Yin yoga is one of the most stress-relieving forms of yoga. It is low impact and doesn’t require previous yoga experience.
For Yin yoga all you need is a comfortable place to rest so you could do it on the floor, just on your carpet. If you have got a hard floor I recommend getting out your yoga mat and maybe also a blanket to lay down.
Yin yoga involves holding shapes for longer periods of time. So they’re shapes that are generally supported so they are laying down or sitting down. There’s a few that we do standing but not very many.
Holding the shapes there’s a little bit of discomfort. But, we don’t want to be overwhelmed with being uncomfortable because then we’re exciting the nervous system as opposed to calming it – which is what we’re trying to do, at the same time as relaxing our connective tissue.
Everybody is different and everybody feels the shapes differently so you might find one shapes is really tight for your body and you really struggle to get into it. That’s ok, you just modify it to work for you. Do as much or as little as you need. It’s really about getting into our bodies and noticing how we feel, so instead of getting caught up with our thoughts and our inner dialogue, the poses in yin help check in on how the body is responding and working with it in that way rather than getting caught up with what’s going on in your mind.
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