Yin Yoga

. Place your hands on your knees with the palms facing up.
2. Exhale and close the palms and make soft fists.
3. Open the right hand and inhale through the right side: at the end of the exhale, hold the

we first need a good understanding of our inherent nature (prakriti), and then an awareness of our vrikriti, so that through our yoga practice we can address the imbalances of our living to bring us into perfect balance and perfect health.

our current circumstances and daily life do not “fit” us—if our vrikriti does not match our prakriti—this imbalance will create disharmony and disease on all levels of our being: mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual. Therefore,

Tantra is committed to the idea that we are all part of a larger whole. Thus, in concert with all other beings, we ourselves are responsible for the world we inhabit. Together we create and maintain it.

Dark
Bright
Feminine
Masculine
Low

The Inner Workings of Yoga
Some examples of yin and yang:
Cool
Heat
Night
Day
Expanding
Contracting
Subtle
Apparent
Earth
Sky
Autumn
Spring

Yin is a quiet, more modest form of practice, where we want the muscles to relax to increase circulation in the connective tissue, joints, and organs and to cultivate the ability to yield and observe and accept what is in the present moment.

Within the body, the relatively stiff connective tissue (tendons, ligaments, fascia) is yin, while the pliant and mobile muscles and blood are yang. Applied to yoga, a passive practice is yin, whereas most of today’s Hatha yoga practices are yang; t

Yin can be described as stable, immobile, feminine, passive, cold, and downward moving. Yang is depicted as changing, mobile, masculine, active, hot, and upward moving. In nature, a mountain could be described as yin; the ocean, as yang.