15 Facts About Yin Yoga

Yin Yoga is slow-paced style of yoga as exercise, incorporating principles of traditional Chinese medicine, with asanas that are held for longer periods of time than in other styles.

Yin Yoga poses apply moderate stress to the connective tissues of the body—the tendons, fasciae, and ligaments—with the aim of increasing circulation in the joints and improving flexibility.

Yin Yoga was founded in the late 1970s by martial arts expert and Taoist yoga teacher Paulie Zink.

Yin Yoga is taught across North America and Europe, encouraged by its teachers Paul Grilley and Sarah Powers.

Yin Yoga later called this synthesis "Yin and Yang yoga, " or "Yin Yoga" for short.

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Yin Yoga related these to the parallel concepts of the nadi pathways and chakras of Indian yoga, and the prana said to be carried within them.

Grilley began to teach a fusion of the Yin poses he had learned from Zink with hatha yoga and anatomy, and the teachings of Motoyama.

Yin Yoga created yin sequences with aims similar to that of an acupuncturist.

Yin Yoga's incorporated Buddhist psychology and put more emphasis on targeting the meridian systems for health and enlightenment.

Yin Yoga's emphasized a conscious and systematic approach to breathing during yin practice.

Yin Yoga is based on the Taoist concepts of yin and yang, opposite and complementary principles in nature.

Yin Yoga could be described as stable, immobile, feminine, passive, cold, and downward moving.

Yin Yoga employs specific sequences of poses to stimulate particular meridians, or subtle channels, as understood in Traditional Chinese Medicine; these are the equivalent of the nadi channels in hatha yoga.

In contrast, Yin Yoga sessions taught by Grilley and Powers consist of a series of long-held, passive floor poses that primarily affect the lower part of the body—the hips, pelvis, inner thighs, lower spine—about 18 to 24 in number.

Caterpillar pose, the Yin version of Paschimottanasana: in Yin Yoga, poses are held for an average of five minutes to improve flexibility and restore a fuller range of motion.