Yin yoga works to promote flexibility in areas that are usually seen as non-malleable, like the hips, pelvis, and lower back. When you sit up straight, you bring the pelvis into vertical alignment or with a slight forward tilt. A fundamental factor that affects the spine’s position is the tilt of the sacrum and the pelvis. In meditation, the back should be kept as straight as possible while still remaining relaxed. Yin postures are beneficial in helping facilitate more comfortable, relaxed meditation postures. Same idea.” How Yin Yoga Facilitates Healthy Posture, Flexibility, and Overall Health Once the bones are healed, the muscles are then strengthened to add support for the bone and joint. Paul Grilley explains the optimal active-passive dynamic like this: “Traction is used with bone fractures to relieve the stress on fragile bones trying to knit back together. Hip-opening postures stretch the connective tissue around the hip joints and pelvis. Supported backbends increase flexibility in the spine and stretch the front of the torso and in some poses the fronts of the thighs. Straight-legged forward folds also stretch the fascia and muscles in the back of the legs and neck/shoulder area. Yin postures, such as forward bends, stretch the ligaments along the back of the spine and help decompress the lower discs. Poses stretch the connective tissue around the joints.
Poses are held for longer periods of time–generally, two minutes per pose. Active backbends, standing poses, arm balances, and active inversions are yang because they require muscular engagement to protect the structural integrity of the body. It is good to move the body, get the blood flowing, and warm the muscles through yang yoga, then stretch the connective tissue through yin postures which are kept for longer holds. Seated meditation is a yin activity, but you can’t do it comfortably when your connective tissue is tight. Yang yoga removes energy stagnation.īut it might not be enough on its own. If you think of muscle as being like a sponge, it is easier to stretch it out when it is wet. Yang yoga is beneficial because stretching is easier with muscles that are fluid. Handstand Pose (Adho Mukha Vrksasana) and Headstand Pose (Sirsasana), which fill muscles with blood. Why Yang Yoga Helps Us Stay Suppleįrom a Taoist perspective, much of Western yoga is yang, because it focuses on movement and muscular contraction, such as in Sun Salutations (Surya Namaskar), Vinyasa flow, or even active inversions like It’s important to keep these areas of the body fluid and supple, especially as we age and are more prone to injury. Over time, and with stress, aging, and lack of stretching, connective tissue gets stiff and “shrink-wrapped,” causing tightness, reducing mobility, and potentially impairing organ function. Connective tissue is found in every bone, muscle, and organ, but it’s most concentrated in the joints. Those that focus primarily on connective tissue are yin. Of course, in all yoga postures, both muscle and connective tissue are worked to some degree, but poses or movements that focus primarily on muscle are yang. Yin tissues, like connective tissues (ligaments, tendons, and fascia) and bones are dryer, harder and stiffer. Yang tissues are more fluid-filled, soft, and elastic. When we look at yoga poses from a Taoist perspective, the most important factor is the elasticity of tissues. But the heart is yang compared to the breastbone because the heart is softer, more mobile, more elastic.” In a teacher training that I attended, Paul Grilley noted, “The heart is yin compared to the breastbone because the heart is hidden. We can’t look at the moon and say, “The moon is yin,“ but we can say, “Relative to the sun, the moon is yin.” We also have to consider the traits of the thing being compared. Yin and yang are, of course, relative terms. Yang is changing, moving, revealing aspect. Yin is the stable, unmoving, hidden, shadow aspect of things. In Taoist thought, every phenomenon in the world can be described in terms of yin and yang energy, and all are a mixture of both. Hiroshi Motoyama, believe that connective tissue is the pathway for energy flow, conducting the life force into every organ and area of the body. This energy is connected by pathways, or meridians, ( nadis in Sanskrit), which we can think of as “rivers of health.” Some researchers, including the founder of Yin yoga, Dr.
In Sanskrit, it is called prana, in Japanese ki, in Chinese qi and in Tibetan lung. Ancient yogis and Taoists believe there is energy running through the body.
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