The Hips That Never Fully Rest

If your hips feel tight all the time — not injured, not broken, just never fully at ease — this episode might feel uncomfortably familiar.

In this session of Deep Tissue Talks, Doris Martel brings you inside a quiet, intimate treatment with an NBA player who comes in with a simple concern: “My hips are always tight.”

Not painful. Not limiting. Just always there.

Through slow, attentive manual work on the hip flexors and deep rotators, combined with breath and somatic inquiry, this episode explores what chronic hip tension can really mean — especially in bodies that never stop moving, planning, or carrying responsibility.

You’ll hear how:

• Hip tightness can show up most strongly when the body finally stops
• The psoas and deep hip muscles often hold vigilance, not weakness
• B ...