Be Healthy With Yin Yoga

Only go so far into a position that you feel a pleasant (!) stretch. Remain completely passive, keep your muscles relaxed, and patiently leave any other effort to gravity for the next few minutes.

Yoga practice should always be adapted to personal requirements, free from any performance goals.

It is only when the Yin base is powerful enough and the Yang nourishes that the strength of Yang can have any effect.
Nowadays we live in an age that emphasizes Yang. Children have to get up early, hurry off to school, follow lessons with full concentration, and then still do their homework conscientiously. It continues with training at the sports club and/or music lessons, etc. Then there might be some time left over to play. And many adults continue this rhythm.

It directs us to look inwards, calms the vegetative nervous system, and relaxes and strengthens the entire body.

Yin Yoga has much more to do with activating energetic flow in the meridians—the energy pathways—and bringing them into harmony through individual exercises.

I believe there is great healing potential within this as only we ourselves sense what is best for us.

It is said that when the mind is not being listened to, the body sounds the alarm through illness, thereby making the person slow down.

When I practice Yin Yoga, I become myself completely and experience a deep feeling of peace within myself. In Yin Yoga I am fully myself and do not have to please anyone else—either proverbially or in reality.

Each day, each yogini can test to see if Yin Yoga makes her calmer, more content, and more healthy.

Yin Yoga stresses the fascial meridians with long, gentle poses and then gives us time to relax and feel the rebound of Chi after each pose. Little by little, the energetic connections become perceptible, and little by little we become aware of the connections between our thoughts, our emotions, and our Chi