YIN YOGA CLASS for the FALL season
Take time to unravel in these poses
spending about 2-5 minutes in each shape. you can taking a counter pose between each pose if you like.
Fall yin Sequence sequence
*lay on your back
use a bolster with a block supporting the top longwise ~ in a modified fish
(knees bent or legs fully long)
*all fours cat cows ~Right and Left circles
*dragon lunge ~ Right and Left
*downward facing dog
*melting heart
*Sphinx
*child’s pose arms forward ~Right and Left side stretch
*Caterpillar pose
*Spinal Twist ~Right and Left
Each season we embrace the changes occurring. We can begin practicing isolating different parts of the body in our yin practice. lighting up meridian lines and working organs we wish to support with the season at hand. One way to view our practice is spending time reducing stress and treating illness in the body.
By way of rebuilding the awareness we once had in relationship between the seasonal changes, our emotions, our health and our lifestyle. When Working against the natural ebb and flow of life it creates unease and imbalance for us all. We practice poses that correlates with the element which for Fall is mental, the Lungs (and Large Intestine). It‘a power is balance and its virtue is justice.
The Lungs transform the air we breath into the oxygen necessary for our bodies to function and the Large Intestine eliminates the waste that our bodies no longer need. According to the classical texts in TCM the Lungs are associated with the emotion of grief, they open into the nose, and are directly connected to the skin and body hair (sweat glands) which are part of our immune system and work very closely with other organs in providing and maintaining a sense of homoeostasis in the body. It is during this time of the year people more likely experience asthma, allergies, colds and flus, develop stress related skin issues, bowel disturbances, depression and anxiety.
The Metal Element, the Lungs and fall are all about transformation. Life is aways changing and we must be willing to work with its natural flow. Metal is the most malleable substance because it can be transformed and re-transformed many times over without ever losing its integrity.
Similar to the valuable and precious minerals and metals that are found deep within the earth, so too can we discover own self worth and value as well as the value in others.
To appreciate the preciousness of each breath and to begin drawing our energies inward to prepare for the longer and colder months ahead. One example given in nature in fall is the trees begin to draw their energy back to their center, and the leaves do a brilliant dance of colour before their final goodbye, metal is associated with the coming and going of life, the end of cycles, the rhythms of the breath and the excretory functions.
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