Yin Yoga & Meditation | Week 1 - Grounding

THE ART OF LETTING GO 

What are the benefits of Yin Yoga & Meditation? 

• Boost immunity as you unblock energy to increase vitality and health.  
• Release tension to experience calm and relaxation.
• Increase your capacity and flexibility on the physical, mental and emotional levels.
• Create the habit of mindfulness.
• Build resilience; with every breath, we can begin again.
• Cultivate a sense of spaciousness in your heart, body, mind and soul.

The Three Tattvas of Yin Yoga Practice:

A tattva is the reality of a thing, or its category or principal nature. 

1. Come into the pose to an appropriate depth ("playing our edges").
2. Resolve to remain still.
3. Hold the pose for a time.

               --Sarah Powers

Remembering these three principles as you practice will simplify everything. 

Seated meditation 5 minutes

"We can always begin again. No matter what happens, no matter how long it's been, no matter how far from our aspirations we may have strayed, we can always begin again." 

~ Sharon Salzberg

June 1
 Legs up the wall 5-10 minutes

In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities, 
in the expert's mind there are few. 

~ Shunryu Suzuki

June 2
 Dangling with support 1-3 minutes

Deep peace of the running wave to you.

Deep peace of the flowing air to you.

Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.

Deep peace of the shining stars to you.

Deep peace of the infinite peace to you.

~ A gaelic blessing

June 3
Caterpillar 1-3 minutes

"Pathmaker, there is no path;

You make the path by walking, 

By walking you make the path."

~ Antonio Machado

June 4
Wide legged child's pose 1-3 minutes

"Constant busyness has no absence in it, 
no openness to the arrival of a new season, 
no birdsong at the start of its day."

~ David Whyte

June 5
Bananasana 1-3 minutes for each side

"When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home to yourself and learn to rest within. Thoughts are our inner senses. Infused with silence and solitude, they bring out the mystery of inner landscape"

~ John O'Dohonue

Belly facing down shavasana  5 minutes

"As I walk, as I walk

The universe is walking with me

In beauty it walks before me

In beauty it walks behind me

In beauty it walks below me

In beauty it walks above me

Beauty is on every side."

As I walk with beauty, A Traditional Navajo Prayer

May you be happy, safe, healthy and live with ease,

Tehroma