The difference between YIN YOGA and RESTORATIVE YOGA
Nowadays, more and more people are suffering from chronic stress, due to the quality of our everyday life dropping. Yoga overall can help with this, especially through its gentle, slow and mindful practices, like Restorative or Yin Yoga. But are these practices similar or rather different? And if so, in what do the differences consist of?
Yin Yoga and TCM: Summer & Late Summer season- elements, organs and emotions
Yin Yoga in the summer, with its longer holds and stretch of the deeper connective tissues, can immensely help balance the season's Yang energy with a more grounding and introspective approach as well as a deeper connection to the body's natural rhythm, so it is recommended to do more Yin flows or slower gentle practices during this season than any other.
Yoga and shadow work
The deeper we go into all the layers of a Yoga journey, the more we are bound to be confronted with both our light and shadow aspects of ourselves, a true rollercoaster of inner experiences. Like the relation between Yin and Yang, light and shadow, day and night, so our relation to life and Yoga can change or incorporate a duality, between idealization and disillusionment.
Trauma-informed Yoga in today's world
Yoga can support trauma healing by helping students reconnect with their bodies through asana, breathwork and meditation. If people start to become more attuned to their inner sensations, they could build more tolerance for physical experiences and develop healthier responses.
Exploring Savasana
Savasana, meant to represent a surrendering and grounding practice, incorporated in all styles of Yoga, is considered by many as the hardest pose, although it implies total stillness and it looks easy from the outside. That is because relaxation is not something that appears on demand, it is something that can or may not happen. Often, the 5-10 minutes of Savasana in the end of the class are meant to be as a conclusion of the class, as if the purpose of all the postures would be to prepare the body to be able to sit still and rest and in the end, to be able to meditate beyond any physical sensation or discomfort.
Best time for your Yoga routine
What is the best time for your Yoga practice? Is it worth building your Yoga practice routine around the time you are having most of your energy? How effective is having a Yoga routine or schedule?
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