The Yin Yoga
Yesterday, my yoga class was conducted another Yogi and she ais practicing the Yin yoga. She explained that the nimala yoga Is a yang yoga which build strength in our muscles where as the Yin yoga is the practice of relaxin our muscles into a form. The purpose is to have a totally relaxed body before easing into a form.
This understanding draw parallel to the Chinese martial art which have the hard and soft type. The hard form have hard punches and firm stand while the soft type like Tai Chi is the soft type. The body must be as soft as the water but still keeping a strong internal chi.
The Yin yoga draw the strength from the relax muscles which settles the body into a form. It has the leverage to stretch the muscles and the spine.. It is a force on force and both force finally form a relaxed form with the muscles pulling each other.
The practice yesterday was on the rotation of the spine. A six point rotation . The left and right stretching , the up and down and the twisting of the left and the right side of the spine.
It was a totally different way and it was so slow and relax and we came to understand that we have to alternate this hard and soft form to realize the full potential of yoga.
Namaste
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