ekhart yoga

hello everyone, jennilee here with a littleanatomical insight into your hip socket. the name for your hip socket is the acetabulum. i love saying it - acetabulum. and this is the socket in here of the ilium. this is the iliac, the ischium, the pubis.

ekhart yoga, this whole pelvic region.. often many books will call this the ilium. so the acetabulum is the socket of that..... your hip socket. and the head of the femur plugs into it. now there's articular cartilage on the topof the head of the femur inside the acetabulum.

and it's all sealed here with a gasket called your labrum (acetabular labrum). what we're seeing in yoga is that there is a lot of 'wear or tear' inside the hip socket when we're doing weight bearing/load bearing poses. so it's nice to make sure you're actually doing all your 'closed hip poses', sequenced together. and then you can choose to go into your 'open hip poses' sequenced together. to really take care of what's going on in here. we don't want to be grinding the top of the acetabulum - here on top of the femur bone. in balancing poses such as ardha chandrasana to parivrtta trikonasana and also warrior i to warrior ii.

we really want to make sure we are not grinding inside this hip socket. keep the space in here, keep the lubrication of the synovial fluid in there. and really take care of the gasket, your labrum..... no tears! thank you so much for joining me in this anatomical insight into your hip socket.