Yin Yoga is a unique style of yoga that emphasizes relaxation while also providing a beneficial stimulus to the bone and connective tissue of the body, promoting optimal functioning. The emphasis is on holding poses for long periods of time while relaxing the muscles of the body.
Jack Lalanne, who passed away at 96, worked out 2 hours per day and contributed regular exercise and nutrition to his longetivity and great health. In the early 1950’s, many people avoided exercise believing that exercise was detrimental to one’s overall well-being. Jack Lalanne, coined the term “use it or lose it”. Many people at that time avoided exercise, believing that exercise wasn’t helpful and even posed a risk to one’s longevity, diminishing the number of heartbeats. Imagine…
In a very similar way, Yin Yoga educates us about the powerful proactive steps we can take to reduce the fixation and immobilization of joints and improve the overall mobility and posture of our body. Up until recently, doctors believed that it was not wise to put pressure or to exercise the joints, believing joints would only wear out.
Yin Yoga can help to promote meditation and general relaxation, the important of which should not be underestimated. A wide range of health conditions are stress related and any practice that reduces stress will have far reaching effects on the general health of the individual. In addition when people are calmer they will be more likely to engage with their family, friends and all others that they encounter in a positive way, which then will improve the ealth of the social environment on more subtle levels.
Prolonged pressure (without force) increases synovial fluid and hyloraunic acids, keeping joints supple and pliant (opposite from atrophy, imbalance, fixation, dried out, brittle, hard, and more susceptible to injury)
☀Feeling of calm and balance
☀Regulated energy levels (chi-energy)
☀Greater strength
☀Improved health
☀Stress levels lowered
☀Greater stamina
☀Flexibility of the body’s connective tissues and joints
☀Slowed signs of aging
☀Improved meditation
☀Deeper Relaxation
☀Improved practice of yang yoga
☀Conditions you to sit longer and more comfortably
☀Also helps lengthen response time, stregnthens limbic system, hypothalamus, aid in the treatment of drug and alcohol, pain and trauma recovery, and eating disorders.
To start your onsite workplace Yin Yoga class, contact 314-630-1677. We have been teaching Yin style yoga in addition to our regular Vinyasa classes for over ten years!! Feel good. Namaste.
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The yin yoga is wonderful. I love to practice yin yoga because I get better range or motion, increased mobility, and great calm. I was pleased and surprised at the long list of other benefits of yin yoga. It’s hard for me to imagine that jumping around as fast as I can could ever be as beneficial as yin yoga. Still, we are all different and like different things. My friends say, “That’s so slow! How can you stand that?” Well, if you play basketball for a living, I guess yin yoga would be difficult to understand!