Yin Poses | Ekhart Yoga
Read our step-by-step guides to the main Yin Yoga poses you’ll practice in a Yin style class. Get to know their physical and energetic benefits, try out different variations and learn which counterposes to sequence with them.
Yin Yoga - Ekhart Yoga
Yin yoga pose gallery – step by step instructions for Yin yoga poses, plus variations, beginners’ tips and suggested classes. Benefits of Yin yoga – learn why this style of yoga has such a positive impact on your mental, physical and emotional health.
Yin yoga sequence for the chakras
This Yin yoga sequence for the chakras will help to gently stimulate and balance these centres so the energy starts to flow. Stay in each pose for about 3 minutes and observe the breathing pattern suggested for half of the time you’re in the pose.
The Five Elements in TCM and Yin Yoga: Metal
We may notice the urge to add warmth to our Yin yoga practice, turning up the thermostat or adding layers of clothes. We may even add a dynamic joint warm-up before nestling into our more static, held yin yoga postures.
Yin Yang Yoga
Yin Yang Yoga blends two styles of yoga into one practice – bringing together the benefits of passively holding yoga poses with more dynamic sequences and standing postures. Yin and Yang are the Taoist concepts which describe the two relative qualities present in everything.
Introduction to Meridian Theory and Yin Yoga
Using the Five Elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Meridian Theory as a foundation, you’ll learn how Yin Yoga poses can stimulate meridians and balance Chi flow, and in doing so, initiate profound energetic, physical, emotional and mental shifts.
The Five Elements in TCM and Yin Yoga: Water
In Yin Yoga we can tune into the support of our back body Urinary Bladder line with postures such as Saddle Pose and Melting Heart Pose. For the Kidney Meridian we can tune into the 27 kidney points from the sole of the foot, up the inner leg line to belly, ending just under the collarbones with Deer Pose (image right) and Half Frog Pose.
The Five Elements in TCM and Yin Yoga: Earth
Standing postures such as Warrior One and Warrior Two helps us ground into the earth and feel her stability. Balancing postures such as Tree help us grow our roots deep into the earth in order to find calmness and grace in the winds of change.
Swan pose - Ekhart Yoga
Learn about Yin pose, Swan, and its benefits and variations. ... Relaxing Anxiety Mental health Stress relief Backbends Lower back Spine Upper back Back health Grounding Yin Yoga All levels Twists Detox. Benefits . Increases toe mobility and strengthens the ankles. ... Alternative poses . Eye of the Needle ; Counter pose . Downward Facing Dog ...
The benefits of Yin Yoga
Different Yin yoga poses stimulate and remove blockages in the myofascial meridians in the body, which in turn balances the body’s internal organs and systems. Yin yoga requires the muscles to relax around the connective tissue in order to get a stretch, so not every yoga pose can be done safely or effectively when practising Yin style yoga.