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Yin yoga: be part of the yin crowd | Life and style | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/05/yin-yoga-c...
Yin yoga is practised sitting or lying on the oor. There are no planks,
no warriors, no core work. No dynamic sun salutations. No standing
poses. The pace is slow, so you need to wear comfortable, warm
clothes and maybe keep your socks on. The classes should be suitable
for beginners and more experienced practitioners alike.
You can expect forward bends with legs together or apart, lunges and
gentle backbends poses that are commonly practised in dynamic
yoga classes. But heres the key dierence: in yin yoga, they are held
for a longer period of time to increase exibility in that part of the
body. Instead of holding for ve breaths, as in an ashtanga vinyasa
class, in a yin class they could be held for between two and 20
minutes, although ve is more usual.
Yin yoga also dispenses with the Sanskrit names of the poses in favour
of descriptive English. So in one class you will encounter evocatively
named poses such as buttery, swan, dragon and twisted roots.
The reason behind these longer holds involves a short lesson in
anatomy. Our bodies are made up of yang and yin tissues. Muscles are
yang, so in order to be strengthened they must be subject to yang
activity (repetitive movement, creating heat). Shorter holds, dynamic
stretching (eg sun salutations) and running, cycling etc target yang
tissue muscles.
Longer, static holds enable us to access yin tissue fascia and
connective tissue. We need the combination of yang and yin to keep
the joints healthy. Teeth are an example of a very yin part of the body.
If you wanted to change and shape the position of your teeth, you
wouldnt knock or hammer away at them quickly, but rather apply
extremely gentle pressure over a long period of time months or years
(ie bracing).
So what is fascia? Fascia is the buzzword in the anatomy world. For so
long, we were educated in muscles how to stretch them and how to
build them. But our muscles are encased in fascia, a continuous web of
tissue that weaves in and around not only our muscles but also our
organs, nerves and lymph. It is rather like a silk body stocking, only it
is inside our bodies. The whiteish, sometimes glistening bres you see
when you pull a piece of meat apart that is fascia. And to keep it
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