Join Tara for Yin Yoga
Mondays 6-7:15PM, Fridays 5-6:15PM
What is Yin Yoga? It is a calm and meditative yoga practice to balance and ground your energy, enhance your range of motion in the joints, release and nourish deep layers of connective tissues, and bring greater equilibrium to your physical and emotional well being. All Yin postures are practiced seated or lying down while relaxing the muscles, and held for several minutes while focusing your attention on the breath. Yin Yoga goes beneath and in between the muscles to target the dense connective tissues of the body – often in the hips, pelvis, and low back, which can be difficult to open and result in both limited flexibility and stagnant energy. This deep practice is gentle, yet challenging, helping students to regain natural range of motion in the joints, strengthen and mobilize prana / chi / life force energy in the vital organ meridians and cultivate the ability stay present and observe physical and emotional sensations.
Did you know at least half of your mobility, flexibility and ease in movement depends on the connective tissues and joints? The tightness you feel is not just in the muscles. For anyone interested in delving a bit deeper into the denser, hidden layers of the body for a long, relaxed and introspective practice, that will feel like you’ve taken an oil can to the Tin Man, this is an opportunity to try Yin Yoga. If you are a yogi with loads of experience in more Yang style practices, you may be ready for the Yin style where we stay in the postures a little longer, allowing your body and mind to settle, and the edges to soften a bit more. For those new to Yin Yoga, you may be curious about this approach to yoga where you relax in each posture and stay still for a couple of minutes.
Join Tara Castleberry for these 75 minute classes where you can explore new levels of release in the quiet stillness of these long-held poses. Tara will encourage beginners to check in and consider easing out of the postures after the first minute, resting for a bit then going back in to finish the transitional 3-minute hold. Experienced Yin practitioners are invited to stay even longer, up to five minutes, to open to the possibilities of discovering the next edges, while paying close attention to whether that feels appropriate for you.