Yin Yoga
Yin Yoga
Yin yoga is a perfect complement to the dynamic and muscular (yang) styles of yoga that emphasize inner heat and the lengthening and contracting of our muscles. Yin yoga typically targets the connective tissues of the hips, pelvis, and lower spine. Yin yoga is a slower and meditative practice in which poses are held for a long period of time (usually three to five minutes or more) to target connective tissues (such as ligaments) rather than focusing on muscles. This practice will help you slow down, create more space in your body, and most of all, tap into your essence.
Why would you need to practice Yin Yoga?
Enhances energy flow and removes blockages
Yin yoga improves energy flow and strengthens the flow of chi in the organs. Certain postures stimulate energy along the 12 main energy meridians in the human body (according to traditional Chinese medicine). Just as we have a physical scar that needs to be broken through, we also have an emotional scar that we can work on through the meridians. For example, if you are experiencing excessive anger and frustration, working on the liver meridian through a specific Yin yoga pose, acupuncture or acupressure can bring balance and help release those stagnant emotions that no longer serve you.
Improved flexibility and range of motion
Yin yoga works on the yin tissues – also known as the connective tissues. Connective tissue responds best to slow, steady loading, which is why we hold poses longer. If you gently stretch the connective tissue by holding the pose for a long time like this, the body will respond by making it a little longer and stronger - which is exactly what you want.
Emotional cleansing
Staying still in a pose for a while helps the body relax and create more space. Holding this space allows emotions to rise and stir. It could be anxiety, happiness, sadness, boredom...any emotion or feeling you suppress with all the busyness in your life. Yin yoga gives you the time and space to allow the emotions, thoughts and feelings you've been keeping in the shadows to come to the surface.
What are the benefits?
- Learn how to relax
- Relieve stress
- Restores energy levels
- Improves flexibility
- Increases blood circulation
- Reduces emotional tension
Meet your instructor Vesela
Vesela is a certified yoga instructor, with more than 8 years of experience, over 1000 hours of training and participation in the preparation of yoga teacher trainings. In addition, Vesela has a bachelor’s degree in kinesitherapy and has completed numerous courses in massage and manual therapy.
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Reviews
For Vesi 🙂 With two arms, two legs and all the muscles and joints, I recommend these two hands to Vesi! How we met? I literally couldn't walk and I was desperately looking for the right person and I found him! We started massages, individual gymnastics, yoga, and with persistence, the results were not long in coming ... for which I am very proud, but with persistence and the right advisor next to you, miracles happen! And her practices, which are as energizing as they are relieving... you leave recharged, awake, the blood in your body wakes up...so try it and see if it's yours, it's worth at least a try! Still, it all depends on ourselves and our choices, so feel good in your body and skin us!
I’m so grateful for having found Vesela. I was a complete beginner to yoga and naturally apprehensive about starting. Vesela is all I could ask for and more in a yoga instructor - knowledgable, calm, patient, energetic and empowering. Her knowledge of human anatomy and physiology is truly impressive - she’s deeply interested in the human body and how it works. In her work she focuses on both the outer body and the inner, mental and spiritual states; the way they come together harmoniously. Vesela works according to your specific needs and how your body feels on a given day: whether you need targeted pain or tension relief; more/less movement; more/less stretching, or whether you’d like to focus more on the mind and breathing. She works WITH you and encourages you to be aware of your body’s needs. I always leave our yoga sessions feeling better because of her warm and uplifting energy.
I met Vesela a year ago and since then I have not only more and better energy in my life, but also another friend. Everything she does is clean, bright, beautiful and...breathable. I have been practicing yoga for a long time, but for the first time someone paid such serious attention to every link of my body and what was happening to it. I specifically visited a yoga practice for the first time at Vesi's and during this year I must have missed a total of 5 times - incredible relaxation for the body and mind; great feeling to think 100% for yourself and feel that you are doing something for your soul.The massages are also totally different, as Vesi is not only a seasoned massage therapist, but a medically and anatomically perfectly prepared specialist. I recommend that you try everything she does and find what works best for you. Thank you dear Vessie!
Frequently asked questions
Yin yoga is more than a suitable practice for all of us. Because of the modern and fast-paced lifestyles we lead (represented in Yang), we all need to slow down, quiet and relax (Yin) to find that much-desired balance. In Chinese philosophy, Yin-Yang is the concept of eternal unity.
Yin yoga and restorative yoga are often thought of as similar practices, but there are many differences between the two. here are some examples- Yin yoga poses are held for about 3-5 minutes while in restorative yoga poses are held for 5 to 10 minutes. Restorative yoga uses many more props than Yin yoga, which can include belts, blankets, blocks, sandbags, and especially bolsters.
In Yin Yoga there is active stretching, but in Restorative Yoga the goal is to be 100% supported and passive, with no active stretching.
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