lot of poses (chauranga is my nemesis, my elbows just won't bent the right way), but the fact that I'm seeing improvements makes me proud of myself, for getting on my mat each day and not giving up. If you're like me, in your late 30s and you think of starting yoga, just do it, I promise it would do you good. Just start slow, 15 min a day. We can all find 15 min in our day and once you create the habit, it's in your routine and you can't stop :)

Finally I found a tutorial. My dance teachers never explained me how I should do this exercise and I always used to end up doing it wrong all along.

OMG!! Now I get it, you are the first person ever to be able to help me in this!! -_-

Thank you! I have not seen an explanation this thorough before- can’t wait to try it out during my next stretch session!

as a yoga student, i like how she really nicely explained the process of the forward fold on the floor or as we call it paschimotanasana, the true forward fold position is when we sit down with straight legs with a straight back and then you raise your arms and then bend so that your abdomen touches the thighs then you touch your chest then the noses on your knees, to get this position we recommend rock back and forth from the fold while on the ground, Hope it helps!😊

Omg, that helped tremendously. Thank you so much 🙏.

I can do this pose properly ( like touching the chest to knees).... This is one of the easiest yoga poses.

Putting your arms up also helps, then fold. It helps with the "up and over" instead of just over.😊

I saw a similar video about a month ago and it seriously makes such a huge difference! I’m getting so much deeper in my forward folds than I ever have, the difference was instantaneous 🙌

Thank you! When I do not do yoga for a while this is EXACTLY what happens and I never really knew why. This makes sense!

doing a cat cow motion with ur hips in the forward fold can help stretch both the inside of ur thighs and calves as well as the back of ur thighs and ur glutes. its such an underrated stretch because most people dont know how to utilize it

Thank you so much. This change helped a lot

I was actually able to do it without any difficulty. Amazing tips ❤

I was in bed when i watched this. Jumped off, grabbed my yoga mat and tried this....huge difference 👍TFS. I also did other stretches while i was there.

really makes a huge difference for me. thank you!

Oh wow!! I'll have to try this. I did dance for four years, and not once did my dance teacher clarify how to do it properly. Thank you!! It will be much easier to do that scretch now ^-^

I used to do your challenges!!! Glad I found your shorts ❤

Yupp that’s exactly how I look lol. I’ll be trying this tomorrow morning ❤

I've been doing it wrong my whole life!! Gym teachers even damaged my hamstrings, slamming me downward. So I just thought I couldn't do it. I'm definitely going to start doing this more! It has really helped!! Thank you!! (Addressing the Gym teachers: it was the early 90s, no one cared about stuff like that and i was a young child so no i didnt sue. Please don't tell me to. Those gym teachers are deceased, deserve to rest in peace and i dont hold their mistakes against them. Niether should you. Thanks! )

Oh my this is a revelation to me, thank you so much for this!!

It DOES! THANK YOU

Where has this been my whole life!?!?!? 🤯🥹✨🫶🏽

Super helpful!! thanks a bunch. I always got problems with seated folding forward and standing forward fold. Maybe am a bit competitive or embarrassed during yoga sessions when majority of students can do it

THIS HELPED SO MUCH

Omg help me more ! I need way more help then this short alone! Please make a full corrective posture practice video

😮 this is my silent wish granted. Thank you. Show me more

Great explanation and illustration! Also, you can stretch hamstrings at barre or flat on back doing leglifts.

Describes me exactly. Thank you for the tip

Thanks! This is very helpful!💜😊

Thank you Bub ❤

Oh wow I didn't even think about it like that!!! Rotate/rock pelvisssss

Omg this is so HELPFUL! TY

This is exactly what I needed! Thank you! 😊

Thank you so much and upload videos more for beginners and to overcome the challenge to do the pose.

Ohhh 😮 good to know because that’s definitely me

Great advice, thank you so much!❤

Thank you for solving this problem. That’s the problem I always have and you solved it.❤

Omg this is amazing! Thank you!!!

This is really great. Ive been having this exact problem and now have 0 questions how to fix it. Very informative. Thank you

Shout out to the algorithm for answering this question i asked IN MY MIND earlier today 😅

This is soooo helpful. Thanks!

