Gently lower your knees out to the sides of your mat, resting them onto the props and adjusting their position and height as needed. Once comfortable here, bring a bend into the knees, soles of feet come together for butterfly shape. Leave a small gap between your lower back and the bolster, and then slowly lower yourself down onto the bolster. Rest a block on either side of your mat half way down (these can be swapped for cushions or pillows).
#A YIN YOGA SEQUENCE ANXIETY FREE#
Feel free to add a folded towel or blanket, or even a block under the far end of the bolster to elevate your head a little if desired. Lay your bolster behind you runnng parallel to the direction of your yoga mat. We start the practice in Reclined Butterfly. The practice becomes about something so much more magical than simply the shapes. It is then in thee moments of stillness, surrendering to what is, rather than trying to shape or control the moment, that transformation begisn to happen. We invite ourselves into a shape, find stillness, relax the muscles, slow down our breath and witness our thoughts begin to also slow downĪ mantra that I like to add to my classes as a reminder to my students is:Īn invitation to be witness to just you and your breath, this moment in time and nothing more.
Yin offers us this beautiful chance to meet ourselves exactly where we are, moment by moment, shape by shape. Using your Jing as your back up power source means that the rate of its natural decline speeds up, especially if you have been working long hours, or leading a stressful lifestyle or neglecting your diet. In that sense you might think of Jing as being similar to the back up battery that automatically jumps into action if the electricity supply to your phone or computer cuts out temporarily. In times of need, your stored bank of Jing acts as a form of back-up energy for your primary power source, the life force called Qi, which we extract from the air we breathe and the food and drink that we consume. Jing is a form of life force energy that is with us in finite quantities from the time we are conceived, but naturally declines as we get older. Then creating an imbalance in our healthy functioning of the organ and other organs affected by Kidney, and inevitably makes us experience even more fear! A catch 22 situation. Letting the mind get lost in worrying or being fearless about the future or analyzing would could go wrong, or things that we have no control over would create a deficiency in our Kidney Chi. Overwork, stress, poor lifestyle choices can all weaken kidney essence. This essence after birth controls growth, sexual maturation, fertility and developmentĪll healthy practices like yoga, healthy diet, rest and balance will help to replenish this essence. The essence of the kidneys is a precious substance, which is, believed in TCM to be, inherited from our parents and also partly replenished by the Qi extracted from nutritious foods. They are also a storehouse of our vital energy and need to remain balanced for all of the other organs to function well. The kidney’s primary function is the storage of our essence, governing birth and growth, reproduction and development. Let’s explore a little about our Kidney Energy first! Our Vital Energy
These organs are considered in Chinese Medicine to be the foundations of Yin and Yang balance for all of the other organs. This sequence is dedicated to finding balance in our Kidney and Urinary Bladder meridian lines. As life is always in flux and everything is temporary, then our mission becomes one of tuning in regularly, and working our practice into being one of a lifetime of awareness. Then choosing to live a life that allows you to calmly make you way back into a state of balance. The practice then has to start with self awareness, and being able to take moments to pause and notive that we are indeed moving away from center. Long term chronic stress can have sad consequences for our mental and physical well-being. When we spend more time in sympathetic (fight or flight) nervous system than parasympathetic (rest and nourish) we can find ourselves living with chronic stress. Things to think about, to do, to achieve, to strive for, deadlines to meet, places to get to which often can serve as stessors. There are constantly distractions of some form or another. We live in a busy world in modern society Rebalancing is the return to center and good health. Since life is forever changing, existence is never static, what is yin and what is yang are always changing too. In TCM we have a thing called “The Dao” as described so beautifully in the quote above.Īnytime we move away from our center we take on aspects of yin or yang. The center is always there, even if we are not always there to enjoy it.” “The tranquility found in the center of all events, and the path leading to the center.
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