Return your physical, mental, and emotional selves to balance through yin yoga and its calming, healing approach.
Yin yoga offers a remedy to the stress and hustle of your busy yang life. By concentrating on restorative poses that target your deeper fascia and connective tissues, you’ll experience increased flexibility and improved joint health. Yin yoga also focuses on deep breathing and longer hold times, allowing you the time and space to clear your mind and enhance your mental acuity. These meditative poses will help you attain a renewed sense of mindfulness and physical well-being, making them the perfect complement to an active yang lifestyle and helping bring you back into balance.
Yin Yoga assists you in this endeavor through the following:
• More than 50 step-by-step poses that focus on specific areas of the body
• 20 sequences linking the poses, designed to help readers reach specific physical, mental, or emotional goals
• Introductory information on the basic techniques and philosophies behind yin yoga, including correct breathing techniques, chakras and meridians, and how best to practice yin yoga
Author(s): Kassandra Reinhardt
Publisher: DK Publishers
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 194
4 Contents......Page 6
6 Welcome to yin yoga......Page 8
10 What is yin yoga?......Page 12
12 Why do yin yoga?......Page 14
14 What are chakras?......Page 16
16 What are meridians?......Page 18
18 Breathing techniques......Page 20
20 What do you need?......Page 22
22 How do you practice?......Page 24
24 Seated meditation......Page 26
28 Square......Page 30
30 Reclining leg stretch 1......Page 32
32 Reclining leg stretch 2......Page 34
34 Reclining leg stretch 3......Page 36
36 Squat......Page 38
38 Toe squat......Page 40
40 IT band stretch......Page 42
42 Neck release......Page 44
44 Ankle stretch......Page 46
48 Caterpillar......Page 50
50 Butterfly......Page 52
52 Half butterfly......Page 54
54 Reclined butterfly......Page 56
56 Lying chest opener......Page 58
58 Lying quad stretch......Page 60
60 Lying spinal twist......Page 62
62 Saddle......Page 64
64 Archer arms......Page 66
68 Knee to chest......Page 70
70 Wrist flexor stretch......Page 72
72 Wrist extensor stretch......Page 74
74 Sphinx......Page 76
76 Seal......Page 78
78 Side seal......Page 80
80 Banana......Page 82
82 Straddle......Page 84
84 Dangling......Page 86
88 Snail......Page 90
90 Baby dragon......Page 92
92 Twisted dragon......Page 94
94 Dragon flying low......Page 96
96 Winged dragon......Page 98
98 Supported bridge......Page 100
100 Eagle arms......Page 102
102 Happy baby......Page 104
104 Thread the needle......Page 106
108 Bowtie......Page 110
110 Deer......Page 112
112 Swan......Page 114
114 Seated swan......Page 116
116 Sleeping swan......Page 118
118 Child's pose......Page 120
120 Reclined child's pose......Page 122
122 Cat pulling its tail......Page 124
124 Supported fish......Page 126
128 Melting heart......Page 130
130 Legs up the wall......Page 132
132 Shoelace......Page 134
134 Reclined shoelace......Page 136
136 Reverse prayer arms......Page 138
138 Frog......Page 140
140 Half monkey......Page 142
142 Monkey......Page 144
144 Corpse......Page 146
148 Pre-workout stretch......Page 150
150 Beginner sequence......Page 152
152 Improving your digestion......Page 154
154 Improving your sleep......Page 156
156 Improving your energy......Page 158
158 Intermediate sequence......Page 160
160 Neck & shoulder tension relief......Page 162
162 Lower-back tension relief......Page 164
164 Upper-back tension relief......Page 166
166 Advanced sequence......Page 168
168 Relieving stress......Page 170
170 Alleviating sciatica pain......Page 172
172 Increasing hamstring flexibility......Page 174
174 Full-body sequence......Page 176
176 Side-body sequence......Page 178
178 Increasing hip flexibility......Page 180
180 Improving your posture......Page 182
182 Prenatal sequence......Page 184
184 Chakra opener......Page 186
186 Opening your heart......Page 188
188 Index......Page 190
192 About the author/ Acknowledgments......Page 194
