Yin Yoga is a slow-paced style of yoga with postures (asanas), that are held for longer periods of time. For beginners, it may range from 45 seconds to two minutes. More advanced practitioners might stay in the same asana for five minutes or more.
Yin is our SUPER SLOW Power class. It’s about discovering your Inner Power.
We currently offer Yin Yoga (and meditation) once a week via our Mandala On Demand schedule.
Yin yoga poses apply moderate stress to the connective tissues of the body—the tendons, fascia, and ligaments. The aim is to increase circulation into the joints and improve flexibility. A more meditative approach to yoga, yin aims at cultivating awareness of inner silence.
Yin yoga’s teaching in the Western world, beginning in the late 1970s, was founded by martial arts expert and Taoist yoga teacher Paulie Zink. It is now being taught worldwide, due in large part to the teaching activities of Yin yoga teachers and developers Paul Grilley and Sarah Powers.
Introduced to the modern yoga world largely through Paul Grilley and Sarah Powers, yin yoga is not intended as a complete practice in itself, but rather as a complement to more active Yang forms of yoga and exercise .