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Yin Yoga for Beginners

Beginner I
(22 Reviews)
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If you are new to the practice of yin yoga, here are some practice guidelines and poses to help you get started.

Equipment

  • Block
  • Blankets

Focus

  • Hips
  • Spine
  • Lower Back

Style

  • Yin and Yin/Yang Yoga
lisilou
July 20, 2023
Comment:

would have been a great practice if the instructor didn't talk so much ... shame

Teo5678
February 14, 2021
Comment:

Love this practice! Thank you! Please can you explain to me why there are no alignment cueues? For example, in Sphinx pose should I keep ears away from shoulders or sinking in doesn’t matter? Shoelace pose, vertical thigh or thigh falling and relaxing? Should we exert any muscular tension to hold the polls are completely relax? Thank you

Comment Replies

Nyk Danu
March 2, 2021
Comment:

Great questions!
Yin Yoga is a functional form or Yoga not an aesthetic form of yoga so alignment cues aren’t needed because we aren’t trying to make the pose look a certain way.
In a Yin practice we also acknowledge that everyone is unique and has a unique bone structure so there are no one size fits all alignment cues.

In Yin our intention in Sphinx is gentle compression of the lower back that’s the function of the pose, so what’s happening at the shoulders isn’t relevant unless it is helpful the main intention of the pose ( lower back).

In shoelace for some people the knee will rest down and for some it will stay up.
This again is because we each have different bones. If your knee naturally and comfortably rests down then do that. If it doesn’t it doesn’t matter, the point of shoelace is to feel stretch in the hip, butt, IT band area. So as long as you
are feeling that then what the pose looks like doesn’t matter.

In a Yin practice we want to be as relaxed as we can be while still maintaining the shape, so as little muscular effort as possible.
It’s the relaxed, stillness and time of the poses that are the magic of yin yoga and how it affects our deep fascia.

I hope that helps

daisey122
February 6, 2021
Comment:

Thank you it’s a great practice. I have problems coming into butterfly pose as my hips are very tight and I have sciatica, this helped me ease into some poses and find some relief.

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Cornelia
April 6, 2020
Comment:

Great practice, so much happening, and now feeling light, quiet, relaxed and focused. Interesting info, you tell, like that what is happening in between the poses, that that is important too. It's true! I'll be back. Thank you very much!

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