Ahhhhh my blessed hips are why I practice yoga! It's where I tend to store my physical and emotional tension.
I used to have such chronic hip pain that I never thought I could exist for a moment without it.
Within a month of starting a basic yoga practice, it disappeared completely. It was a miracle!
Now when things get tight and painful, I know it's time to do more yoga :)
So interesting to compare how men and women carry energy in the body!
But one month is really fast, how long did it take for you to get that firelog pose? And did you truly had an emotional release and all of a sudden the hips opened significantly?
No, over that first month I did not have one singular big emotional release - it was more a small series of things falling away bit by bit. And every day I felt better and better, and about a month after starting a practice I realized that I had been many days without hip pain and had sort of forgotten about it all together! I was building a new habit of feeling good rather than tuning into pain all the time.
I did not measure exactly when I could do agnisthambasana, but I did open up a significantly new range of motion in my hips alone over that first month.
However, potentially even more profound (as far as my hips are concerned :) ) was the 10 day silent meditation I took after a few years of doing yoga. I practiced no asanas at all, only meditated for 16+ hours a day, and sitting for all that time was one of the most physically painful things I've ever done. I released so much energetic shit in many layers during that meditation that at the end of it I could do hanumanasana, which I had never been able to do my whole life!
The body/mind/spirit connection is remarkable.
Wow that sound exactly like something I need, it was a vipassana retreat, right? Someday, I was already reaching out a while ago but they are usually fully booked out.
Probably because I really struggle to let go, my hips just won't open. Last year I tried to brutforce it, not a good idea, thankfully yoga humbles you and shows you where your place is at the moment :)