Yin Yoga

Quiet, long-held floor poses promoting a deeply releasing and soothing experience

In Yin we slow down, take poses on the floor, and stay in each shape for three to six minutes. By exploring the poses for a longer period of time, it gives an opportunity to attend deeply to the experience of being in our body. While gently tugging (stretching) on the soft tissues – fascia, connective tissue, muscle, ligaments, tendons and the tissue surrounding the bones -- we learn how to intelligently play our edge, as we listen to whatever sensations are coming up. 

Yin Yoga is complementary to:

• active styles of yoga such as Power, Vinyasa, and Iyengar, and others
• strength training
• running, biking, swimming, hiking, and so forth
• a stressful, busy life

Through Yin you access the tight, stiff, harder-to-get-to areas of the body in a way that is simply not possible in faster, hotter, stronger styles of yoga and other strengthening and cardio activities. 

The deep release that Yin yoga provides:

• hydrates tissues
• maintains healthy joint mobility
• removes toxins from tissues
• increases flexibility 
• slows the degenerative processes in the aging body (aging body anyone?)
• mental clarity, balance and relaxation

From the outside Yin doesn’t look like much is going on, but the inner experience is very rich. In addition to physical benefits, Yin Yoga provides space for balancing emotions and moving stuck energy. Inner qualities of courage, calmness, and contentment are naturally nourished in Yin practice.

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