I couldn’t touch my toes forEVER. I tried and every time it would hurt so much. I started stretching every morning and I can touch them now! One of those simple pleasures. Along with touching my toes I have great leg and hip mobility so I can sit and get in weird child like positions that I use for my stimulation. Super super awesome.

Thank you so much for explaining this and giving an example of what to do to correct it. I thought I was the only one who couldn’t do this.

Thank you for helping us not so flexible people! 😅

This is the first time in my life I've ever been able to do this, thank you so much ♡

Yesss!!! This is soo meeee!! Thank youu

I’m new to any sort of exercise and I’m so intimidated by yoga but I want to try it so much. Thank you for this. It helps more than you know.

I remember as a kid trying to touch my toes, people said it didn't count if you bent your knees, and no matter how often I stretched, I never could reach further. My family doctor even yelled at me over it saying I'd have back problems if I didn't fix this. Fast forward a decade and a half when I started working out and lifting, and wow it's way easier to progress to touching your toes if you stretch with your knees bent, however bent they need to be at the time. As long as you feel the stretch, it's enough.

I love your little scootch at the end 😅❤

thank you so much. I struggle with that pose all time . Now its much more easier ❤

Thank you for talking about bending the knees! I remember when my friend told me it was better to have 'soft and spongey' knees when doing stretches then having them locked with a stiff straight leg

Great explanation - thanks!

It DOES help, thank you!

Well, I'm going to have to subscribe, excellent advice thank you

yes, all three for me

Thank you so much. I Always wondered why this happened.

That looks good. I'll try it asap.

After a few months of starting gymnastics late, I can do that with my elbows on the floor

Thank you for this!!!!!!!!!!!!

Perfect explanation wth wrong n right. Subscribed. Thanks

You have a beautiful smile ☺️

Thank you!!!! ❤❤❤❤

Omg! I fell in love

That was very helpful thank you

THANK YOU!!!!! I was literally just doing that stretch and couldn’t!

I think you’re wonderful 🙏🏻☺️

Also if your sciatic nerve isn't gliding through its tract well that can limit your forward fold in much the same way. You can test this by trying both with your toes pointed down or up. If you have more range of motion with your toes pointed down do some nerve glides and try again. This is how I get several inches more mobility when I do pikes.

Thank you!!

Lol I have the rolled pelvis and it’s so annoying. I could never figure out why I felt so inflexible for ages, especially as an athlete who stretched all the time. One of the girls from our older teams pointed it out and it helped so much cause I figured out how to stretch my tight as hell hamstrings 😂

This is me. I cannot do forward fold. Years back my yoga instructor asked me to do the yogasan and I simply laughed that I am made of rock. Thank you This seems helpful.will try

Thank you omg!!

Super helpful. I have tight tight hamstrings so I think that might be part of it but the pelvis advice helps. Thank you!

Omg... I just did my first forward fold ever 🤣🤣🥹🤞

THANK YOU OMG EVERY TIME I DO THIS WHILE LOOKING IN THE MIRROR IM LIKE WHAT AM I DOING WRONG

Great cues!

Thank you.

Thank you 🙏🏿

Nicely explained. Thanks!

what happens when someone asks you to jump the grand canyon on a motorcycle? here’s what you’re doing-you keep falling and dying. what you need to do is this-just ride the motorcycle to the ramp, soar through the sky, and land safely on the other side! hope this helps!

Thankyou so much

Love it!

For me, that's an easy stretch. When I was in high school, we had to participate in the "Presidential Fitness" tests. So we had to sit on the floor with our feet touching the side of a wooden box with a ruler attached to it. We were to sit with our feet touching the box. The end of the ruler was touching the wall on the opposite side of the box. I had to repeat the test twice after the first try. Why? They had to move the box back from the wall twice before my fingertips didn't touch the wall. 😂

You are so unbelievably beautiful

I think my belly is part of the reason I can't do this very well. I've been chubby most my life and have had two kids. Now I'm 38 and trying to be healthier but I'm in so much darn pain in my back and my muffin top is in the way. it makes everything just that much harder.

very helpful, thanks

Thank you

Any tips on keeping hamstrings and groin stretchy? I do my stretches and exercises every day but as soon as I've slept everything is stiff as f again. Feels like I'm always fighting those 2 things 😬

I just had this problem today! I was trying so hard lol!

Oh thanks for that , gonna try that next time I do yoga 😊