YIN | RESTORATIVE
We have combined both a “Restorative” and “Yin” practise to slow down and nourish the entire Mind, Body and Soul.
Yin is perfect for those who have developed strong but overly tight muscles – to improve their flexibility and achieve greater agility, power and endurance.
The Benefits of Yin Yoga
This style of yoga is ideal for complete beginners and requires no previous experience. The other primary benefits are:
- Increasing flexibility
- Loosening up tight joints
- Improving range of motion
- Easing aches and pains
- Improving posture
- Speeding up athletic recovery
- Building discipline
- Improving breath efficiency
- Relaxing the body
- Calming the mind
Restorative Yoga uses props to support the body in positions of ease and comfort to facilitate relaxation and health. It is a practice of deliberate stillness and requires no muscular effort. In this class, you have are given options to take either a Restorative (restful or nurturing approach) or Yin, which is dependant on how you feel on any given day.
We will settle into some supported floor poses (gentle twists, supported forward folds and back bends, slight/supported inversions, and different versions of Savasana).
Yin Yoga is a slow-paced approach practice where poses are held for a longer period of time in a relaxed manner, up to 5 minutes or more. Yin in particular is a safe practise in order to increase flexibility and stretch and lengthen muscles.
On the physical level Yin Yoga targets bones, joints and connective tissues. On the energetic level the practice reconnects with its roots of Taoist yoga, and uses the ancient map and modern theory of the meridians, the long holds in Yin restore harmony in the subtle body by targeting the channels that run through the connective tissues.
Yin Yoga is a Quiet Practice.
All levels welcome!