Yin Yoga is designed to help you maintain joint and connective tissue health at any time of life.
Yin Yoga is a yielding, allowing and nourishing practice, with poses held for several minutes and according to the ability of the individual.
As well as the physical benefits, yoga is also about the cultivation of attention. We focus on form (our bodies) and formlessness (our breath, flow of energy and state of mind). Paying attention to changes in the breath, noticing the ebb and flow of sensations in the physical body, recognising the spaciousness of mind, as well as the thoughts moving through it.
I have travelled a 30 year path working and playing with various yoga forms, including Iyengar, Ashtanga, Vinyasa Flow and Scaravelli yoga. I trained to teach yoga with the Classical Yoga School (CYS) in Scotland in 2009-10. My own explorations in yoga since then have focused predominantly on the quieter, Yin style. This ‘yoking’ or union of body, heart and mind provides benefits beyond simply being more flexible or stronger. For me, the practice of Yin Yoga helps to re-establish our natural wholeness – the balanced integrity of our true nature.