Yin Yoga

Check Out This Simple Sequence To Relax And Unwind

Don’t Let Slowing Down Stop You

Yoga is known to be a gentle and relaxing practice, even in regards to yoga asanas that are yang.
Strength building, and flowing, yang is like a dance moving from one shape to another. This style prepares us for unique challenges on our mat and in the real world.

That doesn’t mean it’s the only style that can assist us in our daily life. The opposite of yang is yin. Meeting us exactly where we are in our busy body days. Its soft, gentle, while providing an opportunity to feel it all. Reducing stress and finding balance in our organs, tissues, and meridian lines.

Although slowing down has its challenges, it is well worth it to establish a state of relaxation in the body and mind.

Start In,

Dangling Forward Fold

Gentle stretch for the lower spine loosens the hamstrings and compresses the stomach massaging the internal organs.

How to get into the pose

  • Start in standing, feet hip-distance apart

  • Bend knees and fold forward

  • Clasp elbows with opposite hands or place hands on a block

Hold for 1-2 minutes taking breaks in squat when needed

Contraindications :

Avoid if you have high blood pressure

Avoid if you have low blood pressure come out of this slowly

Continue This Sequence By Moving Into

Squat

Opens the hips and strengthens the ankle. Helps release the lower back, offers relief for menstrual cramps.

The liver, kidneys, and urinary bladder meridian lines are stimulated in this shape.

If you feel this in the ankles you may also be stimulating the stomach, spleen, gall bladder, and urinary bladder.

How To Get Into The Pose

  • Keep feet hip-distance apart,

  • squat down, and brings your arms in front of you.

  • Hands come to prayer position as the elbows gently press against the knees or shins.

If your heels are off the floor use a folded blanket and place it under your sit bones to help the hips relax.

Hold for 3-5 minutes

 

Sphinx

Deep compression and stimulation of the sacral lumbar arch. Tones the spine, and can be therapeutic for people with bulging or herniated discs. If the neck is dropped back thyroid is stimulated.

Stimulates the kidneys, adrenal glands through compression. Urinary and kidney lines, as well as stomach and spleen meridians, are affected.

How To Get Into The Pose

  • Lie down on your belly

  • Clasp your elbows with opposite hands and move your elbows just ahead of your shoulders

  • prop yourself up

  • Notice the sensations and you can move your elbows forward or back

Hold up to five minutes or longer

 

Seal

From sphinx pose

How To Get Into The Pose

  • Straighten and lock the arms

  • The hands rotate outward a little

  • Slide your hands away to lessen the intensity

Hold for 1-2 minutes

 

Intense Shoulder Stretch

Opens the shoulders, relaxes the low back and hips

How To Get Into The Pose

  • Start on your belly

  • Bring your arm directly out to the side

  • Gently begin to roll onto your shoulder

  • Option to bed your knee and place it behind your thigh

Hold 3-5 minutes each side

 
 

Reclining Spinal Twist

Twisting at the end of practice helps to restore the nervous system and release tension in the spine.

Twisting the spine stimulates the urinary bladder lines. When the arm is over the head, several meridians are stimulated the heart, lung, small intestines and large intestines.

How To Come Into the Pose

  • Lying on your back

  • Draw both knees into your chest

  • Open your arms to the side of your body

  • Drop the knees off to one side

Hold for 3-5 minutes