Teacher Training Course on Yin Yoga
Maybe you’ve heard of Yin yoga but don’t really know what it is. Maybe you’ve tried it but lack some understanding of its origin or purpose. Or perhaps this is the first time you’re hearing of it. To find out and practice, sign up for an upcoming……..
A Five Day Camp on YIN YOGA
When: Monday 26th – Friday 30th June 2017
Time: 9:30-11am
Cost: $90/- (included a home practice guideline chart)
Address: 21 Tangmere Street, Chapel Hill, Brisbane
Target Audience: Suitable for yoga teachers and yoga practitioners at all levels of experience.
A Five Day Camp on YIN YOGA
When: Monday 26th – Friday 30th June 2017
Time: 9:30-11am
Cost: $90/- (included a home practice guideline chart)
Address: 21 Tangmere Street, Chapel Hill, Brisbane
Target Audience: Suitable for yoga teachers and yoga practitioners at all levels of experience.
The practice of yoga has always been evolving, but essentially yoga is the cultivation of attention. In yoga we concentrate on both form (our bodies & tissues), and formless-ness (our breath, energy channels, and mind states).
Modern yoga has its roots in Eastern mysticism, has been fertilized by 19th century gymnastics and wrestling, and has been shaped by Western sensibilities. Today, yoga as practiced in the West is totally unique: this yoga has never existed anywhere else before – today we practice Western Yoga for the benefits that Westerners desire.
Many forms of yoga today are dynamic, active practices designed to work only half of our body, the muscular half, the “yang” tissues. Yin Yoga allows us to work the other half, the deeper “yin” tissues of our ligaments, joints, deep fascial networks, and even our bones.
Modern yoga has its roots in Eastern mysticism, has been fertilized by 19th century gymnastics and wrestling, and has been shaped by Western sensibilities. Today, yoga as practiced in the West is totally unique: this yoga has never existed anywhere else before – today we practice Western Yoga for the benefits that Westerners desire.
Many forms of yoga today are dynamic, active practices designed to work only half of our body, the muscular half, the “yang” tissues. Yin Yoga allows us to work the other half, the deeper “yin” tissues of our ligaments, joints, deep fascial networks, and even our bones.
Yin yoga is a slow-paced style of yoga with postures (asanas) that are held for longer periods of time. Yin yoga poses apply gentle tension to the connective tissues - the tendons, fascia, and ligaments - with the aim of increasing circulation in the joints and improving flexibility. The poses are also designed to improve the flow of prana (life force) through the body’s energy channels (nadis), improving organ health, immunity, and emotional well-being.
A meditative approach to yoga, Yin Yoga aims at cultivating awareness of one's inner silence, and bringing to light a universal, interconnecting quality. Yin practice, with its ancient yogic roots, can positively affect our physical, energetic, and emotional bodies.
Benefits:
To experience the wonders of Yin, practitioners simply hold well-aligned, basic poses bringing following benefits:
A meditative approach to yoga, Yin Yoga aims at cultivating awareness of one's inner silence, and bringing to light a universal, interconnecting quality. Yin practice, with its ancient yogic roots, can positively affect our physical, energetic, and emotional bodies.
Benefits:
To experience the wonders of Yin, practitioners simply hold well-aligned, basic poses bringing following benefits:
- DOING POSES IN STILLNESS PROMOTES THE CULTIVATION OF THE INNER LIFE.
- MOVING INTO DEEPER STATES OF RELAXATION
- BUILDING PATIENCE AND RECEPTIVITY
- FEELING RELEASE AND RELIEF
Origin of Yin Yoga
Yin yoga is a slow-paced style of yoga with postures, or asanas, that are held for longer periods of time—for beginners, it may range from 45 seconds to two minutes; more advanced practitioners may stay in one asana for five minutes or more. Its teaching in the Western world, beginning in the late 1970s, was founded by martial arts expert and Taoist yoga teacher Paulie Zink.
Yin yoga is now being taught across North America and in Europe, due in large part to the teaching activities of Yin yoga teachers and developers Paul Grilley and Sarah Powers. Yin yoga as taught by Paul Grilley and Sarah Powers is not intended as a complete practice in itself, but rather as a complement to more active forms of yoga and exercise.
"Yin yoga is an art form not an exact science. The purpose of yin yoga is to take us out of the systems of social convention, indoctrination, and mechanistic ways of thinking, not to reinforce them by demanding conformity to rigid, limited paradigms. The practice of yin yoga poses does not require scientific approval or validation. Intellectualizing the practice of yin yoga serves to obstruct a deeper understanding of its essence. The real power to authorize truth is contained within each and every one of us."
Master Paulie Zink~ the founder of yin yoga.
The art of yin yoga draws upon the doctrine of the five elements of Earth, Metal, Water, Wood, and Fire, and the principle of yin and yang used in Chinese medicine and acupuncture. Yin and yang are the polarities of a whole, the complimentary opposites of dark and light, cold and hot, soft and hard, female and male that allow all things to come into being.
They are the two sides of a coin. One cannot exist without the other. Yin and yang is the vibration of the universe, the
energy that informs all life.
Yin yoga is now being taught across North America and in Europe, due in large part to the teaching activities of Yin yoga teachers and developers Paul Grilley and Sarah Powers. Yin yoga as taught by Paul Grilley and Sarah Powers is not intended as a complete practice in itself, but rather as a complement to more active forms of yoga and exercise.
"Yin yoga is an art form not an exact science. The purpose of yin yoga is to take us out of the systems of social convention, indoctrination, and mechanistic ways of thinking, not to reinforce them by demanding conformity to rigid, limited paradigms. The practice of yin yoga poses does not require scientific approval or validation. Intellectualizing the practice of yin yoga serves to obstruct a deeper understanding of its essence. The real power to authorize truth is contained within each and every one of us."
Master Paulie Zink~ the founder of yin yoga.
The art of yin yoga draws upon the doctrine of the five elements of Earth, Metal, Water, Wood, and Fire, and the principle of yin and yang used in Chinese medicine and acupuncture. Yin and yang are the polarities of a whole, the complimentary opposites of dark and light, cold and hot, soft and hard, female and male that allow all things to come into being.
They are the two sides of a coin. One cannot exist without the other. Yin and yang is the vibration of the universe, the
energy that informs all life.
Yin Yoga - Key Poses
Historically most of the yin yoga poses comes from Hatha Yoga. For that reason, in the following list, I have also added those traditional sanskrit yoga asana names:
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- Anahatasana (aka Melting Heart) - Shishankasana (hare pose)
- Ankle Stretch - Vajrasana with its variation (thunderbolt)
- Bananasana - Kadaliasana
- Butterfly - Titaliasana
- Half butterfly - Ardha titaliasana
- Camel - Ushtrasana
- Cat pulling its Tail
- Caterpillar - Pachimottanasana
- Child's Pose - Shishuhasana
- Dangling - Padahastasana
- Deer - Veerasana & its variations including spinal twists
- Dragons - Ashwa sanchalasana
- Frog - Bekhasana & its variations
- Happy Baby- Balasana & its variations
- Reclining Twists - Supta Udarkrashanasana, Shava Udarkrashanasana, Jathar parivaratanasana
- Saddle - Ardh Supta Vajrasana & its variations
- Shavasana - same in hatha yoga
- Shoelace - Gomukhasana & its variations
- Snail - Halasana (Plough)
- Sphinx and Seal - Bhujangasana & its variations
- Square - Sukhasana & its variations
- Squat- Pranamasana
- Straddle (aka Dragonfly) - Upavista konasana
- Swan & Sleeping Swan - Eka Pada Rajakapotasana sequence
- Toe Squat - Utkatasana (Chair pose) & its variations
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