Favorite Hip flexor stretch?

[tulip]

This one works for me. Hopefully Knotted will chime in and tell us if we're doing something stupid (or smart).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv1471TaM3A

[Zen]

Tulip, I used to do that one in PT. It is a good one but you need to be on a table.
Something that I've found to have a similar effect is to lay supine and do a hamstring stretch with yoga strap on one leg and have the opposite leg straight out.

[OakLeaf]

you need to be on a table.

You can do it on a picnic table at the park if you don't mind the way people look at you.

A gentle one I like is to do essentially a side-lying quadriceps stretch, but hook a stretchy band around the top of the foot of the leg you're stretching. Holding the band in your top hand, bring it overhead (French press position), keep your top femur parallel to the floor, and let the band bring the knee of that leg behind the hip.

Full (prone) bow pose is more of a backbend, but it gets into the hip flexors too, and standing bow pose really gets them, for me.

Careful of your knees when you do pigeon pose, and make sure your hips are level.

[tulip]

My kitchen island works for that stretch. I could also do it on my front porch if I wanted to be public about it.

[Zen]

just be sure to wear undies