You can choose to extend your legs out so your heels move toward the edges of your mat. Allow your weight to release into the prop and find a comfortable place to rest your arms with the chest open. Press into your feet to lift your hips, sliding the block or bolster under your hips (more specifically your sacrum). Walk your feet in with knees bent, pointing up to the sky. Lie back on your mat with a block or bolster nearby. See also Two Fit Moms: 8 Poses for Active + Passive Stress Relief Supported Bridge To come out, press into your hands and begin to stack your torso over your hips. Find a comfortable arm position and relax your neck and shoulders. See also Get Unstuck: Yin Yoga to Reverse Winter Stagnation Tadpole or Traditional Child’s Poseįrom a tabletop position, walk the knees wide, and send your hips back toward your heals. To come out of the posture, shift your hips back in space, making your way back to table. At about the halfway point, if it feels appropriate to deepen, you may lower onto your forearms.
Reach you hand to blocks to allow your hips to settle down toward the earth and your chest to extend. See also 10 Reasons to Make Time for Yin Yoga When You’re Too Busy Dragon Lunge (Right and Left)įrom a tabletop position, step your right foot forward. To come out, walk your hands in and press up to an upright seat. Breathe into the back of your body, with a special focus on the low back and legs. You may choose to bow your head forward to invite a deep stretch through the upper back, shoulders, and neck. Round your spine forward and relax your legs. Begin to walk your hands forward until you reach your first sign of tension or edge. Once you have arrived and feel centered, let’s begin.įrom a seated position, extend your legs out in front. Close your eyes and allow yourself to settle into the present moment. Start in a comfortable easy seat, inviting in several soothing breaths. In this yin yoga sequence, we honor the pause before we are called to expand once again. The long dark days of winter can lend themselves to physical stagnation, fatigue, and hibernation. On the shortest, darkest day of the year, we are urged to call on the divine light from within. The Winter Solstice marks an auspicious shift in daylight, when we begin to emerge from the darkness back into the light.
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Get cozy, dim the lights, and please let me know how you feel after the practice.Īsato ma sad gamaya Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya Mrtyor ma amrtam gamaya. When we go into a Yin posture the first line of resistance we face as our joints open or close is from our muscles. Rather than movement and striving, which are yang ways of approaching things, our yin tissues need gentleness and acceptance. Muscles respond to stress and effort, however our Yin tissues are very different.
Just as the muscles need our attention to stay healthy and resilient, so does the connective tissue In order to keep our muscles healthy we need to approach them in a dynamic way, we need to move and stretch.
The Winter Solstice marks an auspicious shift in daylight, when we begin to emerge from the darkness back into the light.
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