The more we practise it, the more balance will come to our body and mind. The two other meridians not linked to organs are the Governor Vessel and the Conception Vessel.Īs we will explore yin yoga has a positive effect on our emotional, mental, energetic and physical well-being. These are: liver and gallbladder, heart and small intestine, spleen and stomach, lungs and large intestine, kidneys and urinary bladder, the pericardium ( the sac around the heart) and the triple heater. There are fourteen major Meridian lines, twelve of which can be positively affected by doing yin yoga. We are activating the energy flows through the body in these invisible meridian lines, the pathways/network that connects with muscles and tissues in the body. This helps to bring balance to our energy levels but also our internal organs. So again as we make shapes, we hold the pose to put positive pressure on the meridian line. We put pressure on twelve of the meridian lines in yin yoga, just as you would in acupressure and acupuncture. For further information on myofascial meridians a good starting place is: Another positive of yin yoga is we have an impact on the the meridian lines of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). This helps to elongate and expand into the myofascial layers of the body which helps improve overall health and well being. In yin yoga we have an effect on the myofascial meridians in the body because we create shapes (our yin yoga poses), passively and over longer holds.
It allows us time to reset, to bring balance to our energy levels and to be able to create/connect with the ability to pause and relax simply on our breath. Yin yoga is a practice that can help us detoxify, release stress, learn mindfulness and over the many years of teaching this style of yoga have seen it’s also a hugely anti inflammatory practice. When we approach with patience our practice keeps evolving and we continue to become more mobile, less stressed and relaxed. Yin yoga helps improve our flexibility and creates more range of movement within the joints in our body. Physically in a yin yoga practice we are not working our muscles to hold a pose but creating a shape to then allow the deep layers of the body to expand and lengthen. Then when we start each pose in this way it encourages the body to move deeper into relaxing and letting go. I often explain to students we want to be at an edge in the pose but have room to explore, we don’t want to be holding with stress and tension in the body.
To begin with, each time we come to a pose in our practice we want to start quite far back, a relaxed starting position and then from there we can begin to unravel and release. Therefore, it helps to know how we can encourage the body to relax and let go, especially in the early days of coming to this practice. However, when we understand more about the practice and adapt to this energetic shift it becomes a deeply relaxing form of yoga. If you are new to a yin yoga practice it can be challenging, the lack of movement and the stillness.
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