Personal Yoga Instruction
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserve your love and affection."
~Buddha
Personal Yoga Instruction provides a setting in which your individuality can be completely addressed. Yoga postures or asanas, and breathing exercises are selectively chosen and developed to meet your specific needs.
Learning and practicing postures and breathing exercises at your own pace and within your own range is the most effective way to realize the benefits of yoga. Yoga postures can help dissolve fatigue, stress, and tension as they help improve strength and flexibility.
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Yin Yoga
Yin yang theory is a kind of logic, which views things in relation to its whole. In Chinese Medicine it is a fundamental concept used as the foundation for diagnosis and treatment. Yin and yang can used to describe everything in the world.
Yang is associated with energetic qualities. For example, movement, outward and upward direction, heat, brightness, stimulation, activity and excitement are all yang qualities. Yin, on the other hand, is associated with the physical form of an object and has less energetic qualities such as rest, inward and downward direction, cold, darkness, condensation, inhibition, and nourishment.
With this theory in mind, different yoga styles and practices can then be defined as either yin or yang. For example, yang-style yoga would be a more active form, which would targets yang tissues, such as muscles, which are elastic and love to be moved rhythmically and repetitively. Muscular (yang) styles of yoga emphasize movement, with brief holding poses, that produce internal heat and the lengthening and contracting of our muscles to build strength and endurance. Yin Yoga complements the yang-style by primarily targeting the denser, more plastic, connective tissues (fascia, ligaments, bones and joints) of the hips, thighs, pelvis and lower spine (and, to a lesser degree, the neck and shoulders), normally not exercised in an active asana practice. This style promotes the full range of motion in the joints so that their mobility is not lost to fixation and adhesion.
The postures in Yin Yoga are held from one to twenty minutes in order to relieve pain and chronic tension by rehabilitating connective tissue. It is in this connective tissue, which surrounds muscles, blood vessels and nerves, that the meridians are thought to be found. Therefore, the passive long held poses of yin yoga can target specific meridians and stimulate qi. Through different sequences of poses, the meridians can be balanced and the health of the body improved.
Group instruction is offered at Wellspring Holistic Center. For more information, go to www.WellspringHolisticCenter.com or call 570-421-3708.