12/25/2023 0 Comments Yin yoga sequence for beginners![]() ![]() The sympathetic system is your fight-flight response, funneling energy to the most vital processes at that time. There are the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems within the autonomic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system is part of the peripheral nervous system and regulates involuntary heart rate, respiration, digestion, etc. Maintaining your connection to your breath during yin yoga helps bring some calming to the nervous system and tap into the relaxation benefits of the practice. It can be frustrating to maintain a pose for this long, absorb new sensations, and quiet the mind. You might be wondering what you’re supposed to do during those 2-5 minutes for every yin pose. When you release a pose, you’ll likely feel a flood of sensation to the area. Whereas during yin, we want to feel the sensation. With restorative, the goal is to decrease sensation. You can read about the differences in this article. ![]() In reality, they are two very different practices. Yin is sometimes confused with restorative yoga because of its slow pace. ![]() Holding poses for 2-5 minutes stresses these deeper plastic tissues. Tissues of the body need appropriate stress forces to remain strong and heal from injury. Yin yoga poses are typically held for 2-5 min with some gentle movement transitions in between. While this is a clever rhyming marketing technique, it goes against the traditional theory of practicing cold and doesn’t carry all of the benefits of yin yoga. Something worth noting, it’s popular to see “vin to yin” yoga classes. The theory is that if you’re warm, more of the motion will pass through the (yang tissues) muscles, and you won’t access the deeper plastic tissues. Yin yoga is performed “cold,” meaning without activity beforehand like Vinyasa yoga, Ashtanga yoga, Hatha yoga, power yoga, or other exercises. Since fascial tissue is intertwined throughout the body, it’s obviously not so black and white (for example, only moving the fascia and not the muscles) but when heat gets involved, it does change the elasticity and flow of certain tissues and fluids. In theory, yin yoga targets the plastic tissues. Yin poses are also connected to energy meridians and the chakras. (More on this in a bit and how it relates to the practice of Yin yoga.) Yin is connected to cold and yang to hot. Yin tissues of the body are plastic (e.g., deep fascia, ligaments, joints), and yang tissues are elastic (e.g., muscles and tendons). The name, yin, comes from the Chinese philosophy of yin and yang. Let’s first discuss what yin yoga is and how it differs from other styles of yoga. ![]()
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