Yin yoga

[Mercurial123]

I've been doing it for a couple of months as I sprained my ankle and was unable to do Vinyassa. I can't believe what a difference it's made to my practice. My breathing has improved and have noticed my flexibility has gotten so much better. Looking forward to starting my Vinyassa again but I also love to relax in yin. Anyone else feel the same?

I did yin once during a summer workshop. I found it hurt like hell! I was in pigeon pose for 15 minutes!!! I didn't find the sustained hold a 'release,' just sore and tough...each to their own though..good that it works for you.

I adore yin! Where I live there's only a ass once a month, which I always really look forward to. I find it so relaxing and it makes a huge difference to my quality of sleep.

Class! Not ass

Once a month ass! I love it

Is it over a fifteen minute hold is quite extreme. I do online classes with Yoga International and only hold poses for five minutes maximum. I hate pigeon but I have tight hips.

I did wonder about that..I wondered if the workshop I was in was quite extreme. In a 1.5 hour class, we only had time for about 4 poses. We did happy baby pose for 20 minutes. I thought I was going to cry all night! 5 minutes sounds much more doable.

As with any form of yoga, I think much depends on the teacher - I did a few classes when I had a hamstring injury a couple of years ago which were a mixture of yin and restorative and found it ok, but got a bit bored to be honest.

Since then I've been on a couple of 3 hour yin workshops and really surprised myself by loving it - my brain is normally in overdrive and I found I was completely relaxed and calmed and not bored at all. I'd taken classes with this particular teacher before though and have a lot of time for him and his ethics and style of teaching, so I think that was a lot to do with it.

I put music on and treat it as a meditation session. My forward folds have really seen improvement. I know someone who did yin and held frog pose for thirty minutes I don't think I could cope with that.

15 minutes sounds long. I think we do 5 minutes for each pose. And the teacher talks to us while we're in the pose, explaining (in her lovely, soothing voice) how the pose is helping us.

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