Restorative yoga promotes mental and physical ... Related: 15 Yoga Poses for Beginners (With Pictures to Guide You) The resting pigeon pose (Salamba Kapotasana), explained here, improves hip ...
Stretching should be restorative, not painful, so if pigeon pose is feeling a little torturous, here are some other hip-openers to try instead. Unpopular opinion: I don’t like pigeon pose